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Charles Hobson, Ph.D., addresses serious issue of ?Passing the Trash? in K-12 schools

Around the 10-year anniversary of his first book, ?The Lecherous University: What Every Student and Parent Should Know about the Epidemic of Sexual Harassment on Campus,? lead author Charles Hobson, Ph.D., decided the book?s second edition should include a chapter about the problem in K-12 schools.

But, when the Indiana University Northwest Professor of Management set out to research the topic, he said, the information he discovered was so unspeakably shocking that the topic begged a book all its own.

?Doing the background research for what I was planning to have as just a chapter,? Hobson said, ?I ran into some statistics that I had never seen or heard before that were so shocking, I said, ?Somebody has to do something about this.??

The resulting book, ?Passing the Trash: A Parent?s Guide to Combat Sexual Abuse/Harassment of Their Children in School,? published by CreateSpace in the fall of 2012, educates readers about the alarming frequency of sexual abuse and harassment in K-12 education and provides advice to help parents protect their children and hold the appropriate leaders and institutions accountable.

Hobson said three studies prompted his fervor about releasing a book devoted to the problem of sexual abuse and harassment in K-12 education.

First, a 2004 report by the U.S. Department of Education estimated that nearly 4.5 million (almost 10 percent) of students will have been sexually abused or harassed by an educator sometime between kindergarten and 12^th?grade.

Second, Hobson learned from a 2010 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress about the frequency of a silent practice happening in schools known as ?passing the trash,? in which sexual offenders are encouraged to resign voluntarily in exchange for the school providing positive letters of reference and not reporting incidents to police or taking any disciplinary action.

Finally, Hobson learned from a 2001 national survey by the American Association of University Women that 81 percent of students in grades 8 through 11 had experienced sexual harassment at school and that 38 percent of the respondents said that teachers (and other school employees) sexually harass students.?(more?)

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About John Laws

Catholic, married, pro-life, pro-family, parent. Active in the Knights of Columbus. Member of the staff at The Interim, Canada's Life and Family Newspaper.

Source: http://johnlaws.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/iu-northwest-management-professor-pens-parents-guide-to-combating-sexual-abuse-harassment/

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