Teachers Sexually Interact with Children

Holy, It Happened (Summary of the Event)

A teacher from Don Mills Middle School in Toronto was arrested and charged for two counts of sexual assault and two counts of sexual interference. A 12 year old boy confided in another staff and then the principal was then alerted on May 12th, 2010. A substitute teacher has taken over his classes in the mean time. Stewart Adams a teacher at Kingsview Village Junior School was arrested within two days of the first arrest. The news of Hang’s activities may have been the key factor in the arrest of Adams as more students are becoming less shy to come forward and telling their story. At the moment both teachers will continue to receive regular pay until these investigations come to an end.

Cause-Effect Predictions (Positive Economic Statement)

If the arrests of these two teachers spark the arrests of more deviant teachers to come then a lot of money will be wasted and coming out of federal funding, these leakages in money will result from adding the income for substitute teachers, and the money spent on the investigations to prosecute these deviant teachers. If these teachers are convicted of sexual assault then chaos stemming from parents and others against child abuse will arise, as civil unrest will no doubt in sue and the peel board’s ability to select and hire employees will be scrutinized. If the amount of teachers assaulting their children accumulates then not only will the funding that goes into education be affected but the money that is spent on corrective facilities and prisons will increase substantially to account for increased criminals.

My Amazing Opinion (What Should Happen)

The government and public school boards should maintain policies restricting the access of teachers to students only during school hours. These implemented policies would then reduce the ability for teachers to take advantage of students out of school hours and during school hours there should be surveillance that would not only prove a teacher’s guilt to crime but will also help deter crime. Children should also be made more aware of situations that occur. Often times, crimes and the violation of laws could be stopped a lot sooner than they are actually stopped, if the violator was apprehended earlier on. Awareness is an effective deterrence against the crimes teachers commit as students will realize the situation and go to help immediately, rather than being shy and doing nothing which kids often find themselves doing because they simply do not know what to do. In hindsight, the screening of teachers, implementing stricter policies and adding surveillance is a luxury that the public school system cannot afford at this moment in time, simply because there is not enough money circulating around, thus, raising awareness is the best course of action to take. It is clear that deviant behaviour is obvious to suspect and it is assumed that everyone knows what is right and what is wrong and when to go to someone for help, but quite simply many people do not know what is wrong and they do not go for help. This case is especially true for young ones as they are very innocent and vulnerable to manipulation.

White, Madeleine. "Toronto Teacher Faces Sexual Assault Charges ." Toronto Star 03 June 2010: A2. Print.

Helping Foster Kids!

What in the world? (Summary of the Event)

In Ontario, children in foster care are in a complete and utter disadvantage in terms of education. Parents with children living at home often use their child benefits and opening up a Registered Education Savings Plan. The parental investments trigger $2000 in federal learning bonds and the federal government actually matches the contributions put forth by parents to a maximum of $7200. I t would cost the government 8 million dollars a year just to set up a comparable social benefits program that targets those children in foster care in Ontario alone. By law, those in foster care must leave by the age of 18. In all likelihood, they usually drop out of school before post secondary education because they must provide food and shelter by working before they can focus on their own education. Many aspiring workers remain living at home till their mid 20’s today, which adds to their advantage further.

Cause-Effect Predictions (Positive Economic Statement)

If the federal government provided a better education benefits program for foster children then fewer children within child care would drop out of high school, as it stands fewer than 44 percent of foster children complete high school by the age of 21. If the federal government decided to help education in Ontario then not only will they be using 8 million dollars out of the budget but they would also have to compensate the other provinces as well. The whole process will be too costly to maintain and sustain for a long period of time. If lobbying is successful and financial assistance is given to those in foster care then taxes may increase for the average Canadian citizen, in hopes for equal opportunity for all Canadians.

My Amazing Opinion (What Should Happen)

The government should start the segregation of education paths at a young age, so that people will learn to specialize into a designated field at a younger age. Thus, there is a higher chance of attracting foster children to pursue their designated careers before they are forced to leave foster care. The federal government should remove the fact that they will match the contributions made by parents and use that money to create a fund that grants assistance to those based on financial security and puts priority to those who need it the most. The segregation of education should be implemented into Canada as people will be equipped to enter the labour force at a younger age and they leave school with the skills and knowledge needed to start their lives. This approach allows for people who do not require as much schooling to go straight into the workforce and thus sufficiently reducing the use of taxpayers’ money on individuals that do not need it as their jobs do not require further education. This approach is much more favourable than sustaining the Registered Education Savings Plan, because the plan not only assists parents that are already able to make consistent contributions their education fund, but the federal government also matches the contributions of those parents and thus helping these parents even further.


Monsebraaten, Laurie. "Foster Kids Shut Out of Education Benefits." Toronto Star 17 May 2010: A1 and A12. Print.