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 The Sinister Secret of our Schools

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Jul 21, 2001
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Hardly a week passes without another shocking news report about child abuse in our schools. Yet these terrible reports are only the tip of the iceberg. For every case of sexual abuse that reaches the media spotlight, countless others go unnoticed.

The unfortunate reality is that paedophilia is prevalent in schools and that society chooses to ignore the scale of the problem for fear of implicating itself. Now is the time to make a stand for what is right. Adequacy.org finally breaks the taboo surrounding institutionalised paedophilia in the educational system and exposes the terrible truth.

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Almost everyone who has attended school has a tale to tell about a teacher who looked at them in a strange way, or who touched them in a way that made them feel uncomfortable. For the unfortunate few, their experiences at the hands of teachers are far too painful and horrific to put into words.

The widespread problem of paedophilia and child abuse in our schools is one that society refuses to accept. In most cases, the victims of these crimes are too frightened to speak out against their attackers. Should one of these poor children be brave enough to report the crimes committed against them, the truth is covered up by school authorities who do not wish to expose themselves to a damaging lawsuit. In both cases, the perpetrators are allowed to walk free and continue their reign of terror.

In the few cases where one of these sick perverts is brought to justice, the problem is played down by governments who do not wish to cause alarm the electorate or to offend the powerful teachers' trade unions. There is a chain of guilt and no-one is willing to recognise or tackle the problem. Although society attempts to portray cases of child abuse in schools as infrequent isolated incidents, the teaching profession is rotten to the core.

To understand why paedophilia is endemic in schools, we must examine the motivations of individuals entering the teaching profession. There are few desirable aspects of a career in teaching - teachers are poorly paid and have a low social status. In many cases, the old adage "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" is true. The majority of teachers are well-adjusted citizens who simply don't have the qualifications or ability to succeed in proper careers. However, the motives of the remaining few must surely be questioned.

It is clearly not natural for people to wish to spend time in the company of the children of others. While it is perfectly normal to be around one's own offspring, the motives of anyone who wishes to work with children are questionable. Children simply do not have a sufficient level of emotional or intellectual development to be engaging company for an adult of average intelligence. Therefore, anyone who chooses to work in schools must obviously have unhealthy carnal desires for children. The argument that teachers enjoy their work because it satisfies their nurturing instincts is clearly fallacious. Since there is no evolutionary imperative to nurture the children of others, anyone who claims to have these instincts is almost certainly a liar and a repressed child abuser.

It has been ascertained that paedophiles are attracted to the teaching profession like flies to faeces. Numerous aspects of the educational system demonstrate how institutionalised this paedophilia has become. For example, school dress codes satisfy the unwholesome urges of uniform fetishists, while corporal punishment (now thankfully abolished in most schools) merely serves the interests of those with sadistic perversions.

By now, it should be apparent that we must not continue blindly placing our children into the "care" of these deviants. The time for decisive action is now upon us. To protect children from this menace, it is necessary for governments to recognise that there is an epidemic of paedophiles in our schools and to legislate accordingly.

The British Government has already taken the first step to solving this problem. It is now a legal requirement to ensure that all applicants to teaching jobs in the United Kingdom are not on the government's list of registered sex offenders. However, this legislation is still insufficient to eradicate the threat to our children.

Annual psychological evaluation of teachers, to check for any paedophilic tendencies may be a possible solution to the problem. Additionally, a telephone hotline that teachers may use to anonymously report colleagues who they suspect of abusing pupils may also help to protect our children.

These proposals are likely to attract opposition from teachers. However, the concerns of teachers are unimportant in comparison to preserving the innocence of our children. Frankly, any teachers who would oppose these measures must surely be trying to hide their own unnatural desire for children.

How many more young lives must be ruined before society recognises the threat to children and takes action to clean up our schools?


Hmmmm... (none / 0) (#1)
by Harvey Black on Sat Jul 21st, 2001 at 05:06:20 PM PST
I'm having trouble deciding what the best part is. The use of 'ae' where in standard english an 'e' will suffice, or the diagram with the two circles labeled "Teachers" and "Paedophiles" and a little red arrow that says "Danger" pointing to the space where the circles join. Regardless, I demand more stories be posted that include such conceits. I will get straight to work on my diagram featuring two circles labelled "Clowns" and "Sociopaths."


