[Breitbart] It’s like a pandemic: Weekly news reports of yet another teacher arrested for having an erotic relationship with a student – often a young, attractive female exploiting a teen male under the age of consent.
But this phenomenon of “educator sexual misconduct,” or ESM, is not as bad as it appears.
In fact, it’s worse.
Such stories evoke the prurient pop music theme found in the rock band Van Halen’s 1984 tune “Hot For Teacher.”
However, in the real world, the overwhelming majority of these criminal relationships are never disclosed and prosecuted, and their destructive impact on victims goes largely unreported.
It was “traumatic,” said Grant Strickland, a Greenville, North Carolina teen, one of the few boys to speak out years after a 33-year-old teacher Nicole Callaham allegedly groomed him in 2021 at age 14 with alcohol and marijuana into a two-year sexual relationship.
“I would never want someone to go through with what I went through,” he told reporters following a court hearing of his alleged abuser. “Because I don’t think most people would be showing up to survive it. Because I almost didn’t.”
In fact, exclusive interviews with leading researchers and forensic psychologists on the subject and an investigation by Breitbart News into the data reveals into that such sexual abuse is both underreported and understudied — despite being what one researcher called “a serious public health concern.”
The causes range from teacher shortages to undetected personality disorders in educators to what clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has called the collapse of Western values and the embrace of “subjective morality,” inflamed by an online world where anything goes.
As for the numbers and trends, the Department of Education (DOE) study of 50 million students in nearly all of the 100,000 schools in the U.S., updated in 2022, showed a nearly 100 percent increase in educator rape or attempted rape since an earlier study published in 2004.
That statistic actually underestimates problem because only six percent of student victims disclose what they experience, a previous DOE study revealed.
Shakeshaft has been studying the problem for four decades and is considered the nation’s leading expert on the issue, having authored the 2004 landmark study for the DOE under the Bush administration. It was Shakeshaft who formulated the six percent rate.
“It’s under underreported because a kid feels ashamed, like it was their fault,” the Virginia Commonwealth University department chair and professor emeritus explained. “It’s very common for [the perpetrator] to make the kid believe ‘if you wouldn’t be so sexy, if you wouldn’t always be acting this way, I wouldn’t be doing this.’ These are adults who have good shaming and good grooming language.”
Even with the under reporting, the spate of recent cases grabbing national headlines in the past six months defy being limited to any community or particular demographic.
A partial sampling of these stories covered by Breitbart News in the past six months include:
A Southern California woman, 36, goes from “teacher of the year” to a 30-years-to-life prison term for sexually abusing two of her sixth-grade students.
A 37-year-old female teacher in the Jersey Shore is sentenced to prison for grooming two students and then having sex with them in various locations, including her family’s bagel shop.
A 30-year-old substitute teacher Missouri receives a decade in prison for essentially turning her rural middle school students into male prostitutes, paying them for sex and rewarding them with drugs and alcohol.
In Wisconsin, two female teachers, both 25, face charges, one for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old boy while her colleague is accused of sexual assault on a 15-year-old.
The 28-year-old the daughter of the mayor of a tiny Oklahoma town of hardly 700 people — the young woman also the wife of the town’s police chief — is sentenced to prison for soliciting sex from a 15-year-old student.
A male teacher, 39, at an elite Brooklyn school prepping students for the Ivy League is serving time for engaging 13 to 15-year-old students in sexual conversations and obtaining from them nude photos and videos.
Shakeshaft was sounding the alarm 20 years ago. But the mainstream news media largely ignored her stunning findings and focused on condemning the Catholic Church.
“Think the Catholic Church has a problem?” Shakeshaft told the National Review in 2006. “The physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.”
While it’s the female teachers who make the headlines, that coverage is deceiving, according to Shakeshaft’s study and other research done by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
While academic teachers commit 63 percent of the abuse, followed by coaches and gym teachers at 20 percent, 85 percent of offenders were male. Nearly three quarters of victims were female.
Shakeshaft believes women grab the headlines because tabloid-style news outlets focus on the salacious value like that in the Van Halen video for clicks and readership.
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Think about this.
A person goes to a State certified college, takes years to obtain a teaching degree.
