9.6% of students in grades 8–11 reported unwanted educator sexual misconduct. A 2010 article summarized that as school abuse being “100 times worse” than priest abuse. (ERIC) Why Is School Sexual Abuse Not Treated Like a National Scandal? Every time another teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with a student, the story gets attention for a day or two, then disappears. But if we are being honest, this is not just a “bad teacher” problem. It is an institutional tr