Efforts to Curb Educator Sex Abuse Seen as Weak
William Berard leads a seminar about sexual predators and harassment for administrators at Chancellor Livingston Elementary School in Rhinebeck, N.Y. on July 30. The seminar was part of a court-ordered, year-long training project for faculty, teachers and students in the Rhinebeck school system.
—Tim Roske/AP
Associated Press
Every school has rules governing teacher behavior. Every state has laws against child abuse, and many specifically outlaw teachers’ taking sexual liberties with students. Every district has administrators who watch out for sexual misconduct by teachers.
Yet people like Chad Maughan stay in the classroom.
Mr. Maughan got in trouble twice for viewing pornography at schools in Washington state but was allowed to keep teaching. Within two years, he was convicted of raping a 14-year-old...
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