NY Teachers Union Protecting Sexual Predators

-By Warner Todd Huston

One of the more absurd aspects of the New York school system is that the teachers union is basically given the right to investigate itself when teachers are accused of sexual misconduct. Sadly, in too many cases the union sides with the criminal teachers instead of their victims.

In the Wall Street Journal, Campbell Brown laments this cozy relationship that unions have with their predator members citing several examples of the failure to punish criminal behavior in New York schools.

"If this kind of behavior were happening in any adult workplace in America, there would be zero tolerance. Yet our public school children are defenseless," he writes.

This lack of punishment occurs, Brown says, because of how the law is written.


Still don't see the problem? Brown goes on.


So, these "arbiters" are beholden to the teachers and their union, the very people accused of predation yet are still expected to pass unbiased judgment?

Brown goes on to point out that even when the arbiters do punish sexual predator teachers the sentence is often more like a slap on the wrist after which the teacher is right back in the system to perpetrate more acts of predation.

It makes one wonder just who is representing the interests of these kids who’ve had their innocence stolen by sexual predator teachers?

Brown goes on to say that this horrid situation is thankfully not going unnoticed.


But guess who is allowed to have a major say in whether or not the reform gets passed? You guessed it, the union.

Brown hopes the union will suddenly see the light and realize that its practice of allowing sexual predators to keep indulging their crimes at will is not a very good one. But, one would be excused for doubting that the unions will ever do the right thing since for decades they've been guilty of facilitating this sexual misconduct in the first place.

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