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.