[OLD REGGIE]

The Dallas Morning News has recently been reporting on the number of sex offenses by school teachers , more than 600 cases in which the districts covered the offenses and passed the offenders on to other school districts. For some reason this has not made the national publications, although what is true in Texas, it probably is true elsewhere. Maybe when someone sues a district for $100 million and wins?

What's your point? Are you claiming the institutional coverup by the RCC hierarchy is ok? That it should be ignored? That the RCC should be held to the same moral standards as the general public?

[SoothingDave]

What's your point? Are you claiming the institutional coverup by the RCC hierarchy is ok? That it should be ignored? That the RCC should be held to the same moral standards as the general public?

Who peed in your Wheaties? Do they even make generic Wheaties? I've never seen any.

The point is not to claim that such behavior is "OK" (and you know better than that.) The point is that we need to see how the media plays up this same exact failure among the schools, who are the darlings of the media versus how they played it against the Church, whom they generally despise.

You should examine why you react in this way. Why don't you take a portion of your vitriol and direct it at the schools who seemed to do the same thing, instead of firing more at the Catholics?

SD

[RobbyS]

It suggests that the problem is not necessarily tied to
celibacy. It also suggests that there was a lot of piling on. Personally I am angry at the bishops because their standards seem no higher than those of the public schools. After all, the vocation of a priest is to be a saint. Having been a teachers' union rep for more than 10 years, I am only too aware that this is a very complicated mess. Yes, lots of teachers betray their trust; Yes, lots of students falsely accuse their teachers. Administrators generally want to take the easy way out, and care little about justice. But why should they? The public is totally unaware that public school administration is a form of appointive politics. Superintendents and principals are "pols" and they will act like any other pol when trouble comes. A few will deal with it; most will punt.