Scarborough Country's "Real Deal" is really wrong.

What do these women all have in common (and no they aren't all stalking me).
Pamela Turner, 27 from Tennessee
Sarah Bench-Salorio, 28 from California
Katherine Tew, 30 from North Carolina

Kathy White, 39 from Texas
Well maybe they are stalking me but i doubt it, I'm probably bit to old for them.
If you answered they're all being charged for having sex with their students then you're tonight's lucky winner (of what I haven't figured out yet).
On Tuesday February 8th’s episode of Scarborough Country, Joe Scarborough Points out the growing problem of sex abuse by female teachers in public schools. The transcript of the show is below:

Your children are in danger at school, and nobody is doing anything about it.
It’s time for tonight’s “Real Deal.�
Now, yesterday, the police busted a female teacher in Tennessee for having an ongoing sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy. Pamela Turner was booked on 15 counts of sexual battery and 13 counts of rape.
And last week, I gave you the shocking stats from a recent federal study that suggested almost 10 percent of children attending public schools are sexually abused by their teachers or instructors. You know, we are deluged daily with images of defrocked priests who use their position of power to abuse children, but rarely do we get more than a fleeting glance of the almost daily procession of young female teachers who seduce young middle school boys or high school boys. And the size and the scope of the sexual abuse in American’s public schools dwarfs the Catholic priest scandal. But the press either buries the stories or they fail to connect the dots.
Now, why is that? Well, first of all, as you know, attacking religious figures has long been a pastime of the mainstream media. So when beasts that are in clerics’ uniforms get in trouble, it plays right into the media’s bias against faith. But, secondly, and I think more troubling, the teachers union remains one of the most powerful unions in America.
And their refusal to face up to the subterranean scandal proves once again that too many union bosses are more interested in protecting teachers’ jobs than making sure your children are safe. And as one major figure in teachers unions once said, when asked if he would ever put students’ needs above the teachers, the response was, sure I will, when kids start paying dues.
Well, it’s time to make unions and their offending teachers start paying their dues. Magnify the Catholic priest scandal by 100 and maybe then you can understand just how massive this problem is. It is time for parents to wake up and tell the school board members enough is enough. And while they are at it, they can tell their state reps and senators it’s time to toughen up laws involving sexual abuse in public schools.
We pay for those schools, and we ought to be assured that our children are safe when we drop them off in the morning. There is an epidemic, but nobody is taking notice. It’s endangering our kids, and it’s tonight’s “Real Deal.�

There are a couple of problems with Joe’s diatribe. The biggest is the statistic that 10 percent of all children who attend public school are sexually abused by their teachers. I’m having a hard time believing that number and would like to see the basis of his research, which he doesn’t site or publish anywhere I can find. I’ve had enough statistics classes to know that by adjusting focus group sizes and other control variables you can make statistics say just about anything you want too. By the way did you know that 86.5 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot?
To often teachers are blamed for the short comings of the American educational system, and for all of the underpaid, overworked teachers in America to be grouped with a few perverts is not fair.
I have found research that shows about 13 of every 1000 children in America are abused of those 13 children, 10 percent of them are abused sexually. Last time I checked 0.13 percent(13 / 1000 * 10%) was a far cry from 10 percent.
I searched MSNBC, Fox News, Google and Yahoo for teachers that had sexually abused their students and in the past couple of weeks only the four teachers above were recently charged, not convicted charged. Four teachers don’t make an epidemic even if they were all from the state of Tennessee 4 out of the 67,379 Employed that doesn’t reach epidemic proportions.
Common sense should have come into play when Mr. Scarborough was reading the statistics he was about to give out 10 percent, 1 in ten 10 kids, are abused by their teachers. Think about it for a second, say the average class size is 30 kids, that’s 3 kids per class. There just isn't any way possible it could be kept as quiet as it has.
I really think the ladies mentioned above, if guilty, are isolated incidents. I do not see how it would be possible to keep 10 percent of school age children quiet about being sexually abused.
It appears to me that Mr. Scarborough is going for shock value at the expense of America’s teachers, way to go Joe.
Mr. Scarborough now ranks right up there with Dan Rather & Eason Jordan in his fact checking abilities.
No wonder the blogs are fast becoming a preferred method of news; blogs site their references and in most cases apply common sense.