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Amnesty International is outraged. And rightly so. The organization is incensed about "the scale of rape by [Liberian] security forces against women and girls – some as young as 12 years old."
However, on our shores, the U.S. Department of Justice reports more than 19,000 in-school rape victims in 1999, 58 percent higher than the 12,000 in-school rapes in 1994. Had this scale of schoolhouse rape occurred in a foreign country, against thousands of helpless children, Amnesty would surely have given the crimes full-court press.
So, why has the American press not sounded the alarm on behalf of our own children?
"Ken," a DOJ Research Specialist responded to my query about rapes "inside school building or on school property," saying, "According to our data … inside school building(s) or on school property … there were approximately 12,000 rapes in 1994. In 1999 … over 19,000 rapes."
A review of DOJ's "Personal Crimes of Violence, 1999," Tables 61-63 revealed nearly 10 percent of all rapes that year occurring "inside school building or on school property." Fortunately, Table 63 separates "rape" out as a violent crime.
I say fortunately since most DOJ data collapse "rape" into an overall "violent crime" category along with robbery and aggravated assault, distinctly different degrees of violent crime. Certainly, when rape is lumped in with robbery, tracking rape trends is nearly impossible.
While roughly 1 percent of elementary schools had reported rape in their schools in yet another DOJ report, despite the available age of victim data, DOJ excludes school children under age 12 from the schoolhouse rape report. Why? Other DOJ research shows that 67 percent of all sex-abuse victims are children under age 18 and 34 percent are under age 12. It would be critical to locate the number of such children victimized in our schools.
Other questions still go without answers: For instance, why are rapes not categorized by victim age and gender? What percent of school rape victims are teachers and what percent are children? Has a tribunal been convened to examine the causes of this unique child-abuse disgrace? Where are the arrest reports and the media frenzy surrounding roughly 19,000 schoolhouse rapists?
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has "8 Rules" for schoolchildren "to keep them from being victims of abuse or kidnapping." A rough summary of the 8 Rules – training mandated for Massachusetts and Kentucky elementary children, addresses how to be safe from predators outside of school.
Children are told to ask your parents "or a trusted adult" for help if molested or alarmed by someone. If all else fails, Rule No. 8 is a self-help recitation for school children, "I am strong, smart and have the right to be safe!"
I know my readers would find these solutions to rape and sexual abuse worrisome. Who thinks that having a second grader repeat I am "strong" and "safe" would have stopped 19,000 in-school rapes of children age 12 and over?
The organization, Survivors of Educator Sexual Abuse & Misconduct Emerge, confirms the growing problem of school personnel and teachers-as-sex-perverts. SESAME cites a survey of high school graduates, finding 17.7 percent of males and 82.2 percent of females who say they were sexually harassed by faculty or staff as students, 13.5 percent saying they "engaged in sexual intercourse with a teacher."
Given the outrageousness of these numbers, one expects ethical journalists to immediately begin in-depth investigations of these toxic schoolhouse data.
School as a sex-assault war zone follows roughly 40 years of school "sex education," unleashed in the early 1960s when classrooms became eroticized. Rapes and sex assaults in schools – once a place of trust and safely – are now objective measures of a failed sexual worldview and of fetid social decay.
Dr. Reisman, president of the Institute for Media Education in Crestwood, Ky., is the author of
"Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences."
Rapes and sex assaults in schools – once a place of trust and safely – are now objective measures of a failed sexual worldview and of fetid social decay.
Dr. Reisman is so right. And, of course, this doesn't take into consideration the mental and emotional rape that occurs everyday in our public schools under the guise of "education."
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"There is no freedom without responsibility." "Sexual freedom" without moral responsibility (I am not blaming the victims, I do blame the adults/teachers/administrators who teach "sexuality" but do not keep schools safe) is a disaster.
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SESAME cites a survey of high school graduates, finding 17.7 percent of males and 82.2 percent of females who say they were sexually harassed by faculty or staff as students, 13.5 percent saying they "engaged in sexual intercourse with a teacher."
Sad FYI bump.
My favorite and best teacher in high school was having sex with one of my friends....
confirms the growing problem of school personnel and teachers-as-sex-perverts.
*sigh*
As an FYI, the very affluent northern Indianapolis suburb of Carmel had FOUR teachers resign in the last MONTH over exposed sexual misconduct... one committed suicide. Franklin Township (southern suburb) had a fifth one... The newsies are just loving it...
GREAT way to start off the new school year! Thanks, jerks!
from http://www.ncweb.com/org/rapecrisis/sesameresearch.html
"The best estimate is that 15% of students will be sexually abused by a member of the school staff during their school career." (Shakeshaft, Ph.D., Hofstra University: Testimony, NYS Senate Commitee On Children & Families, 2/12/98)
"Survey of high school graduates: 17.7% of males and 82.2% of females reported sexual harassment by faculty or staff during their schoolcareers. 13.5% of those surveyed said they had engaged in sexual
intercourse with a teacher." (Wishnietsky, "Reported and UnreportedTeacher-Student Sexual Harassment", Journal of Ed Research, Vol. 3, 1991, pp.164-69)
13.5% of ALL students surveyed report having sex with a teacher?!?!?
Holy [expletive deleted]! I would never have guessed that high.
I'm looking at my kids taking their pre-tests right now...
21 kids X .135...
3 of MY kids have had, or will have relations of some kind (or be raped by)...
It really makes me want to punch out a few of my personal suspects in the faculty lounge.
The problem seems to be finally getting some national attention. Thanks for the flag.
Are these numbers for real?!?!?!
Dehumanizing is in the Marxist handbook. The NEA and teachers union support the Democrats. They're happy with it, I'm sure. This, to them, is good news.
I had a couple of male teachers in high school that insisted on commenting on parts of my body in class. I see I wasn't alone, unfortunately.
What were the numbers pre-clintoon?
See also A Trust Betrayed: Sexual Abuse by Teachers
why in the world do you have your precious children in a Public school? you should have your head examined..... or is driving that late model car more important to you???
The number of teachers arrested for having sex with minors is at a all time high. Why is this?
When asked by a reporter, "Why do you rob banks?" One guy responded "Because that's where the money is".
In this case "That's where the children are".
The National Education Ass. and the press always down play incidents of abuse of trust by teachers. The only exception is when the alledged abuser is a Catholic Priest or a home schooler. Then all bets are off, "Stop the Presses", the press has a field day.
When will we learn?
13.5% of those surveyed said they had engaged in sexual intercourse with a teacher."
I had some pretty hot teachers and not one of them tried to lay a hand on me. I'm very upset.
You misunderstand... "MY" kids are all 130 that are in my classes. Statistically, 3 kids in that class (last period... I'm pre-testing in all my classes today... the good news? no weekend homework for the first weekend of the year!) will have experiences with faculty. Thinking about ALL of them, rather than that one class... 0.135 X 130 = 17-18 total.
Note: I am a HUGE advocate of homeschooling and many other alternatives to public education, but am doing what I can to help from the inside as well.
The NEA does everything but send out engraved invitations to every degenerate, malcontent, misfit and pervert in the country to apply for a teaching job:
NEA Convention 2000 Report and Commentary
>When will we learn?
This is an unfair question.
We've learned. We've known about it for many years. But there's virtually nothing we can do about it...
Sure, we can take our kids out of public schools. But that does nothing to change the situation at public schools. Or the way media covers such issues.
Sure, we can vote scum democrats out of office. But that does nothing to stem to overall cultural tide of depravity.
A more pointed question is, "What can we do?"
But I believe this question doesn't get asked enough because there is no satisfying answer. It appears to me that what is going on in modern America is a manifestation of the End Time spiritual war and there's not much we as individuals can do about that except keep ourselves right with God the best we, as individuals, can...
Mark W.
Which parts are you talking about, and at what level of schooling?
Maybe the students were just 'acting out' what they had learned earlier in sex education calss.... (sarcasm)
when i was in college i got to fulfill my student to teacher fantasy when i seduced my Spanish teacher my junior year... That was sweet!!! And i did it all for the sake of the children... ;-)
This sort of thing goes along with the general feeling among our young people that they are only sexual objects, and this sort of behavior is acceptable and normal. Young teens and even preteens are routinely engaging in sexual acts.
Check out any lovers lane or in a secluded spot at night and see how many of these youngsters you find in parked cars.
Our fashion designers are dressing up preteens and young teens like ladies of the night, our movies and other entertainment media are glorifying unrestricted sex among the young, there is a lack of parental control, and then peer pressure further pushes the belief that girls must put out to be popular. Young men see girls as merely sexual objects. And they feel that rape is justified when a girl plays hard to get. And the girls themselves seem to do nothing to prove them wrong. The whole climate in this country is a no-win proposition for moral values and the family.
"I had some pretty hot teachers and not one of them tried to lay a hand on me. I'm very upset."
This is really not a joking matter.
I bet your own children go to the school where you teach... the public schools are a dismal failure, the only thing for parents to do is get as many kids OUT as possible the only thing for voters to do is dismantle the NEA and the Dept. of Education, and do away with the public schools, anything short of that is pissing money down a rat hole. the whole system is so thoroughly corrupted that it is beyond repair or redemption....
Which parts are you talking about, and at what level of schooling?
My breasts, in 11th and 12th grade. The teachers were friends, and I got the feeling they may have discussed me. They loved talking about my breasts in class. It embarrassed me (of course) and that made it more fun for them. One of the teachers was having an affair with a student at the time, and he gave out extra points to students who brought in receipts from the fast food restaurant she worked in. It was common knowledge, and, last I heard, he was promoted into administration. Just another reason I'm considering homeschooling.
shocking statistics
Dehumanizing is in the Marxist handbook. The NEA and teachers union support the Democrats. They're happy with it, I'm sure. This, to them, is good news.
You've said it all.
...why in the world do you have your precious children in a Public school?
Read her post again. The kids she refers to are her students.
Good point.
Have none of these children a brother, father, uncle, or grand father??? The only cure seems the SS&S that works so well on other "protected vermin".
However, on our shores, the U.S. Department of Justice reports more than 19,000 in-school rape victims in 1999
Sorry, but I don't believe these numbers for a second. That would be roughly 2 rapes per school day per state. If that were true, don't ya think we would have heard about this a long time ago. These numbers are BS.
There is at least one sexual assault in the NYC public schools every day. That's about 185 per year.
Doesn't anybody else see the number 19,000 and question it? That is approximately 2 cases a day for each state during the school year. If it occurred that often, the outrage would be everywhere!
This makes about as much sense as the NOW statistics that say one and three women have been raped, or that Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest day for domestic violence. I have seen Freepers before cut numbers like this to shreds.
I hunted down the actual table at http://blackstone.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cvus9904.pdf (although I'm using the google.com cached text). It looks like over 10% of violent acts are on school grounds, not rape.
Inside school building/on school property
Completed violence 11.1%
Rape/Sexual assault 5.2% (Estimate is based on about 10 or fewer sample cases. Includes verbal threats of rape and threats of sexual assault.)
Rape/Sexual assualt by strangers 2.2%
by non strangers 6.7
Attending school
Crime of violence 9.6 %
Rape/Sexual assault 5.2%
19,000 in-school rape victims
Let's break this down, shall we?
19,000 (that's a lot!)
in-school (it doesn't say on premises, it says "in-school")
rape (it doesn't say sexual assualt, it says "rape" (that means penetration))
I stand by my original statements. This is BS unless the Justice Department wants to reword their statements.
These are only the "reported" cases. If there is a discrepancy, the actual numbers are much higher.
Teachers who are caught sexually abusing their students are not usually fired, but are quietly transferred to another school where they continue the practice. The NEA silent brotherhood bends over backward to protect their valuable missionaries of evil.
Student-on-student rapes rarely make the news, and criminal charges are rarely filed, even when the victim is at college level and of adult age.
Of course, critics of government schools continue to catch waves of venom from statist idiots whenever any truth sufaces about the public school sewer pits.
But we mustn't be judgemental. In that same Indianapolis Star article there was a quote from a Carmel mom in which she said "I had to tell my children that Mr. whoever was still a good person and teacher who had just made a mistake." Now you know why we have the problem.
rape (it doesn't say sexual assualt, it says "rape" (that means penetration))
If she said "rape" when the DOJ category was "rape/sexual assault", you can critize her for sloppy writing, but not much more than that.
Completed violence 2,077,350 total
Rape/Sexual assault 381,400 total
Inside school building/on school property
Completed violence 11.1% (230,585 total)
Rape/Sexual assault 5.2% (19,832 total)
Rape/Sexual assualt by strangers 2.2%
by non strangers 6.7%
Attending school
Crime of violence 9.6 %
Rape/Sexual assault 5.2%(19,832 total)
The NEA silent brotherhood bends over backward to protect their valuable missionaries of evil. Student-on-student rapes rarely make the news, and criminal charges are rarely filed,
(1)If it ain't making the news, then how do you know it happens? You have some inside scoop or what?
(2)And my wife is a 6th-8th grade teacher in a "liberal" school district and none of this stuff is going on in her school, so please don't give me the NEA silent brotherhood crap. If a student or teacher raped or sexually abused a student, they'd be up on charges in a New York minute.
"...valuable missionaries of evil" my ass.
Department of Education
Department of Justice
EMBARGOED UNTIL 9:00 A.M. EDT BJS 202/307-0703
OCTOBER 26, 2000 NCES 202/401-1579
CRIMES IN THE NATION'S SCHOOLS DECLINED IN THE 1990s
ACCORDING TO DEPARTMENTS OF JUSTICE & EDUCATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. Crime in the nation's
schools decreased during the last seven years,
according to a new report issued today by the
Justice Department's Bureau of Justice
Statistics and the Department of Education's
National Center for Education Statistics. The
report, Indicators of School Crime and Safety
2000, indicates that between 1992 and 1998
violent victimization rates at schools dropped
from 48 crimes per 1,000 students to 43 per
1,000. The percentage of students who said
they were victims of crimes (including either
theft or violent crimes) at school decreased
between 1995 and 1999 from 10 percent to 8
percent.
Between 1993 and 1997 students in grades 9
through 12 who reported carrying a gun, knife
or other weapon on school property during the
previous 30 days dropped from 12 percent to 9
percent, a 25 percent reduction. During 1998,
students aged 12 through 18 were victims of
more than 2.7 million crimes at school,
including about 253,000 serious violent crimes
(rape, sexual assault, robbery and aggravated
assault). In comparison, there were 550,000
such serious crimes away from school. The new
report indicates there were 60 violent deaths
at school between July 1, 1997 and June 30,
1998, including 47 homicides, 12 suicides and 1
teenager killed by a police officer in the line
of duty.
Between 1993 and 1997, the percentage of
9th through 12th grade students who were
threatened or injured with a weapon of any sort
on school property remained constant between
7 and 8 percent. Additionally, the percentage
of those students who reported being in a
physical fight on school property was unchanged
during the same period.
During the 1994-1998 period, teachers were
the victims of 1,755,000 crimes at school,
including 1,087,000 thefts and 668,000 serious
violent crimes. This amounts to 83 crimes per
1,000 teachers annually.
...
U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2000 ...In 1996-97, 10 percent of all public schools reported at least one serious violent crime to the police or a law enforcement representative. Principals' reports of serious violent crimes included murder, rape or other type of sexual battery, suicide, physical attack or fight with a weapon, or robbery. Another 47 percent of public schools reported a less serious violent or nonviolent crime (but not a serious violent one). Crimes in this category include physical attack or fight without a weapon, theft/larceny, and vandalism. The remaining 43 percent of public schools did not report any of these crimes to the police (Indicator 8). ...
Seems that crime overall in public schools dropped considerably during the Clinton administration. Gee, how can that be?
Seems that crime overall in public schools dropped considerably during the Clinton administration. Gee, how can that be?
Raw numbers could drop because the number of teenagers drops. It could be dropping as part of a trend that goes back to before Clinton. States could be doing a better job of running their schools despite the scumbag that was in the White House.
Any number of reasons.
Or it could have been despite because of the scumbag that was in the White House.
Or it could have been because of the scumbag that was in the White House.
Any proof of that would be welcome.
This is disgusting but not surprising. Society allowed a rapist in the White House for 8 years.
More kids were wise to the surveys and did not report carrying weapons, etc.
Maybe, since oral sex wasn't sex during the Clintoon years, we're just comparing apples and oranges.
Back in 1974-1976, I was a student at a public junior high school in a white suburban neighborhood in a community of about 1 million persons spread over a 6 county area.
This was an extrememly middle-class white community in a mid-sized region.
My Gym teacher would have sex with various female students in his office several times per day. The door would always be open and all the kids knew about it. We didn't stare... but it was going on all the time, and we all knew it, had seen it, and definitely heard it.
It is difficult to believe other teachers didn't know. The entire student population knew.
I heard several years later that he was disciplined for sexual impropriety -- and moved away. I presume he's "teaching" somewhere else now.
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