Groomers Really Are Everywhere

Public schools have a grooming problem, and I’m not just talking about the obvious.

While there is much attention given to the problem of teachers indoctrinating children into the LGBTQIA+ religion, that is only one aspect of the larger problem public schools face with pedophiles or ephebophiles infiltrating their schools.

When I was researching into scandals involving pedophile priests in the Catholic Church, I discovered this problem for the first time. As a practicing Catholic I was bothered by by the phenomenon itself, and by the fact that all the attention was focused on the Church’s problems rather than the ubiquity of child grooming in other churches and especially in the public schools.

While pedophilia is a serious problem wherever it occurs, attention has been drawn to the issue based on whether the pedophiles are found in well-respected or poorly-respected institutions. The problem is often swept under the carpet because public schools are respected institutions (just like the Churches once were).

The answer is yes. Chicago Public Schools got a wake-up call through an inspector general’s report. It should be more than a slap on the face. It should be a punch in the gut to the schools and parents whose children are at high risk.

Chicago Public Schools teachers were accused of sexually grooming, assaulting and raping hundreds of CPS students in the last school year.

That’s according to The CPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG), released the report this weekAccording to the company, it has received over 600 “adult on student” For the 2021-22 schoolyear, misconduct allegations were substantiated in more than half of them. In 16 cases, criminal charges were brought against the perpetrators.

One of them is a CPS Teacher. “groomed and sexually assaulted” A 17-year-old student was photographed on three occasions. The student “said that she began to think of him as her friend and therapist” He also said that “touched and groped the student while hugging her, touching her thighs and buttocks under the pretext of removing lint from her clothing.”

“I like the way you look in your jeans,” the student recounted the teacher as saying.

Allegations were levelled against the teacher “in part corroborated by text messages on the CPS- sanctioned Remind app, Snapchat records, and a student witness who overheard a conversation between the teacher and student” as well as the teacher’s own statements.

The teacher Who is currently fighting termination at the Illinois State Board of Education?He was accused of multiple counts for sexual assault, but was cleared by a Cook County jury.

The number of allegations of abuse in one school district was more than 600. This gives you an idea about the extent of the problem. In the 52-year span, there were 11,000 sexual abuse allegations in Catholic schools across the United States. This would mean that the CPS would witness 2 1/2 times the number of incidents of abuse in the same period as the Catholic Church.

Obviously we can’t assume a constant rate of abuse in either institution, so the comparison is simply for scale. While we do not have any reliable statistics that cover the whole country, the scale of this problem clearly dwarfs those in other walks of society.

Public school teachers are encouraged to be more intimate with students every year, even to the point where they encourage students to have secret conversations about sexuality and keep their parents in line.

This is dangerous and wrong. The inspector general report makes it clear why. We are already putting children and adults into close contact daily, and the more intimate these relationships become the more dangerous they can be. I was a student in 1970s school and had seen many cases of sexual relationships between teachers and students.

No one would have supported teachers or students keeping secrets from their parents in the past; it is now school policy. How could this be considered not to be dangerous?

It is common to find teachers claiming that they love their students more than their parents. School policies also assume that sexual issues should be discussed in intimate relationships between students and teachers. Teachers can discuss sexual practices and show students how to use sex toys. They also share sexual manuals with students. Encouraged by school boards and administrations.

In such settings, it is normal for students to have sexual contact with teachers. This is grooming.

OIG found out that a CPS Junior ROTC Staff member had sex in a CPS high school with a female CPS student. “over the course of a year when she was 16 to 17 years old,” Offering her alcohol and asking her to purchase marijuana from fellow students.

An investigation revealed “hundreds of text messages and calls” CPS staff member and student “overtly sexual” ones.

“I’m ready to f*** right now … I’m not gonna be gentle either,” The staff member sent the student a text message.

He later “threatened to kill the student and her family” If they disclose the relationship to investigators.

Other sex incidents include:

— An employee of a CPS vendor “asked a fourth-grade student why her lips were chapped, and then stated that the student’s lips were chapped because she was ‘sucking dick.’

— CPS high school gym teacher who repeatedly exposed himself to one sophomore girl and connected with another 15 year old student on social media and “sent her photos and videos of himself masturbating and engaged in other sexual acts.”

—A CPS substitute teacher who “asked a student to recruit another student for a ‘threesome,” told another student he loved her, repeatedly attempted to kiss a student and asked her “to make out with him,” commented on a student’s “hickey” He described himself to students in the following: “well hung.”

—A CPS elementary teacher who “sexually touched” He was a CPS student several times over the years, from 11 to 14 years of age. He also “purchased food and gifts for the student and members of his family,” And “spent the night in the student’s bedroom, having sex with the student.”

–A CPS charter school administrator who “took a high school junior to a Broadway musical in downtown Chicago.” The administrator is alleged to have intervened during the performance. “touched the student’s leg with his own” Then, drive the student home. “slid his hand down inside of the front of the student’s pants and touched his genitals.”

The administrator later took the student on trips to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, London, Ibiza and the Bahamas.

–An employee of a CPS vendor asked a 19 year-old female student to dinner,  sent her a nude photo of himself and asked if he could join her while she was babysitting.

–A CPS high school teacher exchanged “approximately 4,000 (text) messages” With a female student for more than two years, “400 on one day.” The teacher stated that the student was a good student. “bisexual” And “that he was in an open marriage and was attracted to other people.”

Another student was asked by the same teacher “to show him her underwear” And, as they were speaking in his office, he called him. “asked if she wanted to take her clothes off.”

–An employee of a CPS vendor “called a fourth-grade female student ‘sexy’ and made other prohibited comments to her about her physical appearance.”

The CPS OIG presented to the CPS Board of Education August a report that it had opened investigations into 81 cases of sexual touching, 35 cases of grooming and 33 cases of abuse. It also investigated 26 cases of sexual acts and 25 cases of in-person comments. There were 14 sexual electronic communications and eight cases of sexual assault. “outcry about past (sexual) conduct and 243 cases it deemed “concerning: other.”

“Concerning: other” cases “may involve leering, ‘creepy’ Behaviors that could be considered as concerning.

This is only for one school district.

We need to get sex out of schools; that won’t prevent abuses, but it will certainly reduce their incidence and stop encouraging their proliferation.

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