The person racks up $60K to $225+K in Educational loans.
The starting position might pay $60K to $75K a year until tenure. A basic salary that allows for only a basic lower mid-class standard of living in today's economy.
Now add-in the new over-exposed hormonal smartphone generation and its constant seeking to explore and try things.
#5
The starting position might pay $60K to $75K a year until tenure. A basic salary that allows for only a basic lower mid-class standard of living in today's economy.
What do you think they pulled in the 50s and 60s? Their salaries weren't relatively much different. However, we had a better caliber of teacher back then because teaching was still a major occupation for females. When the 60s hit, the smarter ones were able to get into other careers and we lost a core that maintained a degree of competency and professionalism. Add to that throwing out student discipline, its all been downward since then.
2. The word has gone out. That you'll be protected, even if you get caught. Therefore!!!, Become a teacher!!!!
3. Also, schools and school systems -- especially since BHO presidency -- have become more chaotic in recent years. Why? They are being forced to pretend to be All Things To All People All The Time. Imho, the chaos, the mayhem, the inability to expel any malcohtent students and any miscreant students ... it's created a breakdown of any kind of real Learning Ethos. Chaos begets more chaos.
Imho, enrolling your child in schools these days is like walking your child through a minefield. It's nuts.
[Real Clear Politics] n the coming months, Americans will be invited to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday. The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission aims to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence by engaging "all 350 million Americans by our nation’s 250th anniversary."
The 250th is quite a milestone and it occurs during a period of deep polarization, with Republicans and Democrats not only disagreeing on policies but on basic facts. A cloud of angst hangs over many Americans. Not surprisingly, our national survey on America at 250 finds the country is largely split along partisan lines as to whether its best days lie ahead (46%) or if they are already behind us (46%).
In spite of this, we find Americans are remarkably united in support of the nation’s founding principles — even as they worry the country is failing to live up to them. Against heavy odds, this creates an opportunity to change the political climate — particularly through an honest assessment of our nation’s history.
The Founders understood that political conflict was inevitable. James Madison warned about the "mischiefs of faction," and George Washington cautioned against the dangers of political parties. At the same time, the Constitution’s system of checks and balances deliberately divided power among competing institutions to prevent its concentration in any one place.
Observers of the Founders recognize that conflict was built into the system from the start. The same principles that Americans overwhelmingly support — separated powers, competing institutions, and democratic participation — also produces political friction.
#1
Observers of the Founders recognize that conflict was built into the system from the start.
They didn't envision a imperial judiciary that is owned and operated by one section of the society. Non-lawyers could be judges back then. Today its a cabal.
[ZERO] Last year the Trump administration designated Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) as a terrorist group, allowing the military to carry out strikes against it and its leadership, but the massive drug cartel across the border understands the weaknesses of our system all too well.
That's why its new leader has American citizenship.
Law enforcement, intelligence agencies and the military will have to jump through all sorts of legal hoops to spy on, target or take out Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez, who has a $5 million bounty on his head, but he has the best protection in the world because he was born in California.
The new cartel leader's drug-dealing Mexican parents had a baby in America. That child became a US citizen who runs a Mexican drug cartel that the government has designated as being at war with the United States, and yet we can't simply remove his citizenship.
And targeting the cartel boss without removing his citizenship will set off wails from Democrats and the Tucker Carlson wing of the GOP, who still whine that the United States took out Anwar Al-Awlaki, the head of Al Qaeda's Yemeni operation, a sworn enemy of America, who happened to be born here when his father, a grad student, was in New Mexico on a Fulbright scholarship.
Americans of a century ago would have been baffled that foreign enemy leaders who happened to be born to foreign nationals in this country were somehow immune to being killed in battle or that their citizenship couldn't be quickly and easily removed. Back then most of our modern problems were unthinkable because committing treason, aligning with any foreign government, including joining its army or voting in its elections, marrying a foreigner or just returning to your home country meant denaturalization. (As did dodging the draft or deserting from the military.)
Had the common-sense provisions of the Expatriation Act of 1907 or even the milder Nationality Act of 1940 been in force today, we wouldn't have the farce of cartel and terrorist leaders who still hold our citizenship, active traitors with citizenship, "refugees" who spend most of their time back home or a Somali senator linked to fraud who is still voting in Minnesota elections.
