The last complete dataset on the subject showed nearly 15,000 cases of rape or sexual assault in K-12 public schools that happened on school grounds during the 2017-2018 school year. That's almost 7,000 more K-12 students being sexually assaulted on school grounds than the total number of handgun murders in the country.
This is no small problem and it's also not a problem isolated entirely to Loudoun county. Yet, I'm willing to bet that very few to none of you had heard of this.
Is it because we don't care? Is it because the media doesn't care? Is it because the schools are trying to cover it up? Is it because there's huge political interest in making our public schools look like they aren't complete dumpster fires. Think it's a healthy combination of all of those factors.
We know that Loudon county tried to cover it up. We know that a student raped a girl in one of the school bathrooms, it wasn't reported to anybody, the student was transferred to another school where he raped another girl. Not only did they lie about it, they had the father of one of the victims arrested when he brought it up at a school board meeting. Nobody has been fired or otherwise disciplined. Since that story broke several other cases within that district have emerged. A lot of union members knew damn well what was happening and they still have their jobs.
15,000 kids in one year. That dwarfs the Catholic scandals and nobody is talking about it. Nobody is getting fired. Definitely nobody is going to prison over it.
Yes, I do think that it's a political reason. It's easy for people who support unions to defend them for keeping incompetent employees on the job. The moment you seriously have to talk about unions defending and sometimes engaging in child rape is the moment when people have to acknowledge that unions have too much power.