My daughters, there has been a disturbing trend across the
United States which has become more and more frequent over the past few decades
and that trend is the inappropriate behavior of teacher misconduct, especially
in instances that are sexual in nature.
These manipulative and predatory incidents, without question controlled
by the adult, occur with adult teachers of both genders. In the contents of this letter, I will
analyze a few cases that have occurred in the current time era and in order to
determine whether this immoral trend has increased, maintained consistency, or
decreased when your children are brought forth….you may research news reports
and statistics at that time and make historical comparisons to the time period in
which I write.
The first thing that needs to be noted is that there is a
stereotypical attitude in American society that when an adult female teacher
conducts sexual misconduct and manipulation of a school boy it is less
disdainful compared to the male adult teacher who commits sexual misconduct
toward a female student. I took a quick
survey of views while writing this letter and for the most part everyone surveyed
agreed that both gender scenarios were immoral and wrong, but I noted that the
men surveyed considered the manipulation and exploitation by a male teacher on
a female student considerably worse than a female teacher having a sexual
relationship with a male student, while the women who were surveyed considered
both gender scenarios equally immoral and damaging to the youth. I have to assume that the different views on
this subject from the different viewpoints of men and women are shaped by the
current, and even historical, norms and values of American society which,
without question, is a rapidly degenerating society. This degeneration must be attributed, at
minimum to some level, to the mass produced inorganic popular culture this is
force fed to our people from youth.
Selecting one of the misconduct reports to analyze, I have
selected a report out of Kansas City were a 25 year old male teacher is accused
of having an inappropriate sexual relationship will a 14 year old female
student. Below is an excerpt of the news
report by KCTV 5:
“The girl told authorities that they had sexual relations
inside Rigby's classroom and at her home. She said they exchanged nude pictures
of each other via cell phone, and they had sex twice at her residence and at
least twice inside the classroom since last fall. In an interview May 16, the girl told police that
she had feared she had become pregnant and he had her take a pregnancy test,
which was negative. She claimed that he would have forced her to have an
abortion if she had been pregnant, according to court records. In an interview with Kearney school administrators,
Rigby denied having sexual relations with the girl. He said he had not sent
pictures of himself or received pictures of students on his cell phone,
according to police. An administrator
found a pregnancy test package in Rigby's desk drawer. One of the tests was
gone while the second, unused test remained in the packaging.” – (KCTV June 3,
2013)
The report, one of many similar reports across the United
States, brings forth a plethora of questions for consideration. The first question is where was the parental
monitoring of this young lady? The
allegations report that this sexual relationship not only took place in the
classroom, which is disturbing enough, but twice at her home. Why is this 25 year old man at this 13-14
year old girl’s home? And why is she
alone with this male teacher in the classroom (which is obviously isolated
enough for sexual contact without notice from the staff). What is the mindset of this so-called teacher
in his middle twenties and how did he slide through the cracks to become a
teacher in charge of minors?
In a second example from spring 2013, a male New York Middle
School teacher named Daniel Reilly was charged with, and pleaded guilty to,
sexual misconduct. The following
excerpts are from New York Daily News:
“A predatory former sixth-grade teacher who used cellphone
code names to hide an affair with his 14-year-old former student pleaded guilty
to statutory rape Monday. Former Queens
Intermediate School 237 teacher Daniel Reilly, 36, admitted to bedding a
14-year-old girl as recently as last month in the Queens apartment he shares with
his wife and baby daughter.”
From the same story, but from an ABC7 report:
“Police say 35-year-old Daniel Reilly carried on a more than
nine month affair with a former student that began when the girl was 14 years
old. Reilly was arrested at IS 237 in
Flushing, Queens, where he works as a sixth-grade English teacher. Police say the suspect taught the girl when
she was in elementary school, and she is not presently a student at the school
where he now teaches. The child's
parents called police Monday after the girl's sister read a series of
sexually-explicit text messages between Reilly and the victim. The sexual encounters allegedly took place at
Reilly's Forest Hills residence between August 2012 and April 2013.” (ABC 7
report – April 9, 2013).