Under these provisions, Bill Clinton would have lost his citizenship, and the "refugees" and "migrants" who maintain homes abroad, the women who marry foreign nationals for cash to give them citizenship, and the anchor baby would be as extinct as the dodo.
Unfortunately, a series of poorly grounded Supreme Court decisions unconstitutionally seized the powers of the executive and legislative branches to withdraw citizenship on most grounds based on a misreading of the notoriously poorly written Fourteenth Amendment.
The Warren Court's deliberate misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment's awkward attempt to define all black people as citizens, "all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power... are declared to be citizens," somehow trumped the clear language of Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 that Congress has the power "to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization". In a series of bad decisions, Supreme Court rulings argued that serving in a foreign military, desertion, marrying foreigners, and voting abroad did not merit denaturalization.
These rulings relied on now widely discredited premises, such as defining the Constitution's "cruel and unusual punishment" term as being anything that the justices disapproved of, and "evolving standards of decency" which allowed judges to redefine the law to fit liberal mores.
These abuses of judicial activism that reached their peak during the Warren Court also gutted the constitutional powers of Congress and made denaturalization a dead letter in the law.
By the time Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez held that a Mexican born in the United States who returned to Mexico to avoid military service couldn't be stripped of his citizenship because it violated his due process, denaturalization was a dead letter that could hardly be utilized except for naturalization fraud by immigrants who had lied about not committing war crimes abroad.
This was not strictly true because the provisions punishing treason or allegiance to an enemy power with denaturalization are theoretically still in effect, but administrations haven't had the stomach to try them out. The Trump administration may be willing to take on "treason citizenship" and a more conservative Supreme Court may be willing to overturn Earl Warren.
Indeed, even the Fourteenth Amendment had emphasized "not subject to any foreign power".
Both the left and the right tend to misunderstand "birthright citizenship." The Fourteenth Amendment's accidental introduction of the foreign concept into American law helped demolish citizenship as a meaningful participatory act rather than the involuntary one it was elsewhere.
"Birthright citizenship" is neither an immigrant ideal nor "magic dirt." Rather it was the principle of "Jus Soli" or "Right of the Soil," which, in British law, was limited to those "born under the obedience, power, faith, ligealty or ligeance of the King". America's founding principles were highly skeptical of both notions that were rooted in monarchial, rather than republican principles.
Monarchy made everyone born under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the Crown into a "subject". Allegiance to the Crown was not voluntary the way that it was in America. That was why the Founding Fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, labored to defend the right of "expatriation" which still remains the only unquestioned form of denaturalization.
The American Revolution was predicated on the idea of citizenship as a voluntary action rather than an involuntary compact created by a place of birth. The growing intrusion of "Jus Soli" began with the Fourteenth Amendment, which, rather than quickly naturalizing freed black slaves, clumsily made everyone born here and "not subject to any foreign power" citizens.
By the late 19th century, the Supreme Court had begun dismantling any meaningful limitations on citizenship, with United States v. Wong Kim Ark embracing the British notion that the sovereignty under which a child was born made him a citizen. But if sovereignty makes a child a citizen, then Anwar Al-Awlaki and Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez are fully American.
And that's not only absurd; it's national suicide.
The prototype for American citizenship is neither "Jus Soli" nor the "Sovereignty of the Crown," but the concluding words of the Declaration of Independence, in which we "pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." A nation built on anything else is either a tyranny or an absurdity. Some on the left and the right now argue for tyranny or absurdity.
Birthright citizenship is not a liberal idea but an illiberal one. It was liberal only relative to the even more illiberal idea that citizenship came from personal allegiance to a monarch. America was based on neither tyranny nor absurdity, but a voluntary community of mutual allegiance that it is possible to join and to withdraw from, and to be tossed out of and barred from for disloyalty.
Past Supreme Court decisions reversed the tyrannical one-way allegiance of monarchy and instead replaced it with a one-way allegiance in which the state was obligated to do everything for the citizen, but nothing at all was required from the citizen. Not even allegiance. Even asking them not to run terrorist organizations and drug cartels at war with America is asking too much.
No nation can survive on such principles.
