caulfield12
Joined: 21 Oct 2007
Location: Wuhan, China
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 Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: Do any organizations defend the reputation of teachers? |
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I was just curious if anyone had heard of something like this?
http://www.kansascity.com/433/story/325746.html
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2209000,00.html
In the last week, alone, there was a very detailed argue in the Associated Press, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Institute for Girls in South Africa, the Neil situation and another case of a Florida female teacher accused of having sex with a 16 year old student.
Should there be an organization to counter these stories from a public relations standpoint and "go on the offensive"?
In particular, with all the attention focused on the Karr and Neil cases and ESL teachers working in SE Asia, perhaps there should be more of a concentration on assisting victims of forced prostitution/trafficking as well as victims of sexual abuse (especially those committed by teachers)? I think a good place to start would be Thailand and Cambodia, with a secondary concentration on Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Something like TEACHERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING and SEXUAL ABUSE of CHILDREN (TATSAC)...just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are many name possibilities out there.
Is anyone interested?
I don't have the time to write another 501-c-3, I think the best thing to do would be to partner with an organization already working with victims in this area, such as (www.afesip.org) and the US-based part of the foundation, www.somaly.org. I don't pretend to know everything there is to know about this subject...and I'm not even sure if it's 100% appropriate for a male to even get involved, but there's no harm in trying. I have no problems with working "indirectly" to help, as I'm sure that most young women in these situations are not too trusting of males, and for many reasons. On the other hand, male teachers shouldn't be so emasculated by the problem or scared by "political correctness" that we don't even try to do anything to help.
One of the main purposes would be to find articulate and "camera charismatic" teachers to counter the plethora of negative images out there in the media whenever a case like this breaks into the public consciousness. Pretty soon, most Americans will start to think ALL teachers are abusing their children, not a VERY small percentage, and undoubtedly under the percentage of sexual assaults committed by the general population of any country.
Jim Wisler
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, China
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