Given the roughly 50 million students in U.S. K-12 schools each year, the number of students who have been victims of sexual misconduct by school employees is probably in the millions each decade, according to multiple studies. Such numbers would far exceed the high-profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.
For a variety of reasons, ranging from embarrassment to eagerness to avoid liability, elected or appointed officials, along with unions or lobbying groups representing school employees, have fought to keep the truth hidden from the public.
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“I think we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg,” Oregon attorney Peter Janci told RealClear-Investigations. “There has been a lot of abuse that happened in schools, and there are more coming forward every day as public education and the sentiment to support victims has grown.”
Janci won a $3.5 million settlement against the St. Helens School District in March, the highest figure yet awarded in Oregon in a case involving sexual misconduct by school employees. He said that case and many others reflect years of shifting ideas about how victims of sexual misconduct are perceived and a growing awareness of the scale of the problem.
“Historically, there weren’t as many cases because of the stigma and because the deck was stacked against the victims,” Janci said. “Often we see this time lag where the victims have been struggling with what happened, and the biggest change now is kids are coming forward. Nationally, this trend is just now hitting the K-12 public school sector with the same force.”
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This has been known by the teachers' unions and the Department of Education for, at least, since 1980, probably before.
You know, once all the leftist teachers took over in the K-12 schools.
There are whole buildings in NYFC occupied by teachers that have committed sex acts against children and not been fired but been warehoused until they retire.
Home school or private school i better
The word went out among the LBGT+ people several decades ago that teaching was the career path to go in to. Not only was it a public employee gig with all the bennies associated with that scam (guaranteed job security ... when was the last time a public school was shuttered for bankruptcy?, health care, union-negotiated pay increases, retirement savings) and working only 9 months a year, but it allowed them mostly unsupervised access to children for grooming.
Every classroom needs to be monitored with cctv cameras and access to that live feed given to parents of children in that classroom. Teachers need to be observed and supervised, as they have collectively proven that they are not trustworthy.
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