Inappropriate relationships
A teacher we will rename named "Markus Brandon" for privacy reasons opened up 8 months ago (Before Monday, February 13th, 2023) about pedophilia in schools.
He said this:
I was a high school and college teacher for thirty years. In that time, I've seen some of these "inappropriate relationships." Here are some things they all had in common:
1. The teachers doing this are always very popular with students but have a reputation for being immature.
2. The administration will try to cover it up if they can, but the public never hear of most of these cases.
3. Men and women offend in roughly equal numbers.
3. Men and women offenders are treated differently. In the last five cases at schools where I taught, three men had sex with students and two women. The three men were all charged criminally; the two women were not. One of the two women had sex with at least eight students and exhibited no remorse. She's married, and she and her husband are still together.
4. Teachers who report this terrible behavior of their colleagues are punished and ostracized. I know because I was one of those teachers. I reported a very popular English teacher for having sex with her students after one of the students confided in me. I had to leave the school the following year because I was harassed by staff and administration after she was forced to resign.
5. Most teachers who do this are allowed to quietly resign mid-school year and go on to teach elsewhere. Everyone on staff knows the offending teachers and turns a blind eye. Cops have the Blue Wall of Silence; teachers have the Chalk Wall of Silence.