Pedophilia - pretty acceptable when done by public schoolteachers that the community loves it seems.

Notice how the community attitude seems pretty down with this pedophile school teacher...including blaming the victim.

It's a pity that school teachers can't be married or that women aren't allowed to be school teachers.

First, it was the police, then it is the teachers...

...but to the government, you are the problem.

Tim Cavanaugh at Reason writes:

Yesterday my daughters brought home copies of a flyer containing the principal’s thoughts on the scandal. I guess this page of skylarking was intended to reassure us or something. I wouldn’t take note of it at all except that one paragraph illustrates the pathology of public employees with stunning clarity:

As I reflect on the disturbing occurrences at Miramonte, I am more confused over the fact that the children did not report. How is it that the children did not believe that what the teacher was doing to them was wrong? How could being blindfolded, placed in a closet, and having cockroaches placed on them not be wrong? I believe that the teachers involved in these heinous acts preyed on the most vulnerable of the children; children of poverty, children of abuse, children with uninvolved parents, and children of undocumented parents.

The principal’s insistence on repeating lurid details from the newspapers is between her and her god. This person is a martinet with a habit of logorrhea that expresses itself in nightly robocalls and long assemblies during which parents are upbraided for such crimes as parking on the street while delivering and picking up students, cutting into the school’s funding by keeping kids home from classes, not contributing during fundraisers, and so on.

But look again at that paragraph. There is no way around the logic: She is arguing that it was the kids’ fault for not reporting the incident. And since public school is a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims, the children are also described as victims who have suffered from the depredations of poverty and abuse, of “uninvolved” and undocumented parents. Her focus on the kids’ purported failure to speak up may be intended as an “if you see something say something” advisory, but the focus itself is what is revealing. The inadequacy of the students and their parents, not the negligence of the school or the district, is to blame.

As it happens, my kids’ principal is wrong on the facts: Mark Berndt, the more prominent of the two accused teachers at Miramonte, was the subject of complaints on at least two occasions: in 1994 and 2008. Administrators at the school and the district failed to take action either time.

Another thing that the principal fails to note: Berndt has been accused, not convicted. For criminal purposes he is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and that would be true even if he were not represented by a public-sector union. The difference between a schoolteacher and, for example, an employee of Disneyland or Burger King, is that Berndt couldn’t be fired when the suspicions first came up. That’s not an idle comparison.

"If only women could be teachers..."

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 11^th 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.

If only Los Angeles school teachers could marry...

...if only women could be Los Angeles School teacher.

A veteran L.A. school teacher arrested on 23 counts of molesting children ages six through ten.

The details are disgusting.

The immediate question that comes to mind is, how could this have gone on for so long. One asnwer seems to that the children didn't complain because they thought they were playing a game. That seems possible for the six years old, but a stretch for the 10 year olds.