Glen Reynolds notes:
BUT RELAX, IT’S ONLY A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM IF PRIESTS ARE INVOLVED: How Many Kids Are Sexually Abused by Their Teachers? Probably millions. When it’s public-school teachers, it’s just one of those things. Whaddyagonnado?
This is in response to an article by Slate asking "How Many Kids Are Sexually Abused by Their Teachers?" Slate answers:
Possibly. The best available study suggests that about 10 percent of students suffer some form of sexual abuse during their school careers. In the 2000 report, commissioned by the American Association of University Women, surveyors asked students between eighth and 11th grades whether they had ever experienced inappropriate sexual conduct at school. The list of such conduct included lewd comments, exposure to pornography, peeping in the locker room, and sexual touching or grabbing. Around one in 10 students said they had been the victim of one or more such things from a teacher or other school employee, and two-thirds of those reported the incident involved physical contact. If these numbers are representative of the student population nationwide, 4.5 million students currently in grades K-12 have suffered some form of sexual abuse by an educator, and more than 3 million have experienced sexual touching or assault. This number would include both inappropriate romantic relationships between teachers and upperclassmen, and outright pedophilia.The outrage about Catholic priests is "buying grace on the cheap." Most of the noise comes from people who are not Catholic and will never see any of their loved one's abused by a priest - particularly since the Catholic Church is now the safest place there is for children and virtually all such acts occurred more than twenty years ago.
Besides tarring all priests as pedophiles is easy and a popular thing to do because the Catholic Church is just so darned unsupportive of the things so beloved by the liberal elites.
But getting worried about teachers is dangerous. They're a core constituency of the Democrat Party. Essentially everyone is going to have some relative involved the public school system somewhere. And, besides, teaching is for the kids.
Best to just move along.
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This number would include both inappropriate romantic relationships between teachers and upperclassmen, and outright pedophilia.
The phrase "inappropriate romantic relationships" is presumably "loaded" jargon, based on the position taken in the Catholic "pedophilia" scandal.
No one is much interested in the Catholic cases in the fact that the large majority - 70 - 80% - involve "ebophilia," not "pedophilia." In other words, the large majority of such cases involve minors who would be what is described as "upperclassmen."
On the other hand, should that matter, particularly in the case of teachers? Teachers occupy of position of power vis a vis students. The function of teachers is not to use their position of power to act upon their appetite for "romantic relationships." Parents do not entrust their minor children to the State with the idea that it is perfectly acceptable for their minor children to have "romantic relationships" with adults in a position of power, etc.
But, yes, the statistic undoubtedly encompasses the entire frontier of sexual activity between teachers and students.
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