Ohio Schools Struggle With Educating Sex Offenders

DAYTON, Ohio—Ohio school districts are working to balance the rights of juvenile sex offenders to get a public education with the safety of other students and staff.  Scott Blake, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Education, says districts have to be careful about pulling out or segregating students regardless of the reason.  Springboro schools in southwest Ohio is tutoring an 18-year-old student at home in part because of the violence of the student’s crimes, which were committed several years ago.  In Dayton, registered juvenile sex offenders begin at an alternative school, then join the regular student body at schools around the city.  The Ohio Department of Youth Services released 81 sex offenders under the age of 18 in the past year.

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