Boys Club: Private school privilege and a culture of cover up | Four Corners
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Length: 46min 47sec (2807 seconds)
Published: Mon Feb 17 2020
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This report introduces rowdy students doing a vulgar chant on a commuter train to implicate a 'culture of toxic masculinity' as the culprit behind the administration's secretive protection of pedophiles on staff.
But that connection sure is easier to suggest than make convincing. As the 4Corners team seems to know since they fly it at the beginning and then never circle back to pick it up again. The most recent school sex abuse scandal to erupt in my own city involves a small, secular, progressive, high-performing pre-K through middle school for both boys and girls. Opposite of St. Kevin's profile in nearly every way and yet its administration too ferociously protected and covered for multiple pedophiles who did far worse than grooming for years and years and years.
Considering the number of institutional sex abuse scandals in the news over the last many years—the Catholic Church, Boy Scouts, USA Gymnastics, etc., not to mention Jeffrey Epstein and his fellow traffickers ad infinitum—it should be easier for journalists to really focus on the specific motivations and mechanics of the bad actors without getting distracted by their own grand ideological fish they'd like to fry. And, similarly, it should also be easier for critical viewers to recognize when biased journalists or documentarians are introducing material that is retrospectively colored by the outrage without actually demonstrating that it is causative.
IMO boy/girl only schools were and have always been a bad idea. I went to one just like St. Kevin's: high adrenaline, sexism, war culture... you name it. Going to class isn't just about learning a subject, it's also about learning how to interact with your peers and teachers. It's important that we have enough exposure between different genders/cultures in this critical age as it will be crucial later in adulthood.
They are good schools academically but they lack the social element which I believe is equally important.
Just a bunch of elitist, privileged fuck tards. Feel sorry for the victims, but the culture if these boys schools is something from the 50's. And you wonder why there is an incresed disrepect for authority in society, with leaders coming from such institutions.