I’ve asked it before and I’ll ask again: when do we start spitting on teachers?
Of course, I’m not actually advocating mass expectoration on educators. The point of my modest proposal is that the education profession has not been held to anywhere near the account that churches have over their terrible history of covering up for paedophile predators in their midst. What the churches did was inexcusable and they’ve been rightly excoriated: what schools and education bureaucracies have done (and are still doing) exceeds in scale the worst of the churches’ abuses.
So, why haven’t they been held to the same standard?
Especially when all the signs are that the scale of teacher abuse is getting worse.
Predatory teachers are increasingly using social media and electronic communication to groom children outside their classrooms as online learning becomes an everyday part of education.
Half the teachers currently suspended by Victoria’s teaching watchdog are facing allegations of online “grooming behaviour”, up from only one in eight such suspensions 2½ years ago […]
Of the 17 Victorian teachers currently on interim suspensions by the VIT, nine stem from allegations of grooming behaviour via electronic means. By comparison, only five of the 40 interim suspensions undertaken in 2022 related to allegations involving electronic communications.
Oddly, the Age is willing to tell us all sorts of details about this grim new frontier in teacher abuse… except for one little thing.
Investigations undertaken by the VIT have uncovered high volumes of communication between teachers and students, sometimes over multiple platforms and at inappropriate times when a young person is more likely to be alone, such as late at night.
Other characteristics common to the communications under investigation include teachers being “overly personal” in nature, seeking information about a student’s private and social life, making overly personal comments and persistently raising inappropriate topics of conversation.
Okay, but is there anything else unusual or characteristic about these paedophile teachers?
In one case, the regulator cancelled Carey Grammar teacher Eleanor Yorke’s teaching registration for three years after she admitted to serious misconduct by contacting a student 35,000 times via Microsoft Teams before beginning a sexual relationship with them after they had graduated and turned 18.
And there it is: she. There is ample evidence that child sexual abuse perpetrated by women is on the rise. In just 15 years, the number of women in the criminal justice system for sexual offences has increased by a staggering 208 per cent. Many of the cases involve female teachers.
So, why are MSM like the ABC not only deliberately avoiding making the connection, but illustrating it with the ‘softest’ example they could find? Yorke may have waited until her target was out of school, but many, many female paedophile teachers do not.
Note also, the ‘punishment’ meted out: just three years’ suspension. Can anyone imagine a male teacher receiving such leniency?
With online learning becoming a growing and important part of education, [VIT chief executive officer Martin Fletcher] said a collective effort was required to keep children and young people safe when they were out of the classroom.
So, now we’re having to make a ‘collective effort’ to keep children safe from their teachers?
If this was any other profession – a profession not dominated by females and not dominated by the left – surely the MSM would be shouting it from the rooftops. After all, the ABC has been zealous in its pursuit of priests.
When it comes to the lefty women in classrooms, though? Crickets.
