Coaches Who Prey: Districts Often Make Deals or Look the Other Way. Maureen O'Hagan and Christine Willmsen.
by O'Hagan, Maureen; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 308Institutions. Publisher: The Seattle Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-3256;.DDC classification: 050 Summary: "In a year-long investigation, The Seattle Times found that 159 Washington coaches have been reprimanded or fired in the past decade because of sexual misconduct...at least 98 of them continued coaching or teaching afterward." (THE SEATTLE TIMES) This article describes how investigators found that "school administrators often conduct cursory inquiries of sexual-misconduct complaints against coaches, and rarely alert police to complaints of sexual abuse," noting "even when school officials find wrongdoing, they often bow to pressure from the teachers union, handing out mild punishments or none at all."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Coaches Who Prey: Districts Often Make Deals or Look the Other Way, Dec. 15, 2003; pp. A1+.
"In a year-long investigation, The Seattle Times found that 159 Washington coaches have been reprimanded or fired in the past decade because of sexual misconduct...at least 98 of them continued coaching or teaching afterward." (THE SEATTLE TIMES) This article describes how investigators found that "school administrators often conduct cursory inquiries of sexual-misconduct complaints against coaches, and rarely alert police to complaints of sexual abuse," noting "even when school officials find wrongdoing, they often bow to pressure from the teachers union, handing out mild punishments or none at all."
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