The stats about sexual abuse in the school system refers to staff only, and not to fellow students. 
And, as for teacher, they have as much if not more authority and/or influence on children than a priest will ever have, if for no other reason, because they spend much more time with them. So please, do not try to minimise the devastating effect that kind of abuse has on children. I understand that it is not the 'inn thing' to talk about the devastation of sexual abuse by teachers, but abuse is abuse. 

As of today, the department of education could not mandate a comprehensive nationwide survey, as the RCC did, because they could not agree on whose authority it is to mandate such survey. Cute ... isn't it? If this is not the worst kind of "burying" or cover-up, what is? 

Your attempt to overplay the "sacredness" of the clergy is self-contradictory. If you would really believe in the sacredness of church and clergy, you would know it is such because of God and despite human sinfulness.