when i was in 8th grade this one football player grabbed my ass when i was walking into the lunch room and then on the way out for a fire drill he grabbed my boobs. I kneed him in the balls and he was on the ground crying. i was the one who got in trouble but when i told them what happened they decided to drop the situation because you what to know why? he was a fucking quarterback on the football team and the school cares too much about sports than the kids. but they didn't know who my dad was apparently. he raised hell not only at the school but at the district. they offered that he gets 2 days of OSS (just in time for their next game) but i wasn't satistfied until he was kicked off the team and got 10 days of OSS. it was either that or i was pressing charges. SA is not something the school likes to get into because it may get their hands dirty. fuck them.
A similar situation happened to me. There was a group of boys that were using the class period in p. e where we were outside near the field to grope a bunch of girls they found attractive. It made me uncomfortable but i didn’t tell anyone. Only my bestfriend knew what happened since she was walking with me when it happened
thats messed up
True, I never heard about it until I started working, career world they talk about it between customers and co-workers but never once heard about it in school growing up.
Like most women, I can say going to school dances or clubs as adults results in constant groping in crowds. Often no clue who actually did it, cause people do it when there is dozens around and do it so fast in dark places with flashing lights.
Learning early about consent and being taught that in school would be a great start.
Exactly. I don’t know why so many people don’t get it ^^ thank you
You know this is such a good question on every different type of level the format that they follow is a format that I think they started with back in the thirties or forties we need to change it up a little bit because everything in this world is changed I mean I believe in having all the requirements in history and science and math in English but there has to be a new way there has to be a smarter way and not only teach School subjects but teach things like cause and effect that is something that every school kid should know it would change their lives if they understood cause and effect
Well it technically is just in a stupid way. Probably because of the politics. Schools only talk about politics if it fits there certain political agenda. They both coddle enable and also shame sexual harrasment. But they let certain kids get off with it, and other kids get away with it.
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What's Your Opinion? Sign Up Now!A lot of conservative states don't want sex ed to even be taught at schools including puberty talks so getting them to agree to sexual harassment courses is going to be even harder. Personally I think they should absolutely be taught for those who don't feel like they can approach their parents and, for those who do, they can ask their parents for advice on what they were taught.
The problem is, who is deciding what and how it is taught? Some schools will take it seriously while others will task some poor PE or Health coach with the task who has no idea how to really approach it. Some places will provide a really restricted approach while others can have very frank conversations.
My concern is for those who push back against the idea of it being taught. Usually it isn't for the kids being exposed to it, it's just those who think it's some sort of "woke" thing not to accept sexual harassment in this day and age.
Leave schools out of this, they mess with our children enough. Your literally asking why we do not socially engineer our children to preserve harassment every were they look, and create an entire generation of victim advocates... when we all need to toughen up and grow a pair.
You clearly don’t know what sexual harassment is because I never said that. You’re just putting words in my mouth.
Me saying young people shouldn’t have to fear being sexually harassed or assaulted at a place that’s supposed to be a safe learning environment.
Nearly half of students in grades 7–12 report facing sexual harassment
and only 20% ever report to authorities
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Yeah I think I get it... so obviously we disagree on ideological level. No worries though
I couldn't agree with you more! So many things that should be taught early in school that is avoided boggles my mind!
I never understand the so called sex education anyway, I mean instinct tells you what to do, and if they are going to talk about it then do the whole thing,
they need to explain why people do this or that,
It is at my daughters school it’s part of drama.
rather than have specific lessons on various things.
they do an initial overview within form and then cover them in Drama,
They have covered off some fairly emotive subjects from Sexual harrassment, rape, Consent (aparently the person who wrote that one out is really modest).
Because 1) it's not a real thing. And 2) it's not appropriate for minors.
It’s terrifying you’re 35 and believe sexual harassment isn’t a real thing.. men are seriously this ignorant
and that’s a stupid response. If a 13 year old boy is “grown enough” to be inappropriately groping a female than that same boy is old enough to be taught what sexual harassment is
I meant what women nowadays refer to as "sexual harassment," like a man saying she looks pretty or making eye contact with her or her body. Obviously it's not right to touch someone without their permission, but that's extremely rare and not appropriate for minors to learn about in school, like I said. And if you want to play the age card, I could easily dismiss everything you're saying for being a naive and ignorant teenager who's never been out in the real world and likely never paid their own bills before either, but I have a feeling you wouldn't like me dismissing everything you say as idiotic based purely on your age, would you? So how about we don't?
Since I am unaware as to how can you teach children about this, i would like to ask you a counter question:
Imagine you are a teacher teaching kids of ages >= 14 and <= 18. What kind of lecture/explanation will you give them?
It should be teached but like it's something I learned early on from my mom and aunt and all that
That's concerning.
It was taught about in my school.
We had mandatory health class and we had to learn about sexual harassment, assault, abuse, and rape.
They were really strict.
Well some places do teach about it, also parents should be talking to their kids about where its not ok to touch others from a young age, and many do.
You’re overestimating parents. Most don’t have conversations about this just like me
It depends where u are from I learnt about it in school was part of our sex ed
You just need to talk to people more, kiddo. Instead of burying yourself in the library
I thought they were teaching that in schools. They should be.
They risk losing funding from students leaving and parents suing, if it comes to light that not only is the safe vert unsafe for students, but students were actually hurt.
There have been cases where my school has literally ignored cases of bullying, SA, and rape. All because they know if they reported it and gave the person the help they needed it’s bad for the schools reputation :/ schools are very corrupt
Agreed. We've had similar issues. Hopefully those sacks of shit get flayed with a rusted spoon, or those girls get some sort of peace or justice
A school that doesn't teach this and sex ed for me is a bad school.
They're too bust brainwashing, I MEAN, TEACHING CRT.
I'm a little bit surprised that more schools don't talk about it... I know my school did. This is purely a guess, but maybe the reason is that a certain amount of the anti-sexual harassment stuff is seemingly obvious "be a decent person to the people around you" type stuff.
How did your school taught this?
Why is God not taught about in schools?
Ever heard of Christian schools?
I was referring to public schools. Seems as though it's OK to talk about any religion, though.
Because it’s against freedom of religion
i think it's actually a good idea not to talk about that. i mean if adults tell children what's bad to do, they will do exactly that. that's the same that happened with the "don't do drugs" campaign. children did more drugs than every generation before.
I think it was the execution that was flawed and that’s why it failed. Not the premise
maybe. but i do think that if you talk about this, you give children ideas. they will do bad things like slapping girls asses, cause they think it's funny, cause they just learned this is bad and bad things are funny to children. so i think this will actually create more problems while not really solving any problems. do you think it will solve a problem? if yes, what problem and how? i'm not close minded. i'm open to your ideas.
I agree with @genericname85 Also there isn't a way to talk about specific sexual acts that doesn't also demonize the act itself, when really the only reason it's harrassment is the lack of consent, and typically people prefer to keep it private who they will or won't consent to, it's not a topic you add to some kind of weird show and tell. If a person does the same things to their highdchool or college sweetheart, who wants them to, then it's not harrassment. So how would you even warn people? What would you say in class that wouldn't simply amount to hating on affection itself, besides "No means no"?
it was talked about at my school. it was in my highschools health class
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