Any individual endeavoring to create a career working and mentoring children is considered by society as having answered a higher and noble calling, through their dedication to nurturing our most valuable resource – our youth. While this is usually an accurate statement, there are those that utilize their position of trust for a sinister and alternative motive, to use, abuse and degrade the most vulnerable segment of society, while maintaining the guise of a professional educator.
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Once an individual demonstrates themselves to be a predatory personality, they immediately lose their status of trust and position not only within the educational system, but within the community as a whole. These wolves in sheep’s clothing should instantaneously be removed from their employment, and never allowed access to children in any circumstance ever again.
Given the onslaught in the numbers of cases involving predatory teachers in the last decade or so, there would appear to be a double-standard in applying the full weight of laws to both male and female predatory teachers equally. There have been numerous instances where a female teacher convicted of predatory activities have received little more than a slap on the wrist from the legal system, while male teachers in the same circumstance have near maximum criminal penalties on nearly every occasion. Common sense would dictate we as a culture collectively question the logic and message sent by the judicial system responding to the most heinous of crimes in such as cavalier manner.
Any school system or individual administrator that even briefly considers allowing an individual that has demonstrated themselves to be a risk to children to gain access should be removed from their position immediately. This goes beyond the employment of teachers, and should apply with equal importance to educational support staff as well. Cases of inappropriate conduct that result in findings that the allegations are false are in a totally separate category, and should be handled as such. Furthermore, those found guilty of predatory behavior should not only be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but it should become a national law that they are never allowed access to children in any capacity ever again. Perhaps a national data bank of predatory school employees would result in less chance of recidivism on behalf of the predatory offenders.
In any case, it is the responsibility of the local community through a collective effort to ensure the safety of all children, in all circumstances.
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