What is up with these educated people; why do we think they are right? We see politicians, Hollywood elites and others who really struggle? One of the nation's top biodefense researchers has apparently taken his own life, just as the FBI zeroed in on him as a suspect in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. _____________________________________________________________ Students at Warren's McKinley Elementary School didn't think much of the black gym bag their teacher carried -- until federal agents discovered its mesh pocket concealed a video camera. The kids who had trusted Aaron Brevik, 33, soon learned he secretly filmed boys in locker rooms, showers and the bathroom. One horrified parent identified her son by his boxers. ______________________________________________________________ Where did we get the idea that educated people are indeed smart? Come on Freud, Johnson, Leary, just how smart were they? Addicts! _______________________________________________________________ It was a bizarre and emotional courtroom scene, but one occurring with disturbing frequency these days. A popular middle school teacher, 43-year-old Pamela Diehl- Moore, had tearfully pleaded guilty to having sex with a child - a 13-year-old male student who had just completed 7th grade - and now stood before a Hackensack, N.J., judge awaiting sentencing. ________________________________________________________________________ Children are often taught in school to look out for adults who might hurt them. But sometimes, the grown-ups in their own classrooms are the ones who could do the most harm. Sexual misconduct by educators is a volatile, sensitive subject that's been whispered about in school hallways and behind closed office doors as long as there have been schools. But a lack of public acknowledgment has helped the problem to spread and the bad teachers to circulate. We see as more children are abused, more and more college students have STDS yet we suggest that being educated means being smart? Just how smart are all these people anyway? Not too................... |