Friday, May 06, 2005

Student abuse

Roguepundit proposes (actually he has been proposing this for a while) a one strike and you're out rule for teachers who sexually abuse their students.
This is another example of why we need to have a one-strike-and-you're-out policy for sexual molesters in any profession that works with children. People with a history of sexual molestation should be kept away from those they desire. That helps protect everyone from their unacceptable urges.
Today, society understands more than it did 15-20 years ago about the high recidivism rate of child molesters. Schools try not to hire people with dodgy pasts. But with the number of closed settlements in cases regarding molestation charges, how can authorities be sure they're not hiring someone whose ugly tendencies have been documented, but hidden?
Apparently, they guy that Roguepundit is talking about was caught having a sexual relationship with a student at Willamina High School, but was reinstated just 3 years later, and then did it again.
If you think that the schools in this state have a good policy toward protecting their students from this sort of thing, you would be sadly mistaken.

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