But the number of reports of female educators charged with sex abuse of students is rising - not necessarily because there are more women abusing children, but because they’re getting caught, some experts say. Male abusers outnumber female, the study said. Nationwide, about 10 percent of all students experience sexual misconduct by a school employee sometime between kindergarten and the time they graduate from high school, according to a 2017 study funded by the U.S.
Some have downplayed or even laughed off the seriousness of female educators having sex with teenage students, playing into the trope of hormone-driven boys lusting after the women at the front of the class.īut many prosecutors and people who work with the abused say female teachers having sex with male students are doing just as much harm as their male counterparts who prey on girls.
