Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Coaches

Series: "Coaches who Prey: The abuse of girls and the system that allows it"
Written by: Christine Willmsen and Maureen O'Hagan
Date: Dec 14-17, 2003
Seattle Times
In a dark side of the growing world of girls sports, 159 coaches have been reprimanded or fired for sexual misconduct in the past decade. And 98 continued to coach or teach — as schools, the state and even some parents looked the other way.
The Series includes Coaches who prey, Solutions, Q&A, and Followup. Two Seattle Times staff reporters spent a year investigating the sexual misconduct of Washington coaches.

What they could, and did, find out about coaches could be said of educators in general.