There's an episode of South Park that addressed something no one was talking about at the time, and it had to do with an issue springing up in our schools. The episode was absolutely hysterical, as most of Matt Stone and Trey Parker's creations are, but like most episodes of South Park, it was using absurdity to highlight a real issue.
Everything from the episode's title to its content was meant to draw attention to something awful happening in our schools and yet was very rarely talked about, much less met with disgust when it was brought up. In fact, one of the running jokes in the episode was people hearing what happened in the school and reacting with "...nice."
Some of you already know what I'm talking about.
In our school system is a serious issue of teachers raping their students. The legacy media often likes to couch the act in less severe terms, often saying things like "teacher has sexual relationship with student" or "educator engages in intercourse" with student, but these are quite often minors. The only appropriate term for this is "rape."
And it's happening far more than we think it is.
Studies have shown that a whopping 10 percent of students (over 4.5 million students) will endure sexual misconduct by educators or school staff by the time they graduate high school.
These are considered conservative numbers. Male students tend to underreport their experiences under the perception that they are either lying or were willing participants. Studies suggest that anywhere from 90 to 95 percent of sexual assault towards males goes unreported due to societal perceptions.
To be clear, this doesn't always include rape. It can also mean "physical, verbal or visual behavior, from sexually related jokes or pictures of sex to fondling of breasts and forced sex," as reported by NBC News.
As NBC News uncovered while dissecting a 2004 report required by the "No Child Left Behind" law, many educators get away with this due to manipulating the student or even terrifying them:
The report describes schools as places where abusers come to prey, targeting vulnerable and marginal students who are afraid to complain or unlikely to be believed if they did. It describes adults who trap, lie and isolate children, making them subject to unwanted behavior in hallways, offices, buses or even right in front of other students in class. And the offenders work hard to keep kids from telling, threatening to fail or humiliate them.
That same report was able to dissect some of the particulars.
For instance, 6.7 percent of the children reported sexual contact.
Another 8.7 percent reported noncontact sexual behaviors such as suggestive language or being shown sexual images or notes, or exposure to body parts.
A more updated study done in 2022 saw that these numbers only increased, with over 11 percent of students reporting sexual misconduct by teachers:
Academic teachers most often perpetrated the abuse (63%), followed by coaches and gym teachers (20%). Educators who engaged in sexual misconduct were primarily male (85%), whereas students who reported experiencing educator misconduct were primarily female (72%). Rates of disclosure to authorities were very low (4%) and some sexual grooming behaviors like gift giving (12%) and showing special attention (29%) were reported.
Again, these are wildly underreported numbers, as indicated by the studies, and while males are typically the culprit, it's highly likely that far more female perpetrators are assaulting students, and we never hear about it due to said underreporting and the added issue of males being the largest under-reporting group.
One can only guess how many of these sexual assaults are happening in the shadows, but if the numbers are correct, what we see prosecuted is the tip of the iceberg.
TOO MANY CREEPS IN OUR SCHOOLS
— CaptainCommonSense (@ZentrellWhite) April 18, 2025
This is why I homeschool!! pic.twitter.com/yHZzeuk5xm
As was pointed out in the South Park episode, the majority of responses to hearing boys were having sexual encounters with these teachers was to congratulate the male student.
But studies have shown that the psychological effect it has on minors, including male minors, is detrimental as reported from the National Library of Medicine, yet due to a lack of serious research into the effects of sexual assault on men, information is still lacking:
A sexual act that is conducted or attempted against a person who is unable to consent or refuse by another without the victim’s free consent is known as sexual victimization. Men are generally seen to be as less affected by sexual victimization. Yet, there is evidence to support the idea that sexual victimization affects male victims mentally just as much as it does female victims and may even be linked to worse results
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Although the female victims of sexual assaults have garnered a great deal of necessary attention, the body of literature examining men as victims of sexual violence is lacking. Consequently, what is known about adult male sexual victimization (AMSV) is dwarfed by the knowledgebase on female victimization. It is estimated that the help and support for male victims is over 20 years behind that of female victims.
As Fox News reported in 2022, 350 K-12 educators were arrested on sex crimes, 75 percent of which involved students. This includes "290 teachers, 26 substitute teachers and 25 teachers’ aides spanning nearly every state in the country."
This is an epidemic that's not being discussed enough. We often talk about woke indoctrination of our children, but as of right now, the most mainstream attention the out-of-control sexual assaults on our children is getting is from a show on Comedy Central, and that episode isn't exactly new.
The consequences for educators sexually assaulting students not only need to be far greater, it needs to be equal across the board. No matter how "willing" the student seemed to be during the act, it's still a minor, and it's still rape.