Not really a conceit (5.00 / 2) (#2)
by bc on Sat Jul 21st, 2001 at 05:36:23 PM PST
'Paedophile' is standard English, for it is the proper English english spelling, and the author is English. 'Pedophile' is just another example of USians dumbing down the language.

In my opinion, Adequacy.org should rigourously stick to English english. The French have the right idea with their language academy, for it stops the tongue being corrupted by the great unwashed.

English should have a similar institution, it is abused to a shocking degree. The logical location for an English Language Academy is Oxford, England.

The city which birthed the OED is well qualified to look after and standardise our tongue on the proper and correct English english model.

That done, perhaps we can get to work on dialects and accents. They are a sign of common origins and hinder effective communication. The Queen's English, or perhaps Received Pronunciation, is clearly the path for the English speaking world to follow.


♥, bc.

 
No, pedophile is just wrong (none / 0) (#3)
by Anonymous Reader on Sat Jul 21st, 2001 at 06:08:47 PM PST
Seeing as it refers to feet, not children. "Standard" US english it may be, but it is poor latin.


Heh (5.00 / 1) (#5)
by Anonymous Reader on Sat Jul 21st, 2001 at 06:18:15 PM PST
I must remember to tell shoeboy he's a pedophile then :-)


I think you mean podophile (5.00 / 1) (#15)
by Peter Johnson on Sun Jul 22nd, 2001 at 08:50:43 AM PST
Podo means foot.
Pedo means child.
Please get your facts straight before discussing my sexual preferences, thanks.

--Shoeboy
--Peter
Are you adequate?

Wrong (none / 0) (#17)
by Anonymous Reader on Sun Jul 22nd, 2001 at 06:50:36 PM PST
Pedis means foot. So pedo means foot, I think. Paedo isn't even pronounced the same (ie. paediatrician -- <i>pee</i>diatrician)
But I know shit all about latin, and couldn't conjugate to save my life.
It was a dumb joke anyway.


 
Hmmm indeed. (5.00 / 1) (#13)
by darkside on Sun Jul 22nd, 2001 at 02:20:26 AM PST
As someone else has already pointed out, I have used British English (I am British) spelling throughout my article, with words such as "paedophile" and "faeces" and by using "-ise" in preference to "-ize" in words like "institutionalised".

As for the clowns/sociopaths angle, I think I could do something with that. Would you accuse me of plagiarism if I was to write an article about it?


Clowns vs Sociopaths! Yay! (5.00 / 1) (#14)
by Harvey Black on Sun Jul 22nd, 2001 at 08:08:44 AM PST
I do believe I would like to see that, yes. Heheh.


 
Copyright Infringement (5.00 / 3) (#4)
by sventhatcher on Sat Jul 21st, 2001 at 06:17:39 PM PST
Imagine my shock when I oepned up the latest adequacy.org article and found text that had all but been STOLEN from the body of my very comments!

I was naturally shocked to see the wonderful editors here using such dubious judgement and allowing blatant plagarism of my ideas.

I request, no, demand (!) that a footnote or paranthetical citation be insert inside the article by the editors to rectify this gross injustice.

--Sven (now with bonus weblog vanity site! (MLP sold seperately))

I didn't see any similarities (4.00 / 2) (#6)
by Anonymous Reader on Sat Jul 21st, 2001 at 06:20:44 PM PST
It was just an argument about the same topic, started by some anonymous person. No plagiarism here.


Rubber Whales in my Pants (4.50 / 4) (#7)
by sventhatcher on Sat Jul 21st, 2001 at 06:26:15 PM PST
I find this comment to be personally offensive.

It's making light of an incident which has caused me a great deal of mental anguish and even caused a serious gap in trust between myself and the editorial staff of adequacy.org. I'm confident that it's nothing but a troll, and I'm sure the editors will remove it quickly since they don't tolerate that crap around here like some other websites!

Anyone can see that the anonymous poster in my thread and the poster of this article are one and the same, and the idea that the majority of teachers go into teaching due to being unable to do anything else was clearly originally my idea, yet the author made no attempt to point out that he/she had gotten this concept directly from my words!

It's well know that plagarism of ideas is just as wrong as the direct copying of words. Please try to consider the emotions of others who are more sensitive about the thing they write than perhaps you are.

--Sven (now with bonus weblog vanity site! (MLP sold seperately))

Cliches aren't IP (5.00 / 1) (#8)
by Anonymous Reader on Sat Jul 21st, 2001 at 06:35:26 PM PST
So you are saying the author plagiarised a common cliche (Those who can, do; Those who can't, teach)?


Let's Get It On (5.00 / 2) (#9)
by sventhatcher on Sat Jul 21st, 2001 at 06:46:04 PM PST
Ooh baby!

You it drives me wild when you speak in psudeo-legal terminology.

Tell me more about those IPs..

--Sven (now with bonus weblog vanity site! (MLP sold seperately))

Oh, please (5.00 / 1) (#10)
by Platypus on Sat Jul 21st, 2001 at 10:22:35 PM PST
Where are those editors who claim not to tolerate trolling? I've never seen trolling so obvious, or so artless, as Sven's.


Hmm (5.00 / 2) (#11)
by sventhatcher on Sun Jul 22nd, 2001 at 12:52:13 AM PST
That last one was a bit empty wasn't it? =)

It's not really trolling, since it's completely irrelevent to me if I get a response or not.

Let's call it.. storytelling!

--Sven (now with bonus weblog vanity site! (MLP sold seperately))

 
'plagiarising' a cliche (none / 0) (#21)
by Nobody on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 12:01:10 PM PST
"the idea that the majority of teachers go into teaching due to being unable to do anything else was clearly originally my idea"

Sorry guys, but that isn't exactly an original concept!
The way it was phrased raised a smile though :-)


 
Author's Reply (5.00 / 1) (#12)
by darkside on Sun Jul 22nd, 2001 at 02:02:15 AM PST
In the thread that you are referring to, I was the "Anonymous Reader" who you were discussing the problem of paedophilia in schools with. That discussion was my inspiration to get an account on Adequacy.org and to write that article, for which I thank you.

I did not want to cite your comments without your permission, since I feared that I would be accused of misrepresenting your viewpoints. As it happens, you complain for not being cited. This is a case of "damned if you do, damned if you don't."

I have persuaded one of the Adequacy editors to edit the story and to hyperlink to the relevant postings of yours, and you have my sincere apologies.


 
Ask and ye shall receive (5.00 / 2) (#16)
by Anonymous Reader on Sun Jul 22nd, 2001 at 09:16:11 AM PST
Whenever something bad happens, some wag always says "Won't someone please think of the children?" As it turns out many teachers are all to happy to help out in return for some pre teen nookie.


 
I'm confused (5.00 / 1) (#18)
by Anonymous Reader on Mon Jul 23rd, 2001 at 10:24:08 AM PST
While this is an otherwise informative (not to say shocking!) article, there is one issue which I feel is not adequately (no pun intended) addressed.

While the overlap of "Teachers" and "Paedophiles" is labled "Danger" (and rightly so), it seems that the other does not consider paedophiles in other occupations to be dangers? I would think that librarians, priests, coaches, and other adults who regularly "work" with children should put those selfsame children at risk? Perhaps this is a matter for a future article? (or series?)


I think it has been simplified for clarity. (5.00 / 1) (#19)
by Anonymous Reader on Mon Jul 23rd, 2001 at 11:35:37 AM PST
Obviously the graph could be made more complicated, but the author has a serious point to make, and the average attention span of an Amrerican is just 2 minutes and 13 seconds. So as you can see, there is a need for simplicity.

However, we at adequacy will never oversimplify complex issues. You can sleep safely knowing that.


 
flawed logic (5.00 / 1) (#20)
by Anonymous Reader on Mon Jul 23rd, 2001 at 08:14:59 PM PST
Children simply do not have a sufficient level of emotional or intellectual development to be engaging company for an adult of average intelligence. Therefore, anyone who chooses to work in schools must obviously have unhealthy carnal desires for children.

I'm sorry, but that simply doesn't follow. Given that you presume an adult of average intelligence, it could simply be the case that the adults in question are not of average intelligence. Thus, there are two possibilities:
  • They are of lower than average intelligence. In which case I'd refer you to your own maxim, "those who can, do, those who don't, teach".
  • They are of above average intelligence. In which case we certainly have much reason to be concerned-- our children are being abused by people more intelligent than us! How will we ever catch them?



 
Excuse me? (rebuttal) (none / 0) (#22)
by Laughing Canuck on Wed Dec 5th, 2001 at 05:37:27 PM PST
"The majority of teachers are well-adjusted citizens who simply don't have the qualifications or ability to succeed in proper careers. "

EXCUSE ME?! I resent the implication that teaching is not a proper profession. Teaching is an extremely difficult profession: it takes a highly qualified individual to be able to teach a topic to people who know nothing about it. The difference between a teacher and a professor is a perfect example--while most University Profs are fluent in their discipline, 70+% of them have no concept of how to relate their knowledge to people who aren't as deeply involved in the discipline.

Furthermore, as the child of a teacher, I am singularly pissed off with the implication that this is an endemic issue. Show me the figures. We're talking about a fraction of a fraction of a percent here. There's no denying that it would be an attractive role for a pedophile, but there are many, many others that offer less scrutiny.

"In many cases, the old adage "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" is true."

You're avoiding the fact that many disciplines can't survive without the Academy. Such as all of them. There's simply not enough room in the "real job market", as you imply, for all the academics in the world. It's also getting progressively harder for some diciplines to earn a living outside of a teaching environment.

"It is clearly not natural for people to wish to spend time in the company of the children of others. While it is perfectly normal to be around one's own offspring, the motives of anyone who wishes to work with children are questionable."

I fail to see how this is in any way "clear." And FYI, I happen to enjoy the company of children, something which by your definition makes me a suspected pedophile: an accusation which, although patently false, would permanently destroy my life. Children, as exhausting as their boundless energy can be, have an innocence that is refreshing to someone as cynical and jaded as myself.

"Children simply do not have a sufficient level of emotional or intellectual development to be engaging company for an adult of average intelligence."

You grossly underestimate the intelligence and reasoning ability of the average child. Although they don't deal as well in abstracts as adults do, children have minds, and many of them use them better than their parents do. Exactly what age group are you talking about, anyway?

"Therefore, anyone who chooses to work in schools must obviously have unhealthy carnal desires for children."

Say what?

"Since there is no evolutionary imperative to nurture the children of others, anyone who claims to have these instincts is almost certainly a liar and a repressed child abuser."

How about: Increasing the number of care-givers in relation to the number of offspring increases the chance of survival for those offspring. It also leaves the family/clan group with fewer dependents. This is similar to the organisation of a wolf pack, IIRC.

"To protect children from this menace, it is necessary for governments to recognise that there is an epidemic of paedophiles in our schools and to legislate accordingly."

Yet again I ask: "Evidence?"

"Annual psychological evaluation of teachers, to check for any paedophilic tendencies may be a possible solution to the problem."

Why single out teachers? Why not firefighters, police officers, politicians, bankers, pediatric nurses, x-ray technicians or mothers? All of these people come into contact with children. All of them are in positions of trust. Although you have the best of intentions, the line of logic you are using is the same one that led to the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII and racial profiling. It's the same logic that earmarks all Muslims as potential terrorists because they're Muslim.

Your diagram, although it serves its purpose, is largely irrelevant. A bomb strapped to any other thing is equally as dangerous.

"Additionally, a telephone hotline that teachers may use to anonymously report colleagues who they suspect of abusing pupils may also help to protect our children."

Far too much potential for abuse. Far too much.

"However, the concerns of teachers are unimportant in comparison to preserving the innocence of our children. Frankly, any teachers who would oppose these measures must surely be trying to hide their own unnatural desire for children."

I'm quite sure most teachers are more concerned over this issue than you are. And your implication that denial equates guilt didn't work for Freud any more than it does here.


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YOU IDIOT (none / 0) (#23)
by Anonymous Reader on Wed May 1st, 2002 at 12:53:51 AM PST
The thing that makes me that maddest about this is how you dare to say the teachers are people who simply cannot make it in any other career, or those who can do, thoe who cannot teach?

Where the fuck did you get your information from. I don't know what planet you live on but on earth and in Canada and most countries, you have to got univeristy for at least 5 years in order to become a teacher. HELLO, JUST WHERE THE FUCK WOULD yOU BE WITHOUT A TEACHER??? Sitting at home, erm.. not at home because you wouldn't have a job! How dare you insult those that give us the education we need in order to survive and thrive in this world.... UGH, it just makes me disgusted to think about how stupid you must be to think that teachers are not important and integral parts of society! you dare to insult them????MAYBE YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT WHERE YOU'D BE WITHOUT SCHOOL???????


 

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