Sexual Abuse in the New York School System

           The issue of sexual abuse in the New York school system is a very sensitive issue to pretty much everyone in New York and also a huge headline for the news every time it happens. It is rightfully a sensitive issue since it leaves many questions such as how it happened? What could have possessed a teacher to do it? Why would anyone hire a teacher like this? Could it be happening in my own school?!
          However, this panic then leads to more problems. For instance, with all these questions, the issue of this teachers actions are easily attributed to their bosses, the principals and superintendents of the school, when they probably didn't even know it was happening. This then leads to these principals and superintendents getting transferred when no one told them that these teachers were committing this horrible act. Yet this is lost in the panic, and people all of a sudden expect school officials to know all that is happening in their schools at every second. The argument then becomes "Well isn't that what they are paid to do? Keep track of everything in their schools?" and this is true. However, just because they are getting paid doesn't mean that they can suddenly become all knowing. Human limitations still apply to them. In addition to this, the teachers committing these acts don't just do them where everyone can see. Also, these teachers can threaten kids into not telling anyone about it. Now if a school official does know about the abuse and allows it to continue, then that clearly should be punished.
          Also, people have to remember that we live in a society which is supposed to believe that those who are allegedly charged with a crime are still innocent until proven guilty. This could clearly be seen in the recent case in Syracuse University where a few men alleged that Bernie Fine had abused them when they attended Syracuse University. Fairly recently, one of the accusers has confessed that he only accused him for revenge against Fine for reasons other than sexual abuse. This was after weeks of scrutiny, under which Fine lost his job and was basically ostracized by society. Now there are other accusers so Fine isn't off the hook yet; however this shows how, in some cases (NOT ALL), kids can just blindly accuse teachers of doing these acts without evidence, and yet society will totally, without a doubt believe him or her. Now I'm not saying that we shouldn't  take kids who say they have been abused seriously, but rather that we need to investigate the case before blindly casting judgement on the accused.
          I hope I haven't offended in this post because that isn't what I intended to do. I just feel that these are serious flaws in how we look at these cases and we need to fix them. I'm the first to admit, I don't have the answers, but I still feel that we need to bring this up and look for a solution. Also, sorry there is no cartoon, but I can't find any that really fits well into this.