you asked "why does oholei torah stubbornly refuse to fire the abusive teacher in question" like you yourself wrote "in question" something in question from over twenty years ago should get fired now?
You asked "any insight would be appreciated" and you call me a troller? With all due respect, you sound like someone who doesn't really want an answer rather someone with whom you can share your anger over them not firing, which apparently your not getting so maybe you should go troll somewhere else!!!!
Not quite sure why I am bothering to respond to this, but heck, why not knock some sense into you.
I stated in the original post as a
fact that there is an abusive teacher in the school. To be polite and to keep it simple, I backed up this fact with the Newsweek article, rather than to state that I have personally witnessed this man abuse children.
I then proceeded to ask if anyone can provide insight as to why this teacher who has abused children as recently as 2013, is still teaching in that school. Has he blackmailed the school? Is the school afraid of him?
I most certainly did
not ask if anyone can corroborate or dispute the facts in the Newsweek article.
Coming along and stating that you "don't believe that he was abusive", or that "what he did was not abuse at the time" is not answering my question, but merely trolling and stating that the question is not a question altogether. Furthermore, coming along and stating that "you don't believe" that which I know as a fact, has no place in this discussion.
With all do respect a name of a "victim" doesn't help me believe it so i don't care to know it, what would help would be the names of those in the classroom who witnessed it. I would put down money that something like this happened, "mendy said something chutzpahdik for the the forth time in two days so rabbi... got fed up (maybe even angry) and told him to pull down his pants (which no sane kid would do - yes even a little child back then would never do that in front of his friends) and without the kid actually pulling down his pants rabbi... slapped him probably more then once".
Who asked you to state what you believe? I have stated this as a fact. You are welcome to ask me to back it up, but by all means, don't attempt to insult my intelligence because you "don't believe".
Without anyone that was there to say it happened otherwise that is what I choose to believe, your entitled to believe otherwise but I can't wonder why someone wasn't fired until i know 100 percent what actually happened.
(We all know how we oholei torahniks can take a story and without technically lying are be able to twist a story to what ever we want (for example start up with a kid and somehow he was the one sent home...) these stories happened every day, and to all of a sudden belive this one story that "could of happened" is something I'm not willing to do unless I hear from two witnesses that were there).
See above. Who the heck cares what you "think"?