Regards, Ivan
Posted on 07/17/2004 5:31:48 PM PDT by MadIvan
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Well. . . 
This cannot be true! I thought only Catholic priests were sexually abusive to children!
Regards, Ivan
I'm sure the media - who had barely concealed orgasms every time they reported Catholic church molestations (which was nowhere near 10%) - will be all over this story.
Not.
What a name for a sex-abuse researcher!
I can think of 2 cases in my schooling. I graduated from a public high school in Washington State in 1999. I am not going to include the teachers' names, just the first initials.
In one case, an eighth-grade teacher, Mr. M., made sexually suggestive comments to a female student (he told her she had a nice a**). The student filed a complaint, but nothing ever came of it.
Second case, I heard about by rumor after I graduated, that one of my high school English teachers, Ms. F., had been fired for inappropriate contact with a male student.
I had a French teacher in HS that could have abused me at her whim. Sadly no such luck. C'est la vie.
This happens all the time, but is never followed up in public schools. And on those rare occasions that complaints are taken seriously, the teacher in question is simply suspended with pay or transferred to work at the Bd. of Ed.
This used to happen all the time in NYC, and 110 Livingstone Street (until recently, the headquarters of the system) seems to have been populated mainly by child molesters and a few crooks who had dipped into their school's petty cash fund, since the union made it impossible to fire them.
Statistically, btw, public school teachers are way over the Catholic clergy. But the press loves public schools and hates the Catholic Church, so guess which gets the most coverage.
Fear for your children.
ARM CHILDREN
Homeschool your children.
The Sexual Review Study, published by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops earlier this year, found that, over the last fifty years, 4500 priests were involved in some 10,000 incidents of sexual abuse. That's 4500 out of 46,000 priests.
That's right at 10%.
I am definitely homeschooling if I end up getting married.
My husband and I plan on homeschooling also.
I was never molested in school...but I was kinda of homely.
I heard Rush laughing about the name. But it's an old English name, related to 'Shakespeare' I think. Just being technical here.
I have a problem with this.
The perameters used in this 'research' are too wide.
What is a harmless comment/joke to one, could be construed to be an offensive comment/joke to a hyper-sensitive parent hearing it 'second hand'?
The research should be based on pysical sexual abuse and child rape to be accurate, IMO. Or reports of repeated harrassment.
I don't condone ANY sort of sexual innuendo in the schoolroom, BUT, I live in Ireland where there isn't such an uptight politically correct agenda in day to day living either.
James Dobson said back in 1986 that pedophilia was the next taboo to fall after homosexuality, and that the same tactics would be used that were used to mainstream homosexuality.
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