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To: Phil Magnan

We are told how this scandal represents a coordinated conspiracy of silence and a collective guilt of the institution.

However every incident of a public school teacher molesting children is taken as a “singular” scandal, it isn’t taken to reflect on the nation’s public school system as whole or even upon a local district or school.

Also, Planned Parenthood’s policy is to ignore laws that required caregivers who “suspect” child abuse to report it to authorities. They enable the adult men impregnating minor girls and shielding the abuse from the girl’s parents.


2 posted on 07/18/2007 7:38:57 AM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: weegee
However every incident of a public school teacher molesting children is taken as a “singular” scandal, it isn’t taken to reflect on the nation’s public school system as whole or even upon a local district or school.

Know if any school moved a teacher to a different school after they've been accused?

3 posted on 07/18/2007 7:44:14 AM PDT by GoLightly
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To: weegee
However every incident of a public school teacher molesting children is taken as a “singular” scandal, it isn’t taken to reflect on the nation’s public school system as whole or even upon a local district or school.

The reason why the scandal was taken to reflect poorly on Mother Church was because many high ranking bishops, instead of removing the offending priests, simply transfered them to other parishes, kept them in contact with children, and even covered up their abominations! Not only that, the Holy Father refused to depose such bishops even after learning of their actions. That was the real scandal, not the fact that some priests were abusers.

Put another way, the scandal reflects poorly on the Church because her bishops failed to act, possibly with the blessing of Rome, when it was in their power to stop the abuse.

If you want to apply the analogy to school districts, imagine what would happen if a school superintendant knew that certain teachers were abusers, but failed to remove them, and instead merely moved them to other schools, keeping them in contact with children and doing everything in his power to cover up their actions. If ever something like this came to light, it would cause just as big an outcry as the priest sex abuse scandal, and it would be taken as reflecting on the nation's public school system.

6 posted on 07/18/2007 11:07:56 AM PDT by curiosity
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