Sunday, October 31, 1999By Jane Elizabeth Zemel, Post-Gazette Education Writer Emily SleeEmily Slee was a quiet, serious Unionville (Chester County, Pa.) High School senior, intent on a career in sports medicine.That's why she volunteered for the job as head trainer for the boys' basketball team.That's how she lost control of her life. It began one day in 1994 when Roger Heller, the boys' basketball coach and "everybody's favorite" social studies teacher, was talking with Emily alone after class. Emily chatted, gesturing with her hands in the air.The conversation stopped when Heller suddenly took her finger in his mouth. "Why did you do that?" she asked, pulling her hand away. "I don't know," said Heller.That began Heller's pursuit of Emily. She said he made suggestive comments, touched her breasts and buttocks, pushed his groin against her. Emily, who'd never had a boyfriend, was intimidated and confused. She didn't tell anyone. "I wanted to believe that this was not happening; it was a misstep on his part. I disassociated completely."One afternoon, Slee said, Heller attacked her when they were alone in the school's locker room.Under the pretense of showing her a magazine, "he reached over me from behind. He inserted his finger into my vagina, through my leggings."The 6-foot-1 teacher then held the 5-foot-2 student between his knees. She escaped, ran from the building, and managed to avoid him for several months until her graduation. But after a bout of depression in college, Emily Slee finally reported the teacher to the police.In a plea bargain last year, Heller, now 51, was found guilty of corruption of a minor, was sentenced to four years of probation, and fined $1,000. His teaching certificate was revoked in March.In sworn statements, at least a half-dozen school employees said they had suspected inappropriate behavior by Heller, and had reported their suspicions to top school officials. Still, Heller, who had been a teacher for more than 20 years and led the basketball team to several league championships, was allowed to continue teaching.Slee, now 22, has filed a civil lawsuit against the school district "in the name of every student" to prevent further abuse. "It could be happening to someone else, right now." Robin BehlingThe teacher who abused Robin Behling when she was 12 years old was, she said, was "a classic pedophile."She knows that now, because she works in county child protective services in New York. In 1974, she confided in her social studies teacher about trouble she was having at home. "He looked for someone weak. He worked for a whole year to gain my trust. He assured me, we'll take care of it. He groomed me...he earned my trust." While his wife was out of town, he invited Robin to his apartment and gave her beer and cigarettes. Soon, the relationship became sexual.It ended one night when he tried to teach her to perform oral sex on him. "I couldn't do it; I threw up," said Behling. He became so angry that she was afraid of him and their liaisons ended. But she is certain that he pursued other young students, including a friend of hers.Many years later, Behling heard a rumor that the teacher was going to get a job at her own children's school. She was terrified. Around the same time, she read a newspaper article about a young man who had successfully lobbied to get his former abuser's teaching license revoked.Behling went to the New York Department of Education with her friend, who also said the teacher had abused her. Their stories persuaded state officials to revoke the teacher's license in 1994. But no criminal charges were filed because the statute of limitations had expired.Behling said she doesn't mind discussing her experience. "I can talk about it because I'm in a much better place in my life," she said. "Victims can't or won't speak for themselves."But she doesn't like to think of herself as a victim. "I'm a productive member of society, I'm a good parent," said Behling, "but it will always affect me." Back to first article. 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According to Plutarch, Theban pederasty was instituted as an educational device for boys in order to "soften, while they were young, their natural fierceness", and to "temper the manners and characters of the youth".[109] According to tradition, the Sacred Band of Thebes comprised pederastic couples.[110]
Teaching sex boys education naughty.
Another inequality issue within the British education system is the difference in levels of men and women who are employed as teaching and support staff. Just 15% of primary school teachers are male, meaning that many children are lacking a positive male role model within their educational framework. Some schools do not have any male staff members at all. This can be particular problematic for children with learning difficulties that mean that they respond better with men.
Research also suggests that male teachers are more likely to be employed in high ranking roles within a school, such as Head of Department or Head Teacher. Studies have shown that many women in education see their role as vocational and prefer teaching to administrative or managerial roles, even though the pay grade is lower. One of the major challenges for the education system is making Head Teacher roles more appealing to female applicants.
The comment Ruth made is indicative of a biased teacher, someone who is indoctrinated (knowingly or unknowingly) into the positive discrimination culture against boys. I would be concerned if she was teaching my Sons with such an attitude towards a problem that is now being taken very serious at the highest levels of government.
Darren, at least you feel once like women for last hundreds of years. So from my perspective a few years with girls on the main cover is like a drop in an ocean.In my view, we need to all strive to create a society where there is a place for everyone to be themselves, stop feeding children with things like boys are curious and girls are naughty. Despite the window dressing on the school websites as a mother (of a boy and a girl) I still feel the curriculum for a meaningful gender balanced approach is not there.
Just last spring, Shea revoked the license of Francis Lambert, a Hudson physical education teacher who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Lambert's 30-year teaching career ended abruptly when school officials found he had tried to access 1,000 porn sites from his school computer, downloaded kiddie porn at home, and sent inappropriate e-mails to a 12-year-old girl.
Beyond teaching boys about male anatomy and girls about female anatomy, reformers and educators often conveyed different messages and used different materials, depending on the race of their students. Erratic desegregation efforts during the Civil Rights movement renewed a crisis in sex education programs. Parents and administrators considered sexuality education even more dangerous in the context of a racially integrated classroom. The backlash against sex education in the schools kept pace with the backlash against integration, with each often used to bolster the other. Opponents of integration and sex education, for example, often used racial language to scare parents about what kids were learning, and with whom.
Racial segregation for sex education was even more pronounced within schools. Jim Crow dominated the American South, but the North and West practiced racial segregation in less formal ways. So classroom lessons on sexuality were likely to be inflected by assumptions about racial and gender differences, assuming that white girls maintained sexual purity, white boys were aggressive, and nonwhite children were perceived as dangerously promiscuous.16 Within schools, outside professionals delivered lectures to form the backbone of sex education, although integrated sex education programs entered multiple disciplines such as biology and physical education. Often these lessons segregated students on the basis of sex, with girls in one class and boys in another. Boys and girls had little direct communication with one another regarding sex, nor did they learn about communication between the genders.
While the idea of tackling this head on and talking to boys in schools sounds good in practice, from my experience as an educational sexual health worker in central Manchester it is difficult to discuss sensitive issues such as menstruation with boys and young men.
To overcome these issues, male teachers and employees in the schools and institutes should be well educated and confident regarding menstruation and menstrual hygiene management so that they support girls/women by providing safe environment and privacy. A committee of teachers including both male and females should be made in the schools to collect funds for providing sanitary napkins, soaps, water, and toilet facilities in schools so that girls manage their menstruation with ease and safety. Committee should also provide dustbins for menstrual waste disposal. Separate toilets for girls and boys with proper doors and locks should be built in the schools. Teachers should educate girls about menstrual health management and its link to their health. They should also make girl students aware of how to dispose of used menstrual products at home and in schools and about the consequences of throwing them in open or flushing them in toilets. Open discussions on puberty, sex education, menstruation, and so forth should be organized by schools in every class to make students aware. This will solve their unsolved queries by providing them correct knowledge, promote social interaction, and also develop a trust relationship with fellow friends and teachers. School-level health policies should be made by school management committee to promote and educate students regarding health and safety, to ensure adequate water and sanitation facilities, and to protect girl students and staff from bullying and sexual harassment. 2ff7e9595c
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