Dr. Shakeshaft featured in The Washington Post
The VCU School of Education’s Charol Shakeshaft, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, is featured in an article in the April 5, 2022 issue of The Washington Post on the debate over what and how children should learn about sexual orientation and gender identity.
The article – “Teachers who mention sexuality are ‘grooming’ kids, conservatives say” – includes the following quote from Dr. Shakeshaft.
“Children who have learned that teachers or school personnel aren’t supposed to do certain things … are much more likely to go to an adult to report it,” said Shakeshaft, who has studied educator sex abuse for more than three decades. The article reports that Shakeshaft has studied hundreds of cases of teacher sex abuse and has not found any in which an educator groomed a student — much less a classroom full of them — under the guise of teaching them sex education.
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Read the article featuring Shakeshaft.