{"id":67778,"date":"2018-08-27T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67778"},"modified":"2018-08-26T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:58:10","slug":"pick-your-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67778","title":{"rendered":"Pick Your Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church is the flavor of the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanvision.org\/16723\/the-big-double-standard-on-child-sex-abuse-no-one-is-talking-about\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;amp;utm_medium=social&amp;amp;utm_campaign=socialwarfare\">Sexual abuse of children in public schools is SQUIRREL<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other sources confirm this problem is big\u2014\u201c<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/better-warnings-would-help-schools-filter-teaching-applicants-with-sexual-a\/520890\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">far more common<\/a>\u201d than you want to believe. Further, just like the Catholic problem,\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2016\/12\/22\/teachers-who-sexually-abuse-students-still-find-classroom-jobs\/95346790\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public schools<\/a>\u00a0\u201ccontinue to conceal the actions of dangerous educators in ways that allow them to stay in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, one\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/better-warnings-would-help-schools-filter-teaching-applicants-with-sexual-a\/520890\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>\u00a0says that between 1 and 5 percent of teachers sexually harass or abuse students. Given that there are 3.2 million school teachers, those numbers represent between 32,000 and 160,000 predators in the schools.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this startling problem being laid before the U.S. Department of Education in a 2004 study entitled, \u201c<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/files.eric.ed.gov\/fulltext\/ED483143.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of the Literature<\/a>,\u201d it was related to me that there are no updated stats or studies. Despite the overwhelming indications, there have been no national or even statewide studies of student experiences of educator sexual misconduct.\u00a0<em>Fifteen years<\/em>\u00a0have gone by since this study!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The difference, of course, is that Big Left detests all that Catholicism stands (or at least stood) for, while teachers are Big Left&#8217;s shock troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church is the flavor of the month. Sexual abuse of children in public schools is SQUIRREL! Other sources confirm this problem is big\u2014\u201cfar more common\u201d than you want to believe. Further, just like the Catholic problem,\u00a0public schools\u00a0\u201ccontinue to conceal the actions of dangerous educators in ways that allow them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67794,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67778\/revisions\/67794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}