Posted on 08/25/2022 5:42:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the social hierarchy of prison inmates, mob bosses, bank robbers, and cop killers tend to get respect. But “short eyes,” those convicts who have committed crimes against children, especially sexual abuse, are hated, harassed, and abused. In schools, however, this group of detestable perverts rates a “meh.”
The numbers are stunning. A report prepared for the U.S. Department of Education in 2004 revealed that nearly 9.6 percent of students are victims of sexual abuse by school personnel, and these are just the reported cases.
Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct & Exploitation (SESAME), a nonprofit that works to stop childhood sexual abuse by teachers and other school employees, disclosed that in 2015, about 3.5 million 8th-11th grade students, or nearly 7 percent of those surveyed divulged that they had experienced “physical sexual contact from an adult” (most often a teacher or coach). The type of physical contact ranged from “unwanted touching of their body, all the way up to sexual intercourse.” Even worse, the statistic increases to about 4.5 million children (10 percent) when other types of sexual misconduct are taken into consideration, such as being shown pornography or being subjected to sexually explicit language or exhibitionism. SESAME also explains that one child sex offender can have as many as 73 victims in a lifetime.
One might assume that these disgusting perverts would be rounded up, fired, and incarcerated, but all too often, that doesn’t happen. Most recently, Eric Burgess, a high school English teacher in Rosemead, CA was found to have repeatedly groomed students for sex, and had sexual relationships with female students over a 20-year period. Infuriatingly, he was allowed to resign without admitting to any wrongdoing and continued to receive his salary for another six months. The settlement agreement bars Burgess from working in the school district, but he can be employed elsewhere, and district officials agreed to provide a “content neutral” reference if he applies for a teaching job in another district.
On a personal level, I taught middle school with “Roy” in the 1990s. One day, this 8th-grade English teacher allegedly touched a female student inappropriately. There were witnesses, but the student involved would not press charges so he was sent off to the district office for a while—the so-called “rubber room” or “teacher jail.” Since firing him was not a viable option, the powers-that-be then decided to transfer him to another school, where he was accused of fondling another student. So he was sent back to the district office, where he whittled away his paid time ogling porn. Busted, he was transferred to yet another school, where he got caught sharing his smut with some of his female students. He was then returned to the district office, where the last I heard, he was waiting for his next assignment, courtesy of his union lawyer.
Perhaps the poster boy for perversity is Mark Berndt. This Los Angeles Unified School District teacher was arrested in 2012 for feeding semen-laced cookies to his second graders. Perhaps not as well-known is that his obscene antics began in 1983, when he was accused of (and admitted to) dropping his pants during a class trip, which he blamed on the fact that he wore “baggy shorts.” In the 1990s many students came forward and said that Berndt would masturbate in class. Then in 2010, investigators from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department came into possession of some of Berndt’s photos, which showed children gagged and bound, “sometimes with live cockroaches on their faces or about to eat a cookie covered in a clear white liquid.” The school district couldn’t get rid of him without going through a lengthy appeals process costing over $300,000. When his crimes were fully exposed, Berndt gamed the system by accepting a $40,000 bribe and retiring—but only after racking up another year of credit toward his pension, before finally starting a lengthy prison sentence. The various lawsuits against the Los Angeles Unified School District over Berndt alone cost the district some $200 million. When added to four other sexual abuse cases in LA, the cost to the district: $300 million.
A big part of the problem in Los Angeles and elsewhere lies with the teacher union-mandated labyrinthine collective bargaining agreements that must be followed before a dismissal is finalized. The expensive process is so laborious that many administrators don’t even bother trying to navigate it. Additionally, because about 95 percent of educator sexual misconduct cases are handled internally and not turned over to law enforcement, it is very easy for a teacher to go to a new school district or state without any legal baggage....
How do parents do anything without becoming “Domestic Extremists”?
As Willie Sutton, RIP, once said in answer to ‘WHY DO YOU ROB BANKS?, “Because that’s where the money is.”.............
A building full of children. Target rich environment.
Homeschool your kids.
“A report prepared for the U.S. Department of Education in 2004 revealed that nearly 9.6 percent of students are victims of sexual abuse by school personnel, and these are just the reported cases.”
BS
1 in 10 children have NOT had their wee-wee’s played with by their teachers. Just pointing out reality.
So, where do the lawyers line up to sue?
Keep a low profile, plan carefully, deceide what the punishment should be, and then take the law into your own hands. This is your kids we’re talking about.
Nothing but pedophiles and student mass shooters. The public schools are crap institutions full of political RAT union hacks posing as “teachers”. Time to defund those RAT holes and place the kids in real school. Teaching fake American history and sexual deviant crap. They are disgusting.
How true. Anywhere there are children gathered the vultures will soon begin circling. Schools, churches, athletic sports, Boy Scouts.
Then they find their best chance to get at the kids is to work from the inside, so they become teachers, bible students, counselors. When caught the public will then accuse the organizations for allowing them in.
Had a teacher named Macdonald in high school who took off with a freshman girl to a hotel. Somehow cops got wind of it, and found him and arrested him.
The joke going g around school was “WTch out for the Big Mac attack “
His wife was a teacher too, and she was devastated but got a lot of support from the kids and other teachers. She kept working- but must have been tough for her.
SPJNK.
If this perv was teaching in Florida DeSantis would fire him - then take on the Union. No one has to put up with this crap - hire a Governor with a backbone.
Florida has a teacher problem as well: https://naughtyteacherlist.com/tag/florida/
Here is the accurate data:
This analysis (Shakeshaft, 2003) indicates that 9.6 percent of all students in grades 8 to 11 report contact and/or noncontact educator sexual misconduct that was unwanted. 8.7 percent report only noncontact sexual misconduct and 6.7 percent experienced only contact misconduct...Based on the assumption that the AAUW surveys accurately represent the experiences of all K-12 students, more than 4.5 million students are subject to sexual misconduct by an employee of a school sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade.
Check out this thread - SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN THE CLASSROOM: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
We can stop prioritizing the comfort of adults, over the safety of children. Why do school employees sexually abuse and exploit students?Because they CAN.
This was the only comprehensive research I could find, and it's 18-years old. This is stunning: such a huge problem and it's getting no academic research. This is probably due to an unspoken blackballing that'd happen to academics who shine light on this grotesque underbelly of education.
Other posts on this subject include this Ted Talk about Stopping Sexual Abuse by School Employees stating that 5.7 million students have faced sexual abuse from school employees across all 50 states in America and this article on how predatory teachers stay on the job.
The recent groomer sensation has (finally) riled up people, and the trans and same-sex dimension has been the magnet. Fair enough, and while same-sex educator-student abuse at about 30% of instances is higher vs this group's composition in society, opposite sex educator-student abuse at 70%+ of all misconduct remains in the majority.
Favorably, homeschooling is on the ascent.
Plus insane discipline 'rules' based on WOKE ideology - bias in favor of a small number of black out-of-control students at the expense of students of all other races (including black students).
Plus nutty WOKE school board members.
All can be reversed - but DeSantis definitely has his work cut out for him.
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Soon we will not be permitted to call them pedophiles. They are coming to be known as “minor-attracted persons (maps)” Reducing stigma you see, which is a social justice issue. Ultimately “maps” will be a protected class. Watch you kids closely.
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