A high school coach/teacher and a history/government teacher didn’t see major red flags upon reading the first set of e-mails?
Hastert taught for 16 years. I believe Shimkus taught for around 7 years.
The notion that two high school teachers–one of whom is a coach where such issues are especially common with female students–didn’t call for an immediate investigation is….
I don’t know it’s so incredibly stupid.
Teachers. Teachers. Teachers didn’t know to do something and left more young men vulnerable to this clown?
If they were still teachers they’d be at least in danger of losing their license and potentially liable for not mandatorily reporting the original incidents.
Can you imagine your local school district dealing with a teacher or principal who didn’t investigate on the first set of e-mails?
I don’t know if Stover can use this effectively since his name recognition is nill, but I’d bet DCCC will have a poll in the field by the end of the weekend.
Laesch, well, he’s probably arguing with another Democrat on a blog.
Teachers. Every possible excuse they could make–and so far even if they weren’t teachers, those excuses were lame–are completely bogus. We had mandatory reporting laws when both of these assclowns were teaching. Maybe they slept through the trainings.
Your criticism of me is unfair. I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the Levi’s.
You sound like one of those “dirtbags” Chris Doherty from Reading First was talking about.
Given the media “coverage” of this in Shimkus’ district that poll isn’t going to show anything.
Rich Miller is pretty sour on Illinois’ journos at this point and with damn good reason. The Aurora paper (part of SunTimes group) buried their first stories at the back of the front section. Papers down south were tripping all over each other publishing contradictory quotes from Congressmen and staffers.
“Inept” is not a strong enough word to describe the media coverage across the Prairie State, from north to south, biggest to smallest. When the Bellville News-Democrat and Chicago Tribune are both taking equal time being spun like tops something’s drastically wrong with the Fourth Estate (but if you’re reading this or any other political blog you likely already realize this).
See Rich’s posts here, here and here