"Of children in 8th through 11th grade, about 3.5 million students (nearly 7%) surveyed reported having had physical sexual contact from an adult (most often a teacher or coach). The type of physical contact ranged from unwanted touching of their body, all the way up to sexual intercourse.
This statistic increases to about 4.5 million children (10%) when it takes other types of sexual misconduct into consideration, such as being shown pornography or being subjected to sexually explicit language or exhibitionism.
Very often, other teachers “thought there might be something going on”, but were afraid to report a fellow educator if they were wrong. They didn’t want to be responsible for “ruining a person’s life,” although that is exactly what they are doing to the child if they don’t speak up, thus allowing the abuse to continue."
This behavior is done by people in authority charged with the protection of a vulnerable group. Where trust is crucial. This is the argument against all police.
Because we don't want to sound as insane as them? Defund the police is an election losing issue, we don't want to respond to something that sounds equally insane
I disagree. The leftists genuinely feel that there is a moral imperative to defund the police. The comparison needs to be made. Especially when it's a matter of kids being abused and how much more frequently it happens than excessive uses of force by LEOs
More teachers rape kids than priests do and that's a fact
"Of children in 8th through 11th grade, about 3.5 million students (nearly 7%) surveyed reported having had physical sexual contact from an adult (most often a teacher or coach). The type of physical contact ranged from unwanted touching of their body, all the way up to sexual intercourse.
This statistic increases to about 4.5 million children (10%) when it takes other types of sexual misconduct into consideration, such as being shown pornography or being subjected to sexually explicit language or exhibitionism.
This behavior is done by people in authority charged with the protection of a vulnerable group. Where trust is crucial. This is the argument against all police.
cause everyone is screaming to re-open schools or something.
Because we don't want to sound as insane as them? Defund the police is an election losing issue, we don't want to respond to something that sounds equally insane
I disagree. The leftists genuinely feel that there is a moral imperative to defund the police. The comparison needs to be made. Especially when it's a matter of kids being abused and how much more frequently it happens than excessive uses of force by LEOs