Wolves in Teachers’ Clothes

A 2017 statistic found that 10% of K-12 students “will experience sexual misconduct [from] a school employee by the time they graduate high school.” Using the 2021 estimate of students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, 49.4 million, that means nearly 5 million will become victims of sexual predators. That estimate is likely higher since it only represents documented crimes. If this seems extreme, Google the phrase “teacher has sex with students” and you’ll find weekly updates. This should be enough to send every loving parent over the edge.

Cornell Law describes gross negligence as:

A lack of care that demonstrates reckless disregard for the safety and lives of others, which is so great it appears to be a conscious violation of other people’s rights to safety … A heightened degree of negligence representing an extreme departure from the ordinary standard of care.

Certainly, the ordinary standard of care in public schools should involve protecting children from pedophiles…right?

WOLVES IN PUBLIC EDUCATION

Without admitting any fault, Redlands Unified School District paid out over $45 million to settle 16 sexual abuse lawsuits brought by former students, according to CBS News. A total of 50 victims accused 25 teachers of rape and sexual assault between 1999 and 2022. In all cases, the district allegedly knew about the employees violating students but did nothing to report or prevent the crimes.

Now consider the 38-year-old Tennessee elementary teacher — facing 23 rape and sexual abuse charges for violating 21 students (ages 12-17) — who claims to be pregnant by a teenage victim. This school district allowed one educator to accumulate almost half the amount of victims as 25 teachers! That’s insane. And if you are of the mindset that only male employees prey on students, you’re sadly mistaken. Predators in public schools appear to be about 35-45% female — this is an unscientific estimate based on the amount of public school sexual abuse cases I encounter every week.

In government schools, heinous moral crimes are perpetrated on children as young as two and three years old. School districts across America use taxpayer dollars to fund drag queen story hours for toddlers. K-5 school libraries contain pornographic novels with themes of homosexuality, rape, and incest. Male and female students are forced to share private spaces while the number of adults with access to minors continues to increase. The new wave of childcare providers are called “School Social Workers” and they exist to foster emotion-based “safe spaces” for students. Add to all this, teaching kids they evolved from primates (evolution), that there is no God (foolishness), and that an apology is the only necessary consequence for criminal behavior (restorative justice).

Parents, this is the embodiment of gross negligence running rampant in our education systems.

Arizona districts from hell

In 2023, Arizona topped out with 65 cases of teachers who were disciplined for inappropriate conduct toward students. Of course, this represents a small number of wolves that were caught. To be sure, predators in the education system are not limited to teachers. I’ll share three prime examples of child exploitation involving other staff members in Arizona schools.

• Tucson Unified School District (TUSD): In April 2022, TUSD held its first annual student-led drag show sponsored by Tucson Magnet High School (TMHS) counselors, promoted by board members, and defended by every pervert in Pima and Pinal counties. One counselor who helped organize the event was charged with engaging in lesbian sex with a 15-year-old student. Regardless, another TMHS drag show occurred in April 2023. Via the district’s equity, diversity, and inclusion program, students and community members are groomed to carry on intimate conversations and foster ideas of perverted sexual practices among minors.

• Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD): In January 2024, an FUSD bus driver — who’d only been on staff a few months — was arrested on allegations of luring a child for sexual exploitation. In April, the district made headlines after their ignorant board president, Christina Fredericks, led the vote to infuse sex education curriculum with transgender ideology. FUSD even hosted a “name change clinic” in February for students who no longer identify with their biological sex.

• Mesa Public Schools (MPS): Myself and other East Valley residents have written extensively about this district’s diabolical plan to secretly transition students’ gender since 2015. The plan involves teachers but hinges on counselors and other “emotional support” staff who coax students into accepting the idiotic transgender ideology. Board Member Rachel Walden — who’s suing the district for violating AZ’s parental bill of rights — is the only public servant with the decency and bravery to fight on behalf of innocent children.

Dishonorable mention goes to Peoria Unified School District basketball coach Patrick Battillo, who solicited lewd photos from students to allegedly sell the images. When a student found out that Battillo was the “buyer,” they confided in a teacher, Holly Holgate, who then alerted the pervert giving him time to leave campus before police arrived. In this case, there was still a wolf in teacher’s clothes.

