There was inappropriate behavior by numerous teachers at our former Waldorf school. Another bizarre thing happened on the same camping trip during which the male teacher inappropriately touched my daughter and a couple of other girls and physically hurt another girl who was afraid to cross a stream. Because the students were on land belonging to Native Americans, it was considered sacred. Everyone had to do their business in the woods but had to carry their soiled toilet paper and feminine hygiene products back to the garbage container at the camp. (I imagine that could have been quite embarrassing for 15-year-old girls with a whole lot of boys present.)
At one point, someone found some of these items strewn around in the woods. Supposedly, at least one of the three teachers (two women and the misbehaving man) went ballistic. Along with exclamations of horror over the defiling of the land, threats of expulsion and ridiculous claims that DNA testing would be done, demands were made for the culprit or culprits to step forward. Not surprisingly, no one did.
Later, however, two girls went to the teachers and named two other girls they claimed had done it. One of the tattletales was a teacher's pet who had a reputation for being a girl who made up stories about other children doing bad things; the other was a girl who was probably upset because one of the accused was her close friend but was spending a lot of time with a new friend.
In any case, in spite of the denials by the accused girls, the teachers took the tattletales' word for it and made the accused girls clean up some of the soiled items without using universal precautions--the standard precautions of wearing protective items such as latex gloves when coming into contact with other people's bodily fluids. As anyone with an iota of common sense knows, contact with other people's bodily fluids exposes one to the risk of infection with a variety of diseases, some deadly. Everyone who supervises groups of minor children on camping trips is supposed to know universal precautions and they are a part of standard first aid training that they are supposed to have taken.
The teachers brought the feminine products, stained with menstrual blood, back to school for their investigation. They laid them out on a desk in the classroom. During recess, the girls who had been menstruating during the camping trip had to come in to look at them and say whether or not they were theirs. (Luckily for our daughter, she had not had her period during the trip.)
The mother of one of the accused girls told me about a meeting she had afterwards with the two female teachers. They were still accusing her daughter of having defiled the Native American land. The mother told me she caught one of the teachers in a lie about the color of the displayed sanitary pads and the color of the brand that her daughter used.
One of the things that struck me about this incident, aside from what I think about the psychological dysfunction of teachers who lay soiled feminine products on a desk in a classroom, was the lack of balance between the reverence shown by the teachers toward a patch of earth and twigs and leaves, and the vitriol directed at children in their care.