Very disturbing.

This year as we made the decision what school to send our little tyke to, scandal breaks out yet again. http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/search/?LookFor=1&SearchPage
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Looking at why we made the decision to send our boy to a private School, it is not that simple. Quality of education I suppose would be the main motivation. No, not I suppose, it is in fact the sole factor in deciding.

This post is not intended to throw about Sandra Geisel’s name or speak of her situation, you can read about that yourself in the news columns. Christian Brothers Academy was one of the Schools we were looking at but quickly dismissed it. Two reasons, but first and foremost was that they do not have a Pre-K. Not sure, but I think they start around Junior High age. SO we could not even consider them.

The second deciding factor was a bit more complicated. We didn’t want him in a military school, not that we are against it, as I have many years in military, but that his personality does not seem to fit that format.

Part of the other reasons are more basic I suppose. We know several men who are adults with families of their own now, who are CBA graduates. I am not impressed with either of them. Yes, they have a fine family and thy make an OK, living, but they don’t seem to show any special qualities that would lead me to believe that the education they received there is better than any other education.

One, as a matter of fact is an Attorney now, not a good Attorney average, with not so high ambitions. How I know this is we were once on the road to a friendship, then something odd happened. This was pre baby days for us. He worked with my wife’s company, and was a salesperson while going to Law School.

He met this woman, and they would come over to the house and we all have dinner and do the things people do when building a friendship. One day his now fiancé turns up in the news. She was a teacher, but not CBA, it was a local Catholic High School. You can guess, yes, she was arrested for the same thing Geisel is being accused of. She would drive the boys across the state on sport’s trips or something and seems when they had to get a Hotel, well, she thought one bed in the room was enough.

She spent a year I think in jail, and had her teaching license revoked.

So, now that the decision has been made to send our boy to a private School to get a solid education, I am mixed about the sexual misconduct case cropping up. The very School he will be attending is a small Christian School, and two years ago had their own sex scandal. A male senior member was messing with the young children there, I don’t know the details all is hush hush about it, when I pressed the School, they didn’t go into it. Their statement is that that faculty member has been removed. Was he arrested, jailed, I wanted know, but no one had any answers.

Sadly we can not know who is a sexual predator. They don’t wear a sign on them saying they are, and in most cases they turn out to be the person next door, or a trusted friend or colegue or trusted community member. They work themselves into these trusted positions in order to gain access to their intended target.

We as parents and community members have to be vigilant and on gard and look for the signs. It is a terrible thing that we cannot simply trust everyone who attends to our children. There are no assurances, that the people with whom we leave our children with daily don’t have an agenda.

I would home School if that were an option. Our children grow up too fast as it is. For them to be cheated out of those precious years, is a crime, and the only way we can prevent those crimes is as parents to be ever vigilant.