For
so many years, when schools learned that teachers were sexually abusing
students, the strategy was to keep it quiet. Handle it in-house. Make
it go away.
On
Thursday, Choate Rosemary Hall, an elite boarding school in
Connecticut, turned that method on its head. At 4:30 p.m., nearly 14,000
members of the Choate community, including alumni, parents and faculty,
received an email with a sterile title, “Message to the Choate Rosemary
Hall Community,” and a link to a searing report describing decades of
sexual abuse at the school.