sexual harassment in education

Students learn to recognize sexual harassment and how to stop it. They are offered concrete suggestions and given details of their rights under Title IX. Video reenactments focus on the victims of harassment and illustrate how harassment can take many forms, including physical touching and groping, verbal jokes and rumors, gay bashing, and hurtful text and online messages. Real students vividly describe the emotional consequences of being harassed and counteract the perception among many students that harassment is just a joke and no big thing.

Isabelle Goodrow, horrified and enraged when she discovers her teenage daughter Amy is involved with a math teacher at the high school, comes to realize that her outrage is mostly the result of the secret she has been keeping for most of Amy's life.

Uses real-life examples to illustrate how to handle unwanted touching, verbal abuse, physical violence, and other potentially dangerous situations at school.

Describes sexual harassment in school and at work, explains the relationship of harassment to sex discrimination, and explores methods of preventing gender bias and harassment.

Provides parents, teachers, school officials, and others with a framework comparing and contrasting sexual harassment and bullying as they relate to the behavior, laws, and impact on children; and describes the responsibility of the school district and how parents and other adults can navigate the schools' policies, barriers, and responsibilities.

Discusses scenarios of peer-to-peer sexual harassment amongst students, and provides possible solutions and prevention methods for educators and administrators; and also covers liability issues.

Examines the law as it pertains to issues of bullying, harassment, or threats in the school setting, looking at how courts have handled lawsuits against school districts and personnel charged with tolerating or supporting bullying, and offering recommendations on what steps to take to prevent and deal with the problem at school.

Describes sexual harassