An epidemic of sexual abuse in schools Shoddy investigations, quiet resignations, and a culture of secrecy have protected predators, not students The documents began arriving last fall, first in a trickle, then a flood. Emoji-filled text messages from teachers, handwritten complaints from students in the rounded script of teenage girls, type-written transcripts from HR investigations. Eventually, thousands of pages from disciplinary files of educators investigated for sexual misconduct made their way to my desk. They documented grooming and groping, the sharing of dick pics and porn, sexualized comments in classrooms, oral sex in bathrooms, and statutory rape that in some cases continued for years. In case after case, from San Francisco, California, to Enosburg Falls, Vermont, the documents conveyed an unsettling ... Continue reading... https://www.businessinsider.com/sex...tudent-teacher-relationship-predators-2023-12 Find in Internet Archives [google]An epidemic of sexual abuse in schools[/google]
It seems like every high school has that one creepy teacher. These documents show why. A few years ago, in a conversation with my friends about our various high school experiences, we revealed something unsettling: All of us, it seemed, knew of some form of inappropriate teacher/student sexual contact during our time in school. Across private and public schools, in different states, everyone in that conversation knew of a teacher who was arrested — or about a teacher who students just knew to stay away from. Initially, I couldn't think of any official cases of abuse from my time in school, but there definitely were some things that were off: A teacher who married a ... Continue reading... https://www.businessinsider.com/teachers-predators-sexual-abuse-high-school-reporting-data-2023-12 Find in Internet Archives [google]It seems like every high school has that one creepy teacher. These documents show why.[/google]
