It's more than just sex.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/10/24/09ap-abuse.h27.html?tmp=753846500

Another teacher was arrested for having sex with a student. Right here. In Hillsborough County.

It is time to take notice of this national phenonemon.

Please read this entire article.


It's more than just sex when it comes to Teachers and students.

It's about abuse of power.

It's getting worse:
(Following its own, six-month investigation in 1998, Education Week published a three-part series, “A Trust Betrayed,” that documented the national scope of sexual misconduct involving students and school employees. That series, based in part on a database of nearly 250 cases drawn from published accounts, was updated with further research in 2003.)

It's being ignored:

"The findings draw obvious comparisons to sex-abuse scandals in other institutions, among them the Roman Catholic Church. A review by America’s Catholic bishops found that about 4,400 of 110,000 priests were accused of molesting minors from 1950 through 2002.

Clergy abuse is part of the national consciousness after a string of highly publicized cases. But until now, there’s been little broad public awareness of the extent of educator abuse. Beyond the horror of individual crimes, the larger shame is that the institutions that govern education have only sporadically addressed a problem that’s been apparent for years."



It is rationalized:

"The nation’s two major teachers’ unions, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, each denounced sexual abuse while emphasizing that educators’ rights also must be taken into account.

In case after case the AP examined, accusations of inappropriate behavior were dismissed. One girl in Mansfield, Ohio, complained about a sexual assault by teacher Donald Coots and got expelled. It was only when a second girl, years later, brought a similar complaint against the same teacher that he was punished."

"School officials fear public embarrassment as much as the perpetrators do, Ms. Shakeshaft says. They want to avoid the fallout from going up against a popular teacher. They also don’t want to get sued by teachers or victims, and they don’t want to face a challenge from a strong union."

It is so well recognized it has it's own name:

"Too often, problem teachers are allowed to leave quietly. That can mean future abuse for another student and another school district.

“They might deal with it internally, suspending the person or having the person move on. So their license is never investigated,” says Charol Shakeshaft, a leading expert in teacher sex abuse who heads the educational leadership department at Virginia Commonwealth University.

It’s a dynamic so common it has its own nicknames—“passing the trash” or the “mobile molester.”

In the AP report, it states that the victim's ''symptoms" show up later in life. They can not have a "normal" relationship because of the conflicting emotions. Teachers having sex with students is more than just sex.