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formerly RGG

How safe are our children & grand children in public schools ? At least 135 teachers and teachers’ aides have been arrested so far this year on child sex-related crimes in the U.S., ranging from child pornography to raping students.
An analysis looked at local news stories week by week featuring arrests of teachers and teachers’ aides on child sex-related crimes in school districts across the country. Arrests that weren't publicized were not counted in the analysis, meaning the true number may well be higher.

5/21/2022 6:58:58 AM

Grittyville, WA

But I think its statistically very low. Theres a lot of schools and a lot of students.

5/21/2022 11:59:24 PM

Grittyville, WA

Its not my biggest worry but I do believe if you dont teach your kids to be smart and healthy then eventually someone will take advantage of them. In various ways.

5/22/2022 12:06:59 AM

formerly RGG

Gridiot, you are absolutely correct. And I doubt if 10% of these sexual molestations actually gets reported to authorities.

5/22/2022 2:48:11 AM

formerly RGG

Gridiot, don't get me started talking about health. We have come to the point life expectancy in the USA is declining. Why you may ask ? Follow the money. Big business controls Congress in a big way through their massive "donations". I would call them bribes. Unhealthy crops are grown by big agricultural corporations & manufactured into unhealthy processed foods & then sold to consumers as being healthy. The standard American diet (sad) is in fact very unhealthy. Metabolic diseases have been skyrocketing and the doctors choose to treat them as chronic when in reality they are highly curable. All it takes is a switch to fresh whole foods, more exercise & get outside for some fresh air & sunshine. Follow the money. These poor doctors have been taught to treat most everything with medicine & keep diseases chronic so they can leech off people for as long as they live. And most doctors seem to know no better than that. So maybe it isn't entirely their fault. But I have a big bone to pick with the American Medical Association & with government bureaucrats who get rich accepting money to ignore this very obvious problem. America very much needs the representative democracy we deserve & seem to no longer have. America is owned in more than one way by mega corporations with deep pockets. Greed got the better of democracy.

5/22/2022 3:09:10 AM

Syracuse, NY

Hey RGG if you're bored, go somewhere else. eg

5/22/2022 3:51:33 AM

Grittyville, WA

There's hundreds of examples in every facet of our sad diet, but just one personal recent letdown: yogurt for example, they put carrageenan, pectin, cornstarch, etc in it now. So what you are buying aka the average product at the average store, its a product that is mostly fake. Yes, its a society of heartless greed. If thats too cynical, oh well. No one should be so uncaring.

5/22/2022 5:00:44 AM

formerly RGG

pumpkinpal2, you area rude SOB aren't you ?

5/22/2022 5:44:46 AM

formerly RGG

pumpkinpal2, Naw, I think I'll stick around for a while. I have been on here for many years and have always enjoyed it. You also are welcome to leave my brother.

5/22/2022 6:38:01 AM

formerly RGG

pumpkinpal2, You are the only boring thing I have found on here. Maybe I will get lucky & you will go away.

5/22/2022 6:48:16 AM

formerly RGG

Gridiot, it seems almost impossible for me to find a high quality unsweetened yogurt here in metro Manila. Folks over here really love their added sugar. It is sad when I think about it. These folks were seldom overweight before the arrival of the western diet. Now days obviously unhealthy folks are everywhere.

5/22/2022 7:59:05 AM

Grittyville, WA

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

"There's a double meaning in that."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4JO7Pzr3K8

(Much Ado About Nothing.)

5/22/2022 11:11:38 AM

Grittyville, WA

I believe our diets are short on phosphorous which stunts our metabolism just like it stunts a plants metabolism. In other words, its not the sugar, really its the inability to metabolize the sugar...

5/22/2022 11:15:05 AM

Syracuse, NY

'...child pornography to raping students'
'...charged with child sex crimes'
You must not be bothered TOO much by it to just start a discussion about it. Seems to be just a re-broadcast of the news that I don't watch (I wonder why) on here, whereby i 'accidentally' clicked on 'Other Non-Pumpkin Related' to see what Gritty had brought up since there was NOTHING at the last minute on the rest of the 'site.

What I did NOT do which I SHOULD HAVE done at the time I commented was point out WHAT (again, WHAT) I was OFFENDED BY, yeah, OFFENDED that anyone on this 'site would bring up such a topic as that, whether against it (yay) or for it (OMG, what?) and I request that you not bring it up again just to show that you think it's okay to bring up ANYthing you want, you don't care who's offended by ANYthing you wanna talk about, etc.;

There are unseen limits and I'm pointing out one of them.

