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NEW YORK (AP) — It can be a malicious rumor whispered in the hallway, a lewd photo arriving by cell phone, hands groping where they shouldn't. Added up, it's an epidemic — student-on-student sexual harassment that is pervasive in America's middle schools and high schools.
During the 2010-11 school year, 48 percent of students in grades 7-12 experienced some form of sexual harassment in person or electronically via texting, email and social media, according to a major national survey being released Monday by the American Association of University Women.
The harassers often thought they were being funny, but the consequences for their targets can be wrenching, according to the survey. Nearly a third of the victims said the harassment made them feel sick to their stomach, affected their study habits or fueled reluctance to go to school at all.
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The reaction to this 'survey' is silly. What is the definition of sexual harassment? Do the kids even know? If I told someone that they were ugly and their mother dresses them funny that could possibly qualify.
What are the likelyhood that kids of that age will answer yes to questions on most any survey.
That people here note that this is a reason for changing anything is silly. Somehow each generation is stupid enough to assume that 'kids today' are crazy and things are completely different than when they went to school.
Thought they already have that in the form of some private schools are either all male or all female. Am I wrong?
Shouldn't that option be available for public school students too? Once again, couldn't a voucher system provide such a choice for students and their parents?
Well it's a horrible age to put so much power into their hands. So many teens have no filters on their brains yet. Socially and mentally we just haven't caught up with technology yet. It's not the cell phones fault, or the computers fault.
Shouldn't that option be available for public school students too? Once again, couldn't a voucher system provide such a choice for students and their parents?
It should be, but that also means more taxes for more schools, and since education funding is always being more and more cut, it would be more students per teacher, which does not help anything at all.
I'm largely ambivalent about this issue, and others like it. Things like this just hold no real meaning for me outside of a political context. It's nice to dream about a world where people "play nice" (speech-wise) with each other, but the threshold I adopt for social engineering that niceness through policy choices is exceedingly high.
I don't know what kids did many decades ago, but paint me skeptical if I don't jump on the assumption that kids today are somehow radically different than kids were fifty or a hundred years ago, insofar as the issue of teasing is concerned. Nor am I inclined to jump to the conclusion that it is technology that is leading them astray. At best, this new technology is simply a tool which lets the kids do what they probably always did, tease. That seems like a form over substance complaint, which I don't think is really important at all, since the mode and medium is less important than the qualitative nature of what they are doing (which is also why I can't justify removing the tools which facilitate these actions as a policy choice).
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