The Priest is not the “pope’s priest” unless he is in the diocese of Rome.
No, I am saying simply that sexual offenders in the priesthood are rarer both in numbers and per capita than among the teacher’s in the public schools. Among the Protestant clergy, the numbers are about he same. But my point is that there is no effort to blame the public schools for their handling of sex cases. Your assumption that they are organizationally independent is true, but their method of handling sexual offenders was to let them leave town. More often than not, they ended up working for some other school district. Meanwhile the teacher’s personnel file had been purged, and usually all the information that a potential employer could get was that yes, he had worked for the school for x numbers of years. His contract had/had not been renewed. Seldom were the cops called in, because they didn’t want to be involved. Everyone wanted to avoid scandal. A lot of the time, sex was consensual. The girl was underage, the teacher older, but no rape was involved. Much has changed since the country got much excited by the priest scandal. A school district gets good publicity for keeping the kids “safe.’
Teachers are just regular people, there are millions and millions of people working as teachers, including every kind of regular Joe, from atheist to Muslim, to homosexual, to lesbian, to Scientologist, to Catholic, to Buddhist, to Druid, to Witch, to Satan worshiper, to the merely indifferent, it is a common, secular job.
Priests are the handpicked, spiritual leaders of ONLY the Catholic denomination, and number about 39,000, close to a million teachers probably call them “father”, and confess their sins to them to varying degrees and frequency.
Your efforts to justify something that should not be defended are just strange and unrelated to the topic.