America is not a monarchy or a tyranny, and there are legitimate concerns about giving the state the easy power to strip away citizenship, but if citizenship can't even be removed from the people who pledge allegiance to Al Qaeda and ISIS, then, to paraphrase President John F. Kennedy, what does it ask of us to do for our country, and what does it even mean beyond a set of legal complications?
The only pathway to reviving America is to make citizenship into a meaningful act of allegiance, not an accident of birth. Immigration in this regard is not the problem; immigration without allegiance is the real crisis, but so is the citizenship without allegiance of the likes of Bill Ayers of the "Weather Underground" who can trace his ancestry back to John Ayer, who came to this country from England in 1635 and was one of the original settlers of some of the Puritan towns.
America needs to exercise the traditional ability it once had to make citizenship meaningful by also making it selective, controlling immigration, ending the automatic grants of citizenship for happenstance births, and once again making citizenship conditional on ongoing allegiance.
Anything else is not citizenship; it's a national death wish.
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Birthright citizenship, open borders and a welfare state are a highly destructive cocktail.
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Birthright starts when a immigrant has legally become a US Citizen.
Not because they ILLEGALLY crossed a border, and happen to have a foot in the door so to speak.
Simple rule of law.
Criminals shall not gain from their illegal activates.
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Imagine if someone broke into your upstairs guest bedroom, had a child there and came down to declare they are now all part of your family and ask what's for breakfast, they need lunch money and can they borrow the car tonight!
#9
Why is it that my entering into your house without permission is considered trespassing, but if I crossed a border to do so, it is not considered trespassing?
[ZeroHedge] Unfortunately, the ease with which the government now enjoys the ability to surreptitiously, without meaningful oversight or the knowledge of the mark, stock large amounts of highly personal information on American citizens — which, unlike the physical search of a residence, for example, are not easily documented by watchdogs — complicates that ability to restrain the government, which, by its nature, as is the case for any human organization, as the Founders warned, is constantly interested in expanding its powers and authorities.
At a recent Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel, in a much-under-reported exchange with Sen. Ron Wyden, defended the agency’s longstanding but previously unacknowledged practice of buying data on American citizens wholesale from Big Tech, the capacity to collect which, again, has been greatly enhanced by the use of artificial intelligence to comb through electronic communications, and will only be further enhanced with the progression of time.
From the transcript:
“Wyden:
Fine. Director Patel, a question for you. In 2023, your predecessor testified that, and I quote, “To my knowledge, we do not currently purchase commercial database information that includes location data derived from internet advertising.” Is that the case still? And if so, can you commit this morning to not buying Americans’ location data?
Patel:
Thank you. The FBI uses all tools, Senator, thank you for the question, to do our mission. We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the Constitution and the laws, under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. And it has led to some valuable intelligence for us to be utilized with our private and partner sectors.
Wyden:
So, you’re saying that the agency will buy Americans’ location data. I believe that that’s what you’ve said in kind of intelligence lingo. And I just want to say, as we start this debate, doing that without a warrant is an outrageous end run around the Fourth Amendment. It’s particularly dangerous, given the use of artificial intelligence to comb through massive amounts of private information.”
GOING FORWARD
With A.I. and the rush to build localized metro Data (tracking) Centers. When these are activated, any personal communication or privacy is likely eliminated.
In the IT-SEC field.
When tracking down certain suspected employee/Dark-Hat issues, or doing a BkGrd investigation on possible future staff for certain companies. It was common to pay tracking sites for a suspects or prospected hires personal internet data.
JD Vance | Saving Western Civilization by Fighting Demons, Will We Survive?
0:00 - Intro 1:13 - Advice to Young Men 3:00 - Fighting Fraud 5:59 - Ilhan Omar Immigration Fraud 7:16 - Tim Walz 7:48 - The SAVE America Act 11:50 - Mass Deportations 13:44 - Response to Joe Rogan 15:12… pic.twitter.com/A2fwHVTLVu
[FoxNews] CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper said it plainly in a March 11 video update: AI tools help U.S. forces sift through vast data in seconds so commanders make decisions faster than the enemy can react. Tasks that once took days now take seconds. Humans still approve the final targets. However, the machine does the analysis.
