36 Percent Uptick in Texas Teacher-Student Sex Cases over Last Year, Data Show
The following story, that ran in Breitbart News, makes you wonder why there’s a buffer around schools for registrants, when it’s not them committing the sexual assaults… it’s the teachers.
For the ninth consecutive year, the number of Texas teachers accused of sexual misconduct with students skyrocketed, this time to an all-time high of 302. This reflects a 36 percent increase for the 2016-17 school year.
On Wednesday, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) confirmed for Breitbart Texas they opened 302 cases in 2016-17, an uptick of 36 percent when compared to the 222 investigations the agency launched during fiscal year 2015-16.
This also represents a 145 percent increase in teacher-student sexual misconduct cases since 2008-09, the year when the TEA began tracking such incidences. Then, the number of reported cases totaled 123. The agency also accounted for 141 investigations in 2009-10, 152 in 2010-11, 156 in 2011-12, 163 in 2012-13, 179 in 2013-14, 188 in 2014-15, and 222 in 2015-16.
Troubled by the growing problem, some state lawmakers met in December 2015, between legislative sessions, to seek policy solutions for this rampant problem ravaging Texas classrooms. The resulting legislation, Senate Bill 7 (SB 7), became law this year. On September 1 it went into effect, cracking down on education professionals who form inappropriate sexual, romantic, or emotional bonds with students.
Looks like the bureaucrats are going to have to establish a 1000 foot rule for school teachers. When was the last time I heard of an RSO causing any problems on school grounds? Are the efforts by the bureaucrats to ‘correct’ the problem an example of ‘corruption of trying to correct corruption’?
Speaking of this subject – have any of you seen that commercial (I forget the company now – I think it is an insurance company or something) where the teacher (or one assumes it is a teacher because she is older than the male and the building she leaves is most obviously a school) comes out of the school and is going to jump on the bicycle of an obviously younger male and they say something like “This is not right” and the male says something like “It is the only way for us to be together” Then they ride away on the bike but fall over onto the grass and the “teacher” gets up and runs back into the school. And then the advertisement is something about bad decisions. Now granted they never say it is a teacher and a student and they never say anything about ages etc. but it is certainly in very poor taste and the message is implied. Has anyone else seen this?