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A disturbing facet of the teacher sexual misconduct reported in the series is that there often is no way to keep predators from moving from school to school. And, victims of the predators are often not believed when reporting abuse.
- Teacher Charged With With Kidnapping, Child Abuse And Contributing To The Delinquency Of A Minor
Authorities were searching on Thursday for a 13-year-old boy and a female middle school teacher believed to be on the run after police began investigating an alleged intimate relationship between the pair. Kelsey Peterson, 25, a sixth-grade teacher...
- Somehow We Must Find A Way To Safeguard Children While Insuring That Witch Hunts Do Not Occur
The AP did a series on teachers who were guilty of sexual misconduct this week. While this is a serious issue with dire ramafacations for all involved, I think we need to keep in mind that only a small percentage of teachers are sexual predators. Unfortunately...
- Teacher Sex Abuse Scars Family, Town
AP reporters in every state and the District of Columbia identified 2,570 teachers who were punished for sexual misconduct from 2001 to 2005 alone, for actions that ranged from fondling to viewing child pornography to rape. Though experts who deal with...
- An Overlooked Blight On Our Education System.
Most of the abuse never gets reported. Those cases reported often end with no action. Cases investigated sometimes can't be proven, and many abusers have several victims. And no one - not the schools, not the courts, not the state or federal governments...
- Public School Has Explicit Sex Lesson
At Wolcott School in Thornton, Ill. a health teacher made 8th graders read aloud explicit questions about oral sex and masturbation during a sex-education lesson at a suburban school this week, outraging parents who demanded the teacher be disciplined....
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No way to keep predators from moving from school to school
A disturbing facet of the teacher sexual misconduct reported in the series is that there often is no way to keep predators from moving from school to school. And, victims of the predators are often not believed when reporting abuse.
- Teacher Charged With With Kidnapping, Child Abuse And Contributing To The Delinquency Of A Minor
Authorities were searching on Thursday for a 13-year-old boy and a female middle school teacher believed to be on the run after police began investigating an alleged intimate relationship between the pair. Kelsey Peterson, 25, a sixth-grade teacher...
- Somehow We Must Find A Way To Safeguard Children While Insuring That Witch Hunts Do Not Occur
The AP did a series on teachers who were guilty of sexual misconduct this week. While this is a serious issue with dire ramafacations for all involved, I think we need to keep in mind that only a small percentage of teachers are sexual predators. Unfortunately...
- Teacher Sex Abuse Scars Family, Town
AP reporters in every state and the District of Columbia identified 2,570 teachers who were punished for sexual misconduct from 2001 to 2005 alone, for actions that ranged from fondling to viewing child pornography to rape. Though experts who deal with...
- An Overlooked Blight On Our Education System.
Most of the abuse never gets reported. Those cases reported often end with no action. Cases investigated sometimes can't be proven, and many abusers have several victims. And no one - not the schools, not the courts, not the state or federal governments...
- Public School Has Explicit Sex Lesson
At Wolcott School in Thornton, Ill. a health teacher made 8th graders read aloud explicit questions about oral sex and masturbation during a sex-education lesson at a suburban school this week, outraging parents who demanded the teacher be disciplined....