First, I have chronic strep. I don't know if a simple round of Anti biotics would clear up my health shit. That would be too much to ask for. But on anti biotics I am. The medical way. Is that the best way? I don't know.

Second. The Seattle times has done a year long investigation thing on washingon state teacher/sports coaches getting away with sexually abusing students. It appears that the teachers union and superintendents are basically covering this shit up. Like, in one instance it took 2-3 years ( I think longer ) for once incicdent to be investigated. Why is this happening? Well, they're good coaches who have winning teams. Why did it take the Seattle Times a year to investigate. Because of all the road blocks, i.e., legal battles and so forth.

This Letter to the Editor say it all.

"As the parent of a daughter in the Bellevue School District, and a girls soccer coach with the Lake Hills Soccer Club, I am appalled by the Bellevue School District's response to The Seattle Times' request for information about teachers and coaches accused of sexual misconduct ("Coaches who prey: The abuse of girls and the system that allows it," four-part series, page one, Dec. 14-Dec. 17).

The education of our children is the mission and responsibility of our School District. The district does not exist to employ teachers, but rather employs teachers and coaches to serve children. The Bellevue School District, however, seems content to allow adults in positions of trust and responsibility to prey on children, rather than to "drag current or former employees through public attention to such matters."

The district's complicity with the Washington Education Association to protect teachers and coaches who have histories of sexual misconduct at the expense of student safety and well-being is in every way contrary to the educational mission, as well as being contrary to any measure of moral principle or human decency. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

I hope Mike Riley, the superintendent of Bellevue Schools, understands that all the AP classes in the world can't replace a childhood stolen by a coach or teacher who never should have been allowed to hold that trust."

Mary Worley, Bellevue

To read the articles, go Here. If it's happening in my state, how many states have this happening?

P.S. The Times is also naming these coaches who have been caught for sexual misconduct. And posting their pictures.

And just a comment. Here in Washington state, when Mary Ka*y Letournea*u was going through her trial, and was actually charged, she was first given a very lax sentence. At the same time that was going on, there was a teacher named M*ark Blile*y, who was dragged through the coals for doing the very same thing. My friend and I were discussing the Letournea*u situation. She was a predator. She did the very same thing that male predators do, but she was was given basically a slap on the wrists. Mark Blile*y got the sentence he deserved, but it amazes and confuses me that Letournea*u, a predator, was treated so differently. I know why. It's just so sick.

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