IDC, and you were probably in the same mood I was in when you posted 3 times in a row above and for me, a long day ensued today or I would have posted this attempt at smoothing-over sooner. It is what it is, and that is a 'Hey, would ya mind not talking about THAT shi*, please??? and why would anyone? - Your grandchildren might be listening, and I am sure that I won't be. I am not going anywhere and as I said, my comment, yes, rude without an exact reason for it, was specific to this post, here and now, and to no other. I hope that all makes sense. eg

5/22/2022 5:07:32 PM

Syracuse, NY

great-grandchildren, lol---

5/22/2022 5:10:36 PM

formerly RGG

pumpkinpal2, I will always continue to discuss anything I want to on here. This section of this site was created for just that. You want me to self censure ? That right there tells me you are a flaming liberal. Good luck to you.

5/22/2022 7:34:15 PM

formerly RGG

pumpkinpal2, Why the "lol" when referring to my 2 wonderful & beautiful great granddaughters please ?

5/22/2022 7:35:52 PM

formerly RGG

pumpkinpal2,Their names are Ophelia & Adeline and are being raised by my wonderful granddaughter, Jazzmine, in Knoxville, Tennessee . Her mom, my daughter Pamela recently died at only 39 years old. It broke my heart.

5/22/2022 7:43:43 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

OK, I see the pattern here…who’s the name calling finger pointer?

EG, I get your point….

Edit, Block, Retired Great Grandfather



Problem solved

5/22/2022 7:45:43 PM

formerly RGG

North, I see you want to control the flow of information unless it is something you agree with. SNAFU for lefties.

5/22/2022 8:05:43 PM

formerly RGG

North, I hope you do block me as you seem to bring nothing of value to my reading. You seem to be a dark force.

5/22/2022 9:02:38 PM

formerly RGG

NSB, I call a grower a grower & I call a liberal a liberal. You sir are a growing liberal and I am a growing conservative If you don't like the truth then please block me. I have little to no use for folks who don't have a open mind.

5/22/2022 9:06:02 PM

NILES , CALIF

Hey Pumpkin 2
Its up to Ken the coordinator to decide what is ok to write on this site NOT YOU so far Ken has not said anything about the subject

5/22/2022 9:44:00 PM

formerly RGG

OLD-ROOKIE, I know right. It just seems some of the other fellows on here very much think I have only the right to talk about things they agree with. I do appreciate your help though. I have been here on this site since 2008 & known as Tennessee Dreamer until a few unkind folks began saying derogatory things about me because my political beliefs do not align with theirs. So I decided to change my user name. You think that was a mistake maybe ? I do not often back down from anything & I was born in & lived in Tennessee for most of my life & I am a dreamer of better things to come in this life.

5/22/2022 10:16:52 PM

Grittyville, WA

I think there is an aspect of the political left that wants to hide things... I dont think its healthy. False accusations, whether against ones own self or against anyone else... this is how genocidal communism gets started. Its not a war I started, I'm gonna fight back and Im glad others like Tenessee will to. Freedom of speach is awkward and uncomfortable but its the best way fight against the people who lie and benefit from lying. Theres a reason you have free speach... its because someone fought for it and said things that others didnt want to hear. Thats just how it works. Sweeping things under the carpet is communist. The HBO series John Adams is a good one to watch.

5/23/2022 9:54:59 AM

Grittyville, WA

Im over reacting of course, but Im going to err on the side of over reacting, as certain grumpy old dad might. In the big picture of it, no harm done.

5/23/2022 9:56:34 AM

Syracuse, NY

I had made a correction to where I had said 'Your grandchildren might be listening' to 'Your great-grandchildren might be listening' and yes, thought that the 'lol' would have a negative connotation, but only after having re-read THAT. No humor at them, in other words and only to myself for having to correct myself. I am sorry about your daughter - that is really young and oddly, a great friend of mine at work also passed away unexpectedly at about 35. A big hole is left in us each by such a thing---eg

5/23/2022 1:39:31 PM

formerly RGG

pumpkinpal2, it certainly hurts to lose our loved ones. I did not take my daughter's death very well. It just didn't seem right to me. But life goes on & I do not allow myself to dwell on negative things. I am a 12 plus years terminal cancer survivor. I concentrate on my healthy & negative mental thoughts are not healthy. Instead I concentrate good thoughts on friends & family, I get lots of quality sleep, I run & perform various other exercises, I do heat & cold treatments, I intermittent fast, & I concentrate my diet on fresh whole foods with low carbs plus no processed foods or added sugars & I take berberine also to help keep my blood sugar low. I have come a long way since my stage 4 oral cancer diagnosis. I no longer go to doctors & have never felt better in my life although I did get a small tear in my right quadrecep a couple of days ago while sprinting.

