5 Million American Children Assualted By Teachers

[Mateo el Feo]

[quote name='Joey1976' post='1175137' date='Jan 24 2007, 08:20 PM']5 Million teacher abuse cases!!! wow. How does that compare to the Priest cases? What are the numbers for the Priest abuse in the US?[/quote]According to the USCCB survey, 10,667 children had been sexual abused by priests from 1950-2002.

The 5 million victim number is supposed to cover K-12 students currently in school (~10% of the total US student population). It is an extrapolation of an extrapolation, so I'd say it's still subject to big adjustments. Also, the original study cited (AAUW) breaks down sexual abuse into different categories based on the act (anything from dirty jokes to actual physical contact) and the perpetrator (e.g. student, teacher, other school employee). It's not 100% clear whether she is basing her extrapolation by using statistics for teachers who physically/sexually abuse their students, or if it includes all abuse by all perpetrators.

By the way, a link to the government report (written by someone from Hofstra U.) is here:
[url="http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf"]http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/m...view/report.pdf[/url]

[homeschoolmom]

Unfortunately, children can be at risk just about anywhere-- parks, Little League, Scouts, sleepovers, etc. I don't think that means we shouldn't have our children participate in those things. But it does mean that we as parents have to step up our game in being knowledgeable about who has access to our kids. That means-- assisting with the games and Scout events, meeting and befriending your neighbors and children's friends and their families, volunteering at school and CCD classes. Unfortunately, our society is no longer set up for such community involvement. Businesses demand long hours and even working from home. etc. And that makes for lots of unsupervised children who are targets for abuse.

[curtins]

[quote name='Socrates' post='1174384' date='Jan 23 2007, 09:39 PM']
I don't think so - it's because the media for the most part has a heavy anti-religious (anti-Catholic especially) bias.

The media sees stories of molester priests as an ideal way to tear down the Church, while "education," particularly tax-funded public education, is a sacred cow of the liberal media.

This said, I still believe (contrary to the beliefs of some Catholics) that any molester priest ought to be immediately removed and handed over to the law on first offense.
Such behavior by anyone, especially by a priest of God, is an abominable crime which ought not be tolerated.
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amen amen amen

they'll quickly use the abuse scandal to take cheap shots at the church but they will not mention this teacher abuse scandal which seems even bigger than the church one. Fox news is going after this- bill oreilly, sean hanity and the like