Which Should I be More Worrid About Sending My Child To, Public Schools or Sunday Schools?

Question

A recent AP investigation in which reporters sought disciplinary records in all 50 states and the District of Columbia found 2,570 educators whose teaching credentials were revoked, denied, surrendered or sanctioned from 2001 through 2005 following allegations of sexual misconduct.

By comparison, between 1950 and 2002, there were 4,400 Catholic Priests accused of the same crime.

So, 2570 sexual offenders in 5 years or 4,400 in 52; which are you more concerned about sending your children too?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071020/ap_on_re_us/teacher_sex_abuse

Cora,
From the article (regarding misconduct by educators):

Young people were the victims in at least 1,801 of the cases, and more than 80 percent of those were students. At least half the educators who were punished by their states also were convicted of crimes related to their misconduct.

One report mandated by Congress estimated that as many as 4.5 million students, out of roughly 50 million in American schools, are subject to sexual misconduct by an employee of a school sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade. That figure includes verbal harassment that's sexual in nature.

Answer 1

Admittedly, there are risks with either. However, your question begs the answer that both public schools and Sunday schools (or CCD if you're Catholic) are VOLUNTARY. You needn't send your kid(s) to either. If you can't afford a private school (or don't feel safe there either), you can homeschool or take part in one of the new home school "collectives" (where each parent takes a day or a subject to teach -- preferably one in which he or she specialized).

Same with religious education -- if you're worried about your kid being abused (or being badly catechized), then take it upon yourself to teach him or her the tenets of your faith.

It's a product of the "entitlement" culture that people no longer consider it their responsiblity to fund, educate, and discipline the kids they brought into the world.

Answer 2

I went to each public and individual college and I located that the important change used to be the individual college youngsters would have enough money extra medications. And I'm being flawlessly severe. I ended up attending a public college for top college on account that it used to be a magnet college for humanities and arts and one of the most best rated faculties within the state. My more youthful brother presently attends a public magnet college for math and technology. My mom and dad observed (after seeing what number of medications there have been within the individual faculties and the way snotty the ones youngsters had been) that the first-rate wager used to be to discover a magnet college which might preclude the ones disorders, make sure their kids received exceptional educations and maintain us aside from the "unhealthy youngsters" (sure, my mom and dad are elitists of the maximum quality). My mom and dad made the sacrifice of getting to force their youngsters half-hour to college although there used to be a college five mins from our condo. My mom and dad additionally had disorders with the truth that the entire individual faculties in our field had been devout faculties (despite the fact that I did attend a Montessori college for fundamental college). My son might be residence-schooled.

Answer 3

Public schools rock.

Answer 4

I went toa public school, by and large the teachers were good people, but the educational curriculum sucked.

Answer 5

Compare also the number of children who were actually abused -- tens of thousands in the Catholic priest scandals versus hundreds in public schools.

And of those 4400 priests accused -- most have been in the past decade -- a comparable time period -- the issue is that the abuse has been going on far longer in the churches because it was intentionally hidden for so long.

If you look at the details of those statistics -- over 90% of the firings or sanctions for "sexual misconduct" had nothing to do with child molestation -- and of the church scandals, the true facts and scope of the problem is just starting to come out.

Since that seems to be your sole focus -- I'll skip the analysis of which ones actually affect their education and thinking processes.

Answer 6

Public Schools, There are NO Catholic Priests in my Sunday School because I am not Catholic!!!

Answer 7

You get all kinds of sicko's in public places...public school's are no exception.

Answer 8

Ask a kid. would they rather go to school one day a week, or five.

Answer 9

Sunday school will turn your kid into a feeble-minded pedophile, if that's what you want go for it.

Answer 10

public school.