WOLVES IN PRIVATE EDUCATION

Unfortunately, private institutions are not entirely without fault for failing to protect the innocence and dignity of minors on school grounds. In the case of one Arizona private school, the wolf posed as a Christian and groomed his way into the heart of the faith community. Were there any flags? Most likely, but as the saying goes, “Hindsight is 2020.” Every predator — all of them, regardless of how familiar or charming they are — always leaves a pattern or trail.

Hiring administrators have to get better at detecting those patterns, following those trails, and questioning “quirky” behaviors. Child sexual abuse prevention training must now become the focal point of adequately screening applicants. If something seems “off,” don’t ignore that feeling. On the contrary, if the educator says all the right things and checks all the right (religious) boxes, it could be that the absence of flaws, the ease with which they “fit in,” or their eagerness to earn trust, are the red flags.

At this point, no one would blame a superintendent for being too cautious or suspicious of those who take an immediate interest in children — including those with a state license and fingerprint clearance. Just because they pass a background check, doesn’t mean they’ve never committed a crime. Now, of course, the average teacher is not a predator, so we must avoid a “guilty until proven innocent” stance. I’m not talking about paranoia here but about operating in high, supernatural dimensions of discernment, and implementing a recruitment, onboarding, probationary process that’s above reproach.

A particularly vile case of betrayal in private education involves a sexual abuse victim who was repeatedly raped and assaulted — on school grounds — for two years, starting at nine years old. There is no way leadership knew nothing or that this pervert left no pattern. Watch the report here or below.

Sexual abuse in public schools remains more pervasive than private school…at least for the moment. This may be due to the level of access adults have to children in public schools where students are typically in contact with numerous staff members throughout the day (teachers, coaches, counselors, janitors, bus drivers, etc). There’s also block-scheduling which requires students to change instructors and classrooms every couple hours. By comparison, depending on the private school’s enrollment size, the staff is generally smaller, turnover is less frequent, and students are often enrolled on a cohort schedule (meaning they start and graduate with the same classmates and handful of instructors).

Suffice it to say, the days of readily trusting adults with other people’s children are coming to a hard close.

WHAT MUST PARENTS DO TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN?

First, parents must accept the sad reality that 93% of child sex abuse victims know their predators (this not only includes teachers but also pastors, family friends, neighbors, and relatives). Parents must know and believe that public education is a systematic, federally-funded program to seduce underdeveloped minds, mandate sex education, and desensitize children to all inappropriate contact with authority figures. Parents are becoming just as guilty of gross negligence by sending their kids to government schools.

Second, parents must PAY ATTENTION. Busyness is not an excuse to neglect emotional, psychological, physical, or spiritual changes in children. Downsize and simplify your life to prioritize your children. Also, there’s no reason anyone under 18 in your house should have an inordinate amount of privacy. If you pay the bills, then the bedroom, the cell phone, and the computer are your property. You set the rules and boundaries that determine how that property is used. Hold yourself accountable to these rules and boundaries. Discipline them consistently — even when you “don’t feel like fighting” — and your child will know you mean business.

Lastly, your child’s teacher (or friends, social media feed, etc.) should not be the first to talk to them about sex. Whatever discomfort you may feel broaching the topic pales in comparison to caring for a naïve, sexually damaged child or pregnant teen. Be the leading voice in their lives at all ages, phases, and stages. If you’re a Christian, Scripture is full of conversation starters about sex (assuming you read the Bible). God is not a prude. He created our sex organs, gave us the ability to experience pleasure, and intended sex to be enjoyed in a monogamous marriage between a biological man and woman. Government employees have no right to initiate these kinds of conversations with your children.

If you’ve read this far and you still need motivation to pull your kids from public schools, five reasons are listed here.

Finally, a CBS News anchor asked a field correspondent, “Why are so many districts protecting predatory teachers instead of the children?” The reporter responded:

It’s considered ‘passing the trash.’ When some school districts hear of allegations of teacher sexual abuse, they would rather let them quietly go on their way, write them a recommendation to go to another district, or let their contract expire without notifying the public … they don’t want to risk the reputation of the school district...

When I asked the chief enforcer of civil rights in our nation’s schools about this problem, they affirmed it and said, ‘This is a phenomenon of child abuse that we let persist and happen right under our noses.’

When I asked, ‘How do you know if your child’s school is safe?’ They told me:

‘You can be sure your child’s school is not safe.’