It's about time

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While I don't want to minimize the horror of the Catholic priest sexual abuse crisis, I was satisfied to see a report about how sexual abuse in schools is prevalent and school leaders covered it up just like the bishops did. Now percentagewise the rates are, at this stage of the investigation, not even close to the numbers seen in the clergy, although that might increase. But I knew back when the whole Scandal broke that the media was being rather selective in who it covered, that Catholic priests were not the only molesters, and that Catholic bishops weren't the only ones guilty of covering sex abuse up. It seemed as if they wanted us to believe that; whether it was an actual deliberate, malicious omission is hard to say. But maybe this issue with teachers will get more play and there will be some balance.

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I the AP report yesterday. What irritated me was the lack of any statistics on the ratio. Everyone agrees that every district has had one, or that every school has had one, but that isn't a very good benchmark.

When I was a middle school student, there were rumors about one teacher. When I was a high school teacher, I learned after the fact that a colleague in the math department was having relations with a student. (Probably more than one, but at least one for certain.) A couple of years ago I stumbled across a weblog of some sort where some English majors were bragging about how their relations with their professors advanced their careers by giving them more opportunity to gain insights. It's a strange world.

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