Again we see a sexual relationship that has developed
between adult male teacher and a young female student. Despite being married with children, the
sexual encounters occurred at this teacher’s home. Again, the absence of parental monitoring
should be questioned and several hard questions must be posed: 1) Are our
American children given too much unmonitored freedom under the current moral condition
of American society? 2) Do our young
people attempt to enter an adult world too quickly under the mass produced impressions
of inorganic popular culture? 3) Are
these teenage victims responsible in any manner at all or have they been
mentally and emotionally manipulated by a predator to go to a married adult
male teacher’s house or other scenarios of manipulation?
For the third example, as the examples of teacher sexual
misconduct are limitless, we will look at a report from Pittsburgh in May 13,
2013 reported by CBS affiliate KDKA:
“….high school English teacher is now facing criminal
charges. He’s accused of sexually
assaulting several girls. Jonathan Crum,
28, an English teacher at Moniteau High School is in the Butler County Jail
facing 26 different counts of sexual misconduct involving students at the
school. “A lot of the sexual abuse
includes asking the children under 18 for indecent photographs and there was
some indecent contact as well,” a police officer said. State Police say the contacts started back as
early as September of 2009. They happened in school and included physical
touching, sexual pictures and other contacts, with at least five girls — all
underage at the time. “As far as our
investigation has led, the crimes all happened on Moniteau property some inside
the classroom,” the officer said.” (KDKA)
The fourth example is about a 28 year old female teacher in
Los Angeles who is accused of becoming pregnant by a 15-16 year old
student. The news report was published
in the L.A. Times on July 6, 2013.
“Laura Elizabeth Whitehurst, 28, joined the Redlands Unified
School District six years ago as an English teacher at Redlands High School and
allegedly began sexual relationships with two boys, one as young as 14,
authorities say.” (LA Times – July 6, 2013)
“Since the teacher's arrest, other former students have come
forward. Police said a 20-year-old man
told detectives that he began his relationship with her in the fall of 2007
when he was a 14-year-old freshman, Redlands police said. He said he and Whitehurst had sex in her
classroom before school, in her apartment and in her car, said Redlands police
spokesman Carl Baker. He told police the relationship ended in early 2008. Another alleged victim, now 22, told police
he had a sexual relationship with Whitehurst while she was his teacher at
Redlands High. He said the relationship took place when he was a junior at the
high school in 2007 and 2008, according to Baker. The man told authorities the relationship
began after a discussion about an English paper about dreams and she told him
she had a dream about kissing him. Whitehurst left Redlands High in 2009 and
worked at another school before going to Citrus Valley High.” (LA Times – July 6,
2013))
These four examples are all reports from 2013 and I could
probably post 10 pages of similar reports.
We will stop with four examples for this letter and begin to contemplate
the causes and possible solutions for this troubling trend.
The top cause would be a disintegrating moral fabric within
society and, specifically in these types of cases, being mastered by lower,
animalistic base desires on the part of the adult. The intellectual level of the adult must also
be called into question if they are actually engaging in a relationship with a
child, but in many cases the victim is being mentally and emotionally
manipulated by the predator. One may
question the statement concerning intellectual development of the adult, since
we are discussing teachers, but many teachers are not truly educated,
intellectually developed or morally disciplined…and have only managed to earn a
college teaching degree and a job recommendation in order to earn a paycheck in
a position of authority over American children (and this also is a problem with
the lack of true education in our American schools).
Another conundrum is the social positioning of our young
women in American society, which is clearly a confusing double standard. On the one hand, our young ladies are
considered children until the age of 18 while in many cases their bodies can
give birth much earlier even though their emotional and intellectual development
is still childlike. Should more emphasis
be placed on their protection and education?
