The New York Times Learning Network helps us to wade through this difficult subject.
By Katherine Schulten and Holly Epstein Ojalvo
Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press
Are you talking about the Penn State news this week in your classroom or at home with your children? Let us know how you’re handling it. Here are some ideas for discussion, writing or further research.
A good place to start to quickly understand the story and its implications is the Times Topics page, Penn State (Sex Abuse Scandal 2011), which features a short overview of the events, along with links to all articles, opinion pieces and multimedia on the topic.
The overview, as currently posted (it may change as events develop) ends with this paragraph:
Law enforcement officials have said that Paterno had met his legal obligation in alerting his superiors at the university when he learned of the allegation against Sandusky, but they suggested he might well have failed a moral test for what to do when confronted with such a disturbing allegation involving a child not even in his teens. No one at the university alerted the police or pursued the matter to determine the well-being of the child involved.
The rest of this helpful article can be found here.
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