Perhaps you could actually articulate your position so I understand better. I have asked you three times now why this shouldn't be discussed and you just will not directly answer.
I've given my views - about the thread positioning and about the travesty of abuse of minor children and adolescents - over and over.
And when your starting point is, "explain why you think x," when x is not what I think, it is not possible to explain (bc it doesn't exist).
Even though all child predators are overrepresented in schools vs general population, (no surprise there), the females are super disproportionately represented in schools
You misstate your proffered statistics.
First source:
I note first that the NIH paper refers to all sexual misconduct, not crimes so not quite on topic, but whatever (see my note below on this before going hair on fire). But onward: In the US, women comprise 77% of K-12 teachers and 56% of principals. Yes, there are maintenance people, likely mostly male, but they're probably offset by lunch ladies. Per the NIH paper, despite holding the supermajority of school positions (not the 50-50 general population representation), women were pegged for 15% of sexual misconduct. Please explain how that makes women "super disproportionately represented." That shows vast under-representation, not overrepresentation. Call it generously 70-30 women to men. 70% commit 15% of the sexual misconduct; 30% commit 85% of it. Who is disproportionately committing sexual misconduct now?
And to be clear (from your citation, emphasis added):
Educators who engaged in sexual misconduct were primarily male (85%), whereas students who reported experiencing educator misconduct were primarily female (72%). Rates of disclosure to authorities were very low (4%) and some sexual grooming behaviors like gift giving (12%) and showing special attention (29%) were reported.
Next:
Canadian estimate: 25% female in cases in which there is a single victim, and 5-25% across all subsets. 86% of all of them were teachers
And 95% of all multiple victim cases were by male offenders. Overall, 87% male offenders.
76% of all student victims were female.
Also: this Canadian report included public and private schools, not just public, which was what you asserted you were providing evidence for. 67% public, 26% Catholic/Christian, 7% non-religious private, rest other.
Third source, referencing Carol Shakeshaft's literature review from 2004:
Shakeshaft study (2004) that suggested it was 43% female in school settings
Did you read the Shakeshaft study? It was a survey of the literature, and along with the one suggesting 42.8% female committers of sexual misconduct (not just crimes, again - to be specific and on topic, not to dismiss sexual behavior that is wrong but does not rise to the level of a crime; both can be damaging, don't get it twisted, but apples to apples is closer to ideal), the other cited studies showed a vast range: 43%, 15%, 4%, 20%, 4%, 12.7%, and 4%. So stating "43%" is disingenuous and misleading.
Shakeshaft further stated (literally right after the table showing the above):
Researchers who study child sexual abuse report a “monopoly” by male abusers (Freel, 2003). Finkelhor (1986), in a review reports, 90 to 98 percent of females and 18 to 86 percent of males are sexually abused by a male. Analysts speculate that female abusers might be underreported if the target is male, because males have been socialized to believe they should be flattered or appreciative of sexual interest from a female. On the other hand, it is hypothesized that males might also underreport sexual abuse by another male, because of the social stigma of same-sex sex. The issue of male underreporting has more relevance to the number of males that are sexually abused than to the sex of the abuser.
Here's a more recent update on the Shakeshaft review,
from 2022:
Academic teachers most often perpetrated the abuse (63%), followed by coaches and gym teachers (20%). Educators who engaged in sexual misconduct were primarily male (85%), whereas students who reported experiencing educator misconduct were primarily female (72%). Rates of disclosure to authorities were very low (4%) and some sexual grooming behaviors like gift giving (12%) and showing special attention (29%) were reported.
Again, yes, 15% is higher than 10%, but that's 70% of a population committing 15% of the misconduct, and maybe 30% committing 85% of it.
Not sure what you were trying to prove here.
There's a quantitative view and a qualitative one:
Quantitatively, men - including male employees in schools - commit the over-over-overwhelming and extremely disproportionate amount of sexual crimes and misconduct against children and adolescents, the supermajority of which are female children and adolescents.
Qualitatively, every act of sexual abuse or sexual misconduct against a child is wrong.
If one's interest is in quantities, the focus should be clear. If one's interest is in qualities, then volume doesn't matter, so citing volumes is irrelevant.