At the heart of that process is Palantir’s Maven Smart System, running on Anthropic’s Claude. NBC News confirmed that Palantir’s AI identified potential targets in ongoing strikes. The Washington Post reported AI enabled U.S. forces to hit 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours.
Retired Admiral Mark Montgomery told CBS News the military now processes roughly a thousand targets a day with turnaround under four hours — a pace no previous campaign has matched. Palantir CEO Alex Karp confirmed on CNBC that Claude is still running inside the targeting system despite the supply chain designation.
As I document in "The New AI Cold War," that shift is now baked into doctrine. The classic Observe-Orient-Decide-Act loop has shrunk to two steps: machines observe and decide; commanders orient and act. Strip away the jargon and the meaning is plain — the machine is now doing the thinking.
UKRAINE WAS THE PROVING GROUND
Operation Epic Fury did not emerge from a vacuum. Ukraine was the laboratory. As "The New AI Cold War" documents, Ukraine’s integration of Palantir’s MetaConstellation — drawing on Starlink satellites, weather data and civilian smartphone uploads — compressed Kyiv’s entire operations cycle to machine speed, helping offset Russia’s numerical advantage.
Ukraine retrained publicly available AI models on frontline combat data and deployed them across its drone fleet, boosting strike accuracy from 10–20% to 70–80%. Drones now account for 70–80 percent of battlefield casualties in Ukraine, with AI targeting added to platforms for as little as $25 per unit.
Russia absorbed those lessons and passed them to Tehran. The Kremlin supplied Iran with Shahed-136 drones upgraded with AI navigation that defeats GPS jamming — technology first tested against Ukraine. And China supplies roughly 80% of the critical technologies inside Russian drones. That coalition has been slow to register in Washington. It should not be.
SILICON VALLEY IS NOW IN THE CROSSHAIRS
Iran drew the logical conclusion: if American military power flows through servers, destroy the servers. The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency published a target list naming Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle and Palantir — 29 locations across the UAE, Israel, Qatar and Bahrain — captioned "enemy’s technological infrastructure."
This was not rhetoric. Iranian drone strikes had already hit two AWS data centers in the UAE and a third in Bahrain before the list appeared. AWS confirmed structural damage, disrupted power, and fire suppression at its facilities. Nvidia’s stock fell roughly 9% in two days. Wall Street finally caught up to what every strategist already knew: U.S. military power runs through servers as surely as it runs through F-35s.
A GAS NOBODY TALKS ABOUT COULD HALT CHIP PRODUCTION
Consider the threat receiving almost no attention — and carrying the greatest economic consequence for Americans at home. AI runs on semiconductors. Semiconductors require helium — non-substitutable under current manufacturing processes. Qatar produces a third of the world’s helium at its Ras Laffan Industrial City. On March 2, Iranian drone strikes forced QatarEnergy to halt all production. Force majeure followed two days later. Subsequent strikes inflicted what QatarGas called "extensive" damage — annual helium exports cut 14%, repairs expected to take years.
Spot helium prices have doubled. Industry veteran Phil Kornbluth told CNBC six-week resumption is best-case and "highly unlikely." South Korea sourced 64.7% of its helium from Qatar in 2025; Taiwan sourced 69% from Gulf nations in 2024. Together they hold 36% of global chip production. No helium. No chips. No AI. And without AI, the military edge carrying this war degrades with it.
A WAR WITHIN THE WAR Anthropic — whose Claude model is running target analysis in Iran — refused to allow its technology for autonomous lethal weapons or domestic surveillance. The Trump administration designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk" and moved to pull the contract. Anthropic sued. Pentagon spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson was blunt: "America’s warfighters … will never be held hostage by unelected tech executives and Silicon Valley ideology."
Claude remains embedded through a six-month phase-out. OpenAI has offered classified network access. Google has deployed AI agents for non-classified military use. No settled rules govern what any of these systems are authorized to do. Not yet.
This war is proving, in real time, that technology infrastructure is military infrastructure. Data centers are wartime targets. A gas most people associate with party balloons is a strategic chokepoint. The world’s most powerful AI targeting system is running in combat while a federal court battle over who controls it plays out in Washington.
The battlefield came to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley was not ready.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
