Supportive Data Regarding Another One Of My Dots

For those who think I just pull this stuff out of the air or maybe some other place, here is a post from "The Gradebook":

"How many rotten apples are there?"


For those who don't understand why the teaching profession and public education is not held in high reverence, just think about the statistics that have been kept hidden. Additionally, every one of these "isolated incidents" effects a family, not just one person. Additionally, every one that works within the system that hides the dirty secrets is compromised. Everyone makes mistakes, but when it becomes a cultural acceptance to "look the other way", systems suffer.

From "The Gradebook", we have this statement:

"In its 2003 series, "Coaches Who Prey," the Seattle Times found 159 coaches in Washington state who had been fired or reprimanded over the course of a decade for sexual misconduct. The newspaper found at least 98 of those coaches continued to coach or teach.

Closer to home, the Sarasota Herald Tribune reported last year – after a two-year investigation – that more than 300 Florida teachers have been punished in recent years for sexual misconduct and nearly 450 more for physically attacking or verbally terrorizing students. And yet, the Herald Tribune found, more than half of those teachers kept their teaching licenses and at least 150 of them were still teaching in Florida."

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Now maybe my post about the cows always coming home and the chickens always roosting has more credibility, even if I did just grow up on the farm, and actually did ride on the turnip truck.

A little anecdotal information just adds to the story.