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> nor are they protected by the school system. Example from the day before yesterday: "5 school employees arrested for alleged failure to report student's sex

• Retric 3y ago
  I don’t see why you think that supports your argument.
  • willcipriano 3y ago
    Here's another, December of last year, there are a lot of these: "Three school administrators in Bellingham accused of failing to report alleged sexual assault" https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/bellingham/school-administrators-bellingham-accused-failing-report-sexual-assault/281-9d01fcfb-3204-46c4-982f-76be244dfafd https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/bellingham/school-a... If teachers are willing to cover up for random child molesters in the community what do you think they'd do for one of their own?
    • Retric 3y ago
      > what do you think they’d do for one of their own? Hang them out to dry, as should be evident by your failure to find examples. Teachers failing to report student on student violence isn’t actively protecting perpetrators the way the church was reported as doing. Church administrators would move pedophiles to new communities multiple times after accusations showed up. It’s a very different situation.
      • willcipriano 3y ago
        > Church administrators would move pedophiles to new communities multiple times after accusations showed up. From a few months ago: Oversight failures allow sexually abusive teachers to quietly move from school to school "It's called passing the trash," said Morgan Stewart, an attorney representing students who have accused teachers of sexual abuse at Redlands Unified District schools. "They'd give them recommendations, they'd give them approvals. You've got this culture that just allows it to happen again and again." Failing to report reasonable suspicion of sexual abuse is a crime, yet federal officials and experts told CBS they believe school administrators often do not contact authorities for fear of damaging the reputation of a teacher or the school. And teachers told CBS they observed a culture that discouraged reporting suspicions of misconduct in their schools. TLDR: This practice is repeated in schools across the United States, risking harm to millions of children, according to experts and federal officials. On average, one offender passes through three different school districts before being stopped, and can abuse as many as 73 children in their lifetime, according to a 2010 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oversight-failures-allow-sexually-abusive-teachers-quietly-move-school-to-school/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oversight-failures-allow-sexual...
        • Retric 3y ago
          That GAO report shows some serious lapses at private and public schools, such as using the wrong name for a criminal background investigation. It highlighted a few cases of people being given a positive recommendation after being fired for such things as watching porn on school computers. Nationwide fingerprint checks really should be mandatory here.
    • ethanbond 3y ago
      Quite a leap from a textbook example of bystander effect to “teachers are protecting pedophile teachers.”
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