RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 17, 2015 at 6:28 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2015 at 6:41 pm by Randy Carson.)
(June 17, 2015 at 6:21 pm)whateverist Wrote:(June 17, 2015 at 5:14 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Here is site that offers multiple sources if you click on "read more"
Well I did look into it and found it based on just one report filed by a Ms. Shakeshaft of Hofstra University. Many news sources trumpeted it as "news many were afraid to report". But by far, many more shamelessly did pass this unsound report on. This report by Wendy McElroy exposes many flaws. One passage of McElroy's report:
Quote:Among the questions asked of students by the one AAUW study was, “during your whole school life, how often, if at all, has anyone (this includes students, teachers, other school employees, or anyone else) done the following things to you when you did not want them to? Made sexual comments, jokes, gestures or looks.” A list of 13 other behaviors follows.
The question seems to be the nexus at which sexual abuse in school is established. Thus, the 10 percent figure properly includes “sexual abuse” by fellow students and other non-school employees. That fact alone invalidates the AAUW study for Shakeshaft’s purposes. It also invalidates her conclusions.
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1331
It looks to me as if Shakeshaft is a discredited source, and the only source, for exaggerated figures for sexual abuse in the public schools. I'm going back to find out more about Shakeshaft and whether Hofstra or any other university is still associated with her. This looks like your typical conspiracy theory. Child abuse happens wherever adults work with kids. But it is telling that so many Catholic websites are still trumpeting Shakeshaft's report. Rather than unearthing a coverup by the public schools, it looks as though you have brought to our attention one more attempt to by the Catholic church to spin its cover-up of its own sex scandals.
So many Catholic sites are trumpeting the study because it was commissioned by the Department of Education - not the Catholic Church - and because idiots on the Internet are still repeating the kind of crap that is seen in your post.
This Wikipedia article suggests that there was some ambiguity between sexual harassment and sexual abuse...but not ambiguity about students being sexually abused by other students. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charol_Shakeshaft
For example, Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of House, is currently under investigation for a number of issues. And he is accused of having a sexual relationship with a high school student which occurred when? When Hastert was a high school coach.
Here are some other non-Catholic sources:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/has-media-ig...in-school/
http://www.newsweek.com/priests-commit-n...ales-70625