Thank you as well Tiffany for your strength and your voice! I look to you all for inspiration when sometimes I just want to quit. A little voice in my head says “This isn’t your problem”.
But then, the louder voice and my conscience kicks in. It’s about the children, the vulnerable, (women, men &, those with disabilities) I can’t do much, but I can shine a light. I am retired now, but I was a teacher/administrator in public schools for over 40 years. This is in my wheelhouse
Despite the prevailing myth about teachers being “groomers”, the reverse is true. Many of us are trained to spot signs of abuse (all types) and report directly to law enforcements. Not to school administration, not to bosses- law enforcement and/or child protective services. Always!
When a predator is discovered in public schools (with accountability more prevalent in all blue states) the predator is usually convicted, loses teaching credentials, must register as a sex offender, and isnever allowed near kids in k-12 schools again if the prison sentence allows release.
These predators are never “applauded” by their school colleagues or reinstated in ANY form or fashion. The people around the predator do not allow them near prey just because the predator “repented” and asked for forgiveness. That is absolute crazy making!!! Children and the vulnerable are AlWAYS at heightened risk.
Sorry I’m venting. The numbers point directly to the Evangelical and RC churches as the big breeding grounds for sexual predation in this country -rigid religious institutions, run by powerful men, with little accountability. This HAS to STOP.
I’ve been called a Jezebel more times than I can count in subtweets and direct replies from some of these loud, powerful immature men with absolutely convoluted and unhealthy boundaries about sexuality, gender, responsibility, etc.
I’ll stay in the fight! The kids, the women, the young men, and those with disabilities are worth it.
You all are staying in the fight. I can too in my small way.
I agree powerful sentence and spot on
Thank you Julia
Thank you as well Tiffany for your strength and your voice! I look to you all for inspiration when sometimes I just want to quit. A little voice in my head says “This isn’t your problem”.
But then, the louder voice and my conscience kicks in. It’s about the children, the vulnerable, (women, men &, those with disabilities) I can’t do much, but I can shine a light. I am retired now, but I was a teacher/administrator in public schools for over 40 years. This is in my wheelhouse
Despite the prevailing myth about teachers being “groomers”, the reverse is true. Many of us are trained to spot signs of abuse (all types) and report directly to law enforcements. Not to school administration, not to bosses- law enforcement and/or child protective services. Always!
When a predator is discovered in public schools (with accountability more prevalent in all blue states) the predator is usually convicted, loses teaching credentials, must register as a sex offender, and isnever allowed near kids in k-12 schools again if the prison sentence allows release.
These predators are never “applauded” by their school colleagues or reinstated in ANY form or fashion. The people around the predator do not allow them near prey just because the predator “repented” and asked for forgiveness. That is absolute crazy making!!! Children and the vulnerable are AlWAYS at heightened risk.
Sorry I’m venting. The numbers point directly to the Evangelical and RC churches as the big breeding grounds for sexual predation in this country -rigid religious institutions, run by powerful men, with little accountability. This HAS to STOP.
I’ve been called a Jezebel more times than I can count in subtweets and direct replies from some of these loud, powerful immature men with absolutely convoluted and unhealthy boundaries about sexuality, gender, responsibility, etc.
I’ll stay in the fight! The kids, the women, the young men, and those with disabilities are worth it.
You all are staying in the fight. I can too in my small way.