{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cybertraps Podcast","title":"Preventing Educator Abuse of Children with Dr. Charol Shakeshaft Cybertraps 127","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2579,"description":"Show notes\n Dr. Charol Shakeshaft is a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University who studies educator sex abuse towards students prevalence and prevention.\nSubscribe to the Cybertraps Newsletter\n How much abuse of kids is happening and has it gotten better?\nWhy has there been so much scandal around the catholic church and so little around\nThe power of grooming students, colleagues, parents, etc.\nUninterrupted and unobserved time with students.\nMuch still occurs in the school fact to face.\nWe don’t know how much this is happening, nor do we know whether it is increasing or decreasing.\nUAWW data surprisingly showed that students had been touched inappropriately by adults, when the study was looking for peer interactions.\n10% of kids\nPeople don’t want to fund research in this area.\nWhy the discrepancy between the catholic church and schools doing this.\nPredominant genders involved\nDistricts are very closed when these things happen and don’t allow much to be said.\nOrganizational decisions that get made about\nStructural issue rather than an individual issue.\nChallenges of a school system: not judging a colleague, closed rooms, nobody\nDid you see the signs? Why didn’t you say anything?\nThe culture is such that they don’t feel safe saying something.\nSESAME Organization\n133 superintendents - Too much passing the trash. We took care of the problem so “our” kids would be safe.\nBy not saying anything, we are giving people permission to expand a predicliction\nSchools don’t just allow this to happen, schools help people find this in themselves.\n“It must be OK” if adults aren’t calling it out.\nPay attention to how a student reports. Kids don’t say it straight up.\nThink of addictions, and what sets people up for doing that addiction.\nStart out being lonely and then it leads to another thing.\nPrevention - look at the organization - Policies (do they follow them?), training (not just mandatory reporting), hiring practices (not calling references),\nPresidium training","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-npbjlTwEpH5Ybi_ySNRhS-EfNqaI7Ep1svTppTGhLE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNTcyLzE2ODM5/MjY0NDktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}