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And people say professional journalism is dead/useless! The weakest paragraph I could find is this: > In December 2019, the World Bank was made aware of a thr

And people say professional journalism is dead/useless! The weakest paragraph I could find is this: > In December 2019, the World Bank was made aware of a three-year randomized control trial by the Center for Global Development that compared schools in the Liberian “LEAP” program — which prominently included Bridge schools — with other government schools. It found that nearly 4 percent of LEAP students surveyed in 2019 reported “sexual intercourse with a teacher” and 7.5 percent had “some form of sexual contact with a teacher.” The Bank “expressed concerns … It does not indicate how government schools fared in comparison, and it is also possible that non Bridge LEAP schools were disproportionately high in abuse percentage. It is also possible that one or two schools had all the cases. Percentages are given without total number of students. Overall, however, it damning for the members of most organizations mentioned, including non-abusive staff at schools. I mean, teachers “confronted her abuser” but after he vanished they just… continued as if nothing happened? Great job.

ClumsyPilot 3y ago
>It found that nearly 4 percent of LEAP students surveyed in 2019 reported “sexual intercourse with a teacher” That would mean that in every class of, suppose, 30 student 1 or 2 students had sex with a teacher and maybe 4 were abused. That's really high and basically everyone people would know something is happening
- anileated 3y ago
  You assume even distribution. It could mean in select 1–2 class(es) or school(s) many students were abused, while in others none were. And, it requires knowing the total for the percentage to make an emotional impact—something the writer could provide with little effort, but did not. It is nitpicking, though.
- tzs 3y ago
  Actually (and I sure wish this was a topic upon which one could not start a sentence with "Actually"...) according to most sources I could find thats around the middle of the range of estimates for what percent of children are sexually abused. In the US for example CDC says 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys [1]. The National Center for Victims of Crime says 1 in 5 and 1 in 20 for girls and boys, respectively [2]. The Rape, Abuse, & Incest Network says 1 in 9 girls and 1 in 20 boys [3]. Globally, Wikipedia cites a paper that says it is 19.7% for girls and 7.9% for males [4]. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fastfact.html https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fast... [2] https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics/ https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics/ [3] https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse
  - iudqnolq 3y ago
    Your stats are with anybody, not with a teacher.

ClumsyPilot 3y ago

>It found that nearly 4 percent of LEAP students surveyed in 2019 reported “sexual intercourse with a teacher” That would mean that in every class of, suppose, 30 student 1 or 2 students had sex with a teacher and maybe 4 were abused. That's really high and basically everyone people would know something is happening

anileated 3y ago
You assume even distribution. It could mean in select 1–2 class(es) or school(s) many students were abused, while in others none were. And, it requires knowing the total for the percentage to make an emotional impact—something the writer could provide with little effort, but did not. It is nitpicking, though.
tzs 3y ago
Actually (and I sure wish this was a topic upon which one could not start a sentence with "Actually"...) according to most sources I could find thats around the middle of the range of estimates for what percent of children are sexually abused. In the US for example CDC says 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys [1]. The National Center for Victims of Crime says 1 in 5 and 1 in 20 for girls and boys, respectively [2]. The Rape, Abuse, & Incest Network says 1 in 9 girls and 1 in 20 boys [3]. Globally, Wikipedia cites a paper that says it is 19.7% for girls and 7.9% for males [4]. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fastfact.html https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fast... [2] https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics/ https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics/ [3] https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse
- iudqnolq 3y ago
  Your stats are with anybody, not with a teacher.