https://www.krqe.com/video/aps-teacher-charged-in-the-sexual-assault-of-two-students/6282951/
There have always been some teachers, mostly, male who have sexually abused students at their elementary, middle or high schools. Many other adults who work in schools, like student counsellors (psychologists) or members of admininistration, and so on, also have criminal convictions for the sexual abuse of underage students in their schools.
I would say that most teachers in America are Democrats and probably members of teachers. unions. This is the case in Australia where the vast majority of teachers are employed by their state government and work in State Government Primary Schools and High Schools, almost all of these teachers vote for the Left and are members of teachers unions.
Any young person who does an education major at a college in the US and go on to work as a teacher, would likely have been told, emphatically, his/her wiser peers:
"No, No - don't do it . Teaching is one of the worst jobs in the world !. The ones that ignore this advise, are the kind of naive liberal/progressive species of people who want to change the world and help mankind progress toward utopia. They see themselves as "saviours" whose vocation in life is to inspire children through teaching lessons in which they have lovingly interwoven the principles of: freedom; justice, equailty.
Once they gratuate from college and have their college degree and teaching certification. This newly -minted teacher discovers that whether it is a middle school, elemementry school or high school. They find trying to teach in a typical classrooms in a standard, modern-day American public (government run) middle/high school is like being a US sapper trapped at Khe Sanh, back in 1968, taking in non-stop heavy fire from the NVA and Viet Cong, and totally pinned down. The classrooms are miniature theatres of war. You will find that your students have no respect for you authority as an adult with is a teacher with special knowledge and skills. And if you thought that today's high school students would sit quiety and pay full attention to what you wanted to say in your lesson, says on Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet" ( actually, Shakespeare is a Dead White Male, so he's off the English Lit curriculum permanently, so let's replace
"Romeo and Juliet" with something classic, but politically correct, like "The Vagina Monologues") - FORGET IT. They will be too busy playing with their iPhones, arranging drugs deals; engaged in inter-ethic/racial scuffles; and even if they were all, polite, well behaved students about 33% roughly of your class will lack the IQ to have any meaning ful understanding of what you are teaching them on any given day.
The new teacher will soon learn that classroom teaching is a extremely emotionally, mentally and physically exhausting job. Every day is the same, when the bell rings for the end of the school day, you drive home and preety much just flop on your bed totally ennervated and with a massive tension headache After you recover, you have between two and three hour of bureaucratic paperwork that MUST be attended to.
The salary you are paid is SHIT. (seiouslyly) untless you haven to be teaching in an exclusive, elite private school (fee-paying schools) like the kind that
Comrade Obama, "Crooked Hillary" and Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren (the neo-Marxist) sent their own darling children to. If so you might get a few more bucks in your monthly pay packet. But generally speaking, in government-run, US schools, the pay is very, very poor.
These are just some of the reasons that the turnover-rate for teachers is so high. The bright-eyed-and-bushy- tailed newbie that starts teaching in an American school/s only lasts about FOUR years on average, before they think "Fuck this for a game of soldiers." Then,"like a Bat outta Hell !" they're gone, BIG TIME. The Department of Education (or whoever is the relevent government education bureaucracy) couldn't really give a rat's ass, because, they'll always be able to obtain a supply of fresh "cannon- fodder". There'll always be an adequate supply of dopes they can entice into taking a college major in education in their state. They might have to drop the SAT score for the course a little more (
again - and it's already very low) to let some real dead-heads into the degree course, and ultimately put them up as teachers in the state's school classrooms. But hey, its all alreally just child-minding these days anyway and watered-down, leftist, BS. It not like anything imporatant has to be taught - Daffy Duck could do it.
Teachers are draw from the dregs of the academic barrel. In Australia today, the state governments are finding it so difficult to keep teachers in classrooms of their schools that they have droped our equivalent od the SAT score nee
Given the diabolical working conditions, the low salary, the chronic toll on your emotional, mental and physical health and well-being, the rock-bottom levels of job satisfaction, that classroom teachers have to endure, only a fool would devote 30 or 40 years to being a school teacher.
Getting back to the abnormal proportion of sex offenders who are teachers that have been apprehended sexually abusing students... One reason for this, of course, is access. If a teacher is a paedolphile or inclined to sexually molest/abuse underage children or adolescents, then working in a school provides plenty of potential targets. Also teachers are placed in a postion of trust where they are are allowed to interact with students unsupervised, thus allowing classroom behaviours associated with sexual grooming, etc, to take place unmonitored.
My theory is that teachers who abuse school children are likely to be older males.
The reason is that teaching in public middle schools ar high schools is such a dreadful job in every reagard : pay, conditions, chronic psychological and physical stress. It makes no sense that a young person in their 20's would remain in the job more than 4 to 5 years (
MAX) So teachers who are still working full-time in schools and aged in their 40's or 50' or maybe even 60's (though I don't think there would be many teachers in the US still working full-time in 2021) are suspect. WHY exactly are they working as full-time class room teachers: the pay is shit; the working conditions are diabolical, the constant high levels of stress, frustration, anger, meaninglessless are pathological - are they masochists and morons at the same time ?
I would say that the male libido (sex drive) is particularly strong and if a person is a sexual deviate who is attracted to under-aged youth, then (1) He will seek out employment as a school. As unappealing as classroom teaching is, the deviant's
"libido" may be strong enough make him stay in the school environment because of the easy access to sexual targets it provide