5/23/2022 8:55:01 PM

Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia

Original post- How safe are our children? How many teachers and teachers aids are in the US? No idea but it's exponentionialy higher than 135. In my tiny part of the Universe, I was the School Liason Officer for 6500 students for four years. During that time, about a half dozen teachers/ aides were charged for sex related crimes. A small percentage to be sure, so 135 in all of the US seems to me to be way better than we had here.

Isn't this the definition of a false narrative?

5/23/2022 9:52:19 PM

Upa Creek, Mo

From what I’ve seen many are 20 something female teachers having encounters with 16 and 17 yr old males. It is overwhelmingly the majority, but media remains quiet on who’s doing it.

Google “high school teacher arrested with student” and go to images. See all the mug shots? And those boys are not being raped, I was 17 once. They brag to their friends, parents find out and law gets involved.

Yes, there are other types of cases including sick male teachers, but I agree with Andy in general.

5/23/2022 10:33:34 PM

Syracuse, NY

Guess I should have handed out a few more shiny, red apples, lol---That'll be all from me - Many lessons lernt and I'll keep my distance - eric g ---Sprinting? U got ME beat, lol!!!

5/24/2022 5:01:36 AM

formerly RGG

pumpkinpal2, Sprinting for me means running as fast as I can for less than a minute. I don't claim to be fast as younger folks. I usually do this 3 times in my daily exercise routine. But the thing for me right now is I pulled my right hamstring the other day & so I have to take a pause for a week or so. And perhaps I will be slower to heal than when I was a young man. I am just doing my best to stay healthy & keep feeling well & keep my stage 4 cancer at bay.

5/24/2022 6:20:59 AM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Yes Andy, thanks for pointing that out and you are absolutely correct. There seems to be a lot of that (false narratives) on this message board lately.

5/25/2022 12:30:51 AM

Grittyville, WA

The people in power cant be trusted. Ever hear the line "I didnt have sexual relations with that woman." Or prior to that "Read my lips: no new taxes." I'd like to know who Northshore Boys believes killed JFK.

5/25/2022 12:55:03 AM

Grittyville, WA

...Or what about Epstein and his associates. (Closer to on topic...) Northshore and others seem to know everything with such confidence! High levels of self assuredness. I have trouble trusting people who are so confident.

5/25/2022 2:34:15 AM

formerly RGG

Grid, I, like most everyone in the USA was indoctrinated with left wing teachings. My dad was a Republican & I thought he was crazy. It took my a long time to see the light & switch my political views. Most everyone who is Democrat also was taught their values in school. And we see far left ideas in our cinema & in our universities, newspapers & news programs & in other ways. They are taught that everything from the right is a lie or is morally wrong in some way. So I cannot blame the folks for being lost. I only wish enlightenment for them.

5/25/2022 4:36:45 AM

Grittyville, WA

In some ways its the political parties themsrlves that have changed. The democrats have become pro wall street. Trump turned the republicans into a pro blue collar worker party, which the democrats used to be. I dont think I changed just the world around me did. Im pro environment and pro social justice... just not pro insanity. I think the democrats changed a lot starting with clinton.

5/25/2022 10:50:46 AM

Grittyville, WA

The people on this site who identify with the democrats share quite a lot in common with what we used to call republicans.

5/25/2022 10:54:54 AM

South Arkansas

Some of the most horrible sex crimes involving school age children comes from within the family. Students do not want to see family members jailed. Few cases are reported and are difficult to verify when reported. The number of actual incest cases are very likely much larger than the total number of cases involving school employees. Well trained school resource officers are a good source of help for school aged children that are being exploited. The money spent for good school resource officers is public money well spent.

5/25/2022 12:22:34 PM

formerly RGG

I totally agree Lloyd.

5/25/2022 6:45:28 PM