Mason opened this issue on Jun 26, 2002 ยท 32 posts
Barbarellany posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 1:17 PM
ok, after this if there is more debate we can further discuss this through e-mail. After an experience with my daughter and a teacher, I did a lot of research regarding teachers as pedifiles and truthfully, I can no longer site specific documents. Logic though can help support my comments. First of all, pedifiles look for employment where they can be near children. Becoming a teacher is much easier than becoming a priest. I found that around 8% of teachers have sexually based complaints against them but few make it to court. The news will tell you that less than 1% of priests have the same complaints. As with the Catholic church, teachers and students are moved around in most cases as resolution. It is easier to move a child to another class or a teacher to another school within the district. Ususally during the school year it is the child that gets moved as was the resolution in our case. The teacher was moved to a library in another school the next year. We further found that this same teacher had been moved around years before under a similar situation. The district would not discuss it. I cannot believe this district does things so different from other schools. Reseach at that time and a lawyer told us that this was the usual process. As for the president keeping quiet as to not look like he is crusading against catholics as well a muslims, who's group do you think keeps the media at it? I'm just tired of hearing about priests as though there were no Lutheran, Baptist, or Jewish spiritual leaders that are pedifiles or ever had a complaint to suggest they are. Now since no pedifile priest has been associated with cgi as a means to hurt actual children, I think we can leave them out of this debate. I don't believe they have proven any pedifile has used cgi to harm an actual child which is the debate.