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To: LarryLied
Not only could you do a service for FreeRepublic, you could write an article for the media that shares the service.

I clicked on your name, and read the list of "teacher-sexual abuse" articles. Have you done a Google search, or whatever, that would provide context? In other words, what percentage of the universe of public school teachers were arrested for child sexual abuse over the last year? How does that compare with the percentage of Catholic priests arrested for the same thing over the same period?

You might be more than halfway to being able to answer these questions. And if you're using Google search, you could throw in the porportion of Boy Scout leaders, as well. From anecdotal evidence, I feel certain that the risk of sexual child abuse will be highest for public school teachers, middle for priests, and lowest for Scout leaders.

But on this point, to get it published in some part of the lamestream media, anecdotal evidence is worthless. Hard, supportable numbers are what is required.

Congressman Billybob

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16 posted on 05/10/2002 4:04:29 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
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To: Congressman Billybob
The 125+ links on my profile are all Free Republic posts except one. That is what I've run across without searching google. Imagine how many more there are. For about two months, I did do a news search on "teacher" several times a week. Ran across one to three cases a week. My guess is what is going on in government schools is worse than what we are seeing in the Church.
20 posted on 05/10/2002 4:41:30 PM PDT by LarryLied
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