Should we begin to prepare our children from an earlier age? We know that the American school system barely
covers these issues. Another area of
society that complicates matters is the mass produced inorganic popular culture
that influences our young ladies and subconsciously and conscious develops what
is considered cool and stylish in their society. In many cases, young ladies as early as 13 or
14 will attempt to dress as adults, imitate adults and inorganic popular
culture, and enjoy adult freedoms.
Please take some time to watch the television programs aimed at young
adults and see how many of these ‘harmless’ television programs encourage lying
to parents about things, maliciously self-destructive peer pressures, sexual promiscuity,
and careless social behaviors. It
amazes me that many parents, even in a society filled with predators and
consequences, will allow their daughters to go out during weeknights or
weekends with only a slight understanding of where they are and what they are
doing.
Proposal, arguments, and counter arguments for gender
segregation in public schools:
Proposal:
I strongly support gender segregation in public school
classrooms with male teachers teaching male students and female teachers teaching
female students. Under proper gender segregation,
teachers and students of the opposite sex would have no contact (especially one
on one contact). These prevention
mechanisms would greatly reduce incidents of teacher misconduct, sexual assault,
and would enhance concentration on educational development.
Argument #1:
Gender segregation in the classrooms would not stop same-gender
advances, teacher misconduct, assaults, and manipulation by predator teachers
who have slipped through the educational system.
Counter argument:
No, it would not, but gender segregation in public schools would
reduce the number of teacher misconduct, sexual assaults and inappropriate
relationship incidents by, at a minimum, half.
If there was an option to reduce by a large percentage these negative
incidents against our American children, why wouldn’t a reform policy such as
gender segregation in classrooms become implemented, or at minimum become an
option for tax paying citizens? There
should be an option for tax paying citizens to decide if their children will
attend gender segregated or gender integrated classrooms. For the most part, the only other option is
private schools, usually religious in nature, which brings various forms of fairy
tale religious indoctrinations with it.
Argument #2:
The ACLU, liberal views, and proponents of Feminism claim
that gender segregation in public schools would take the position of females in
society back several decades and that differing curriculums between classrooms
would reinforce old social stereotype of a male dominated society
structure. The argument of reduced
social interaction between boys and girls, which indeed can be productive to
educational development, is also placed forward.
Counter argument:
The proposal is not to alter public school curriculum, as
parental involvement is paramount to educational success, but to segregate male
and female students from same-gender teachers to reduce the current trends of
sexual misconduct by teachers. The
proposal is put forth to maintain equal state (or nationally) regulated
academic curriculums in both female and male classrooms with no differences
between curriculums. It is proposed that
public schools offering gender segregated classrooms hold regularly scheduled
inter-gender academic exercises, debates, and events for intellectual and
social exchanges between students, but that under no circumstances should a
teacher of one gender be allowed to establish contact, especially one on one
contact, with students of the other gender.
Gender segregated classrooms 1) would be aimed to reduce the
vulnerability of our children by predator teachers of the opposite gender, not to
completely cut-off social integration with opposite gender students 2) reduce the social distractions of the opposite
gender and social norms and values (during classroom time) in favor of
increased classroom attention and intellectual development 3) Does not support superiority of either gender
as the development of educational, moral and intellectual values of all American students are pertinent for the
future of the United States.
A few supplemental cases of teacher misconduct from 2013:
Kelly Ann Garcia (Houston) June 2013 (same gender
misconduct)
Kahtanna Culp (Houston) March 2013 Sexual relationship with
student
Elyse Cromwell (New Jersey) February 2013 Accused of a
sexual relationship with a 14 year old
DaNita Wilson (Georgia) January 2013 32 year old teacher
accused of having sex with seven students
George Hernandez, 45 (California) February 2012
Mark Berndt, 61, (California) charged with committing lewd
acts on 23 boys and girls, ages 6 to 10, between 2008 and 2010 at Miramonte
Elementary School
Alain Salas, 40, (California) February 2012, lewd texting to
a 15 year old girl
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