Key Takeaways:
- Research data shows that 17% — one out of six – public school students will experience sexual misconduct from a school employee before they graduate from high school.
- The sexual misconduct is covered up by administrators and by the teacher unions.
- Parents need to talk more with their kids about what they are experiencing in school – and get involved in their local school board.
- The banishment of God and of objective moral values from public school curriculum is one factor causing blatant sexual misconduct.
- The hyper-sexualization of American society – gender dysphoria and transgender ideology – is another factor exacerbating sexual misconduct.
- School district administrators need to be required to fire – not transfer – teachers found to be committing sexual misconduct.
It’s shocking.
It’s mind-boggling.
It’s unconscionable.
It’s inexcusable.
Innocent children sexually harassed … exposed to sexual perversion…
At school.
And the employees committing the sexual misconduct?
Protected by the school district.
Protected by the teacher’s union.
Protected by the state.
Quietly transferred to another school within the district.
Carol Shakeshaft – professor emeritus of Virginia Commonwealth University – authored a 2024 book on educator sexual misconduct, Organizational Betrayal: How Schools Enable Sexual Misconduct and How to Stop It.
Her research data from two studies commissioned by the Department of Justice: 17% of children in public schools experience sexual misconduct on the part of a teacher or other school employee.[1]
Why is this happening?
Here are 5 contributing causes.
- Parents are not involved enough in their children’s lives.
It’s difficult for parents of school-age kids to stay connected with them.
Full-time work is exhausting – parents want to relax in the evening, not talk to their kids about what happened at school.
It’s especially hard for single-parents with school-age children.
Over 89% of U.S. parents send their kids to public schools – funded by and controlled by government.
Attendance in pre-K through 12th grade in 2024-2025 was 49.6 million.
Parents assume their kids are in a safe environment and well taken care of at school.
But for one out of every 5 kids, they aren’t.
One out of 5 kids is bullied.
One out of 6 kids will experience sexual misconduct from a teacher or other public school employee before graduating from high school.
That’s almost 10 million innocent children who will be mistreated at school.
And parents often are unaware due to lack of communication with their kids.
- God has been banished from public school curriculum – and largely from family life and from society.
The Supreme Court removed classroom prayer from public schools in 1962.
The Court banned school-sponsored Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer from public schools in 1963.
The elimination of God and the Bible also eliminates objective moral standards.
Relativism is now the morality taught in public schools – and that’s the morality that school employees are displaying.
Do whatever makes you feel good.
- The extreme hyper-sexualization of American society in recent decades.
Abandoning absolute truth and objective moral standards that applied to everyone led to moral relativism.
Moral relativism led to the sexual revolution in the late 1960s.
The sexual revolution eventually led to the differentiation of biological sex and gender identity.
The first LGBT curriculum was introduced into the K-12 public school curriculum in California in 2011 with the passage of the FAIR Education Act.
Transgender ideology is now normalized throughout the nation under the dual umbrellas of inclusion and a new definition of tolerance.
Kids in the early elementary grades are encouraged to question their gender assigned at birth.
- It’s virtually impossible to fire a bad public school teacher.
Complaints of unprofessional or immoral behavior are ignored
The teacher unions protect teachers accused of abuse.
The school district administrators protect them to avoid scandal.
When misconduct surfaces, they just transfer the guilty teacher to a different school.
They call it “passing the trash.”
- The media has exposed some of the abuse, but there needs to be much more reporting.
The sexual misconduct of Catholic priests and the cover-ups of abuse became national headlines.
The sexual abuse of public school employees hasn’t gained the national attention it deserves.
Some stories have been reported in print media:
- 2010 – A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report documented cases in which school districts failed to report sexual misconduct to local law enforcement.
- 2017 – The Oregonian/Oregon Live reported that Portland Public Schools helped a teacher evade allegations of sexual misconduct.
- 2022 – Business Insider reporter Matt Drange exposed that a teacher at his high school alma mater groomed students for two decades.
- 2025 – The Cap Times – in a yearlong investigation – reported that the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction had investigated more than 200 teachers and administrators for sexual misconduct or grooming between 2018 and 2023.[2]
- 2026 – A Chalkbeat watchdog report revealed widespread sexual misconduct and grooming at a Chicago public school campus.[3]
The biased mainstream media doesn’t generally highlight GAO reports on their news broadcasts.
The other examples above are local stories that never reached the level of national reporting.
The awareness of the extent of sexual misconduct among public school administrators, teachers, coaches and employees at all levels needs to reach parents of school-aged kids nationwide.
This won’t happen by itself – public pressure to do the right thing is necessary.
Action Items – What You Can Do:
- If you have school-aged children or grandchildren, seriously consider removing them from public school. Public schools are indoctrinating – teaching kids what to think – rather than educating – teaching them how to think, and encouraging them to think for themselves. They are unlikely to improve anytime soon. Prayerfully consider your options:
* Christian school
* Homeschool
* Private academy
* Charter school - Get involved in your local school board meetings. Ask questions about school curriculum, reading lists, how to contact school district administrators, etc.
- If you have children or grandchildren in public schools, talk to them about their experiences in school. Ask about their teachers. Ask them if there is bullying at their school.
- Pray for your kids’ teachers. Pray for school board members and for school district administrators – that they won’t cover up sexual misconduct or teacher incompetence.
- Urge your state legislature or local school board to remove public school administrators who fail to fire teachers who are committing sexual misconduct.
- Urge your senators and representatives in Congress to eliminate teacher unions.
What do you think? Email me at [email protected].
FAQs:
- Why is the percentage of public school students experiencing sexual misconduct so high?
A. The article gives 5 contributing factors. The main reasons are the total moral decline in American society, the fact that abuse is ignored and/or covered up by school administrators, and the fact that the mainstream media has not raised public awareness of the problem. - Why do public school administrators cover up sexual misconduct and transfer guilty teachers to other schools?
A. School administrators want to avoid scandal in their districts at all costs to protect their reputations and their careers. - Why hasn’t the mainstream media brought the widespread sexual misconduct of public school teachers to national attention?
A. The mainstream media’s primary goal isn’t what you think it is: it’s not to report news objectively; it’s to control what you think. The sexual misconduct of Catholic priests was national news because it hates God and religion. The media downplays the sexual misconduct of teachers because it doesn’t want you to think negatively of public school education.
About Craig Huey:
Craig Huey is the founder of Huey Alert and a nationally recognized conservative Christian strategist, author, and speaker who helps Americans understand—and act at—the intersection of faith, politics, and freedom.
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- Founder of a marketing and political consulting agency that’s won 124 marketing awards active since Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign
- Advertising agency for small and large corporations.
- Political consultant to winning candidates nationwide using geofencing and advance AI and digital marketing.
- Interviewed in 148 TV, radio, and podcast appearances during the 2024 election cycle
- Speaker for hundreds of organizations, including over 100 churches
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Author of multiple books, including:
- The Deep State: 15 Surprising Dangers You Should Know
- The Great Deception: 10 Shocking Dangers and the Blueprint for Rescuing the American Dream
- The Christian Voter: 7 Non-Negotiables for Voting For, Not Against, Your Values
- The New Multichannel, Integrated Marketing: 28 Trends for Creating a Multichannel, Integrated Campaign to Boost Your Profits Now
- Craig has been regularly on national media multiple times such as FOX, FOX Business, OAN and Newsmax.
He doesn’t analyze politics from the sidelines. He helps win battles that shape the future.
[1] Michael Schwartz, https://www.westernjournal.com/evil-catherine-herridge-drops-jarring-school-predator-stat-17-percent-american-kids-experienced-sexual-misconduct-teacher/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=top-news-alert&utm_campaign=news-alert&utm_content=2026-03-03
[2] Danielle DuClos, https://captimes.com/news/education/200-teacher-sexual-misconduct-grooming-cases-shielded-from-public/article_c2e4834b-ede3-42a1-b610-24d0826a197f.html
[3] Mila Koumpilova, https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026/01/07/chicago-public-schools-watchdog-report-sexual-misconduct-little-village-campus/