[ipaddr]

I'm making the point the public system has a worse record on the subject. And any child is safer at school compared to your home.

It is shocking when a priest who takes vows then breaks them and commits such acts. It is less shocking to find out a teacher is going out with a student or texting naked photos. The first is forbidden and taboo and brings great shame by society. The second is at times encouraged by popular culture when the genders are reversed (female teacher / male student) but is a crime.

Your kid is more likely to have this happen outside of the Catholic system. Your feelings about the church overshadows reality be reenforces how much of a taboo a priest having any form of sexual pleasure is.

[salad-fan]

> I'm making the point the public system has a worse record on the subject.

Source?

> The second [teacher / student relationships] is at times encouraged by popular culture when the genders are reversed (female teacher / male student)

Do you have any evidence of this? I have never ever heard anyone seriously encouraging relationships between adults and minors, or between someone in a position of authority with someone they have authority over.

But then I only started school in the 1970s, so perhaps these things were acceptable in an earlier era or in a country that I’m unfamiliar with. Regardless, today such things are absolutely unacceptable, and as someone who currently works in high school sports I can state from first hand experience just how seriously such matters are taken.

> Your feelings about the church overshadows reality be reenforces how much of a taboo a priest having any form of sexual pleasure is.

I have no “feelings” about the Catholic Church, beyond what the evidence has shown them to be. And their systematic child abuse, in many countries and for many MANY years, is a matter of public record.

[fjord788]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6026962/

> It should be noted that while childhood sexual abuse by Catholic clergy has received extensive media coverage, childhood sexual abuse by teachers and others is also a serious problem. Charol Shakeshaft, who has done extensive research on the problem of sexual abuse of students by teachers, recognizes the difficulty of collecting solid data on sexual abuse; but using available studies, she estimates that “the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than one hundred times the abuse by priests.” According to Shakeshaft's research, even when abuse was reported to school officials the offenders were not reported to the police. In her study of 225 cases in New York, “none of the abusers were reported to authorities and only 1 percent lost their license to teach.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21392345

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/sexual-abuse-by-educators-...

https://childrenstreatmentcenter.com/sexual-abuse-teachers/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/17/child-sexual...

[salad-fan]

That proves nothing - Catholic schools are still schools, after all. The point is that the Catholic Church has a systemic child abuse problem that includes, but extends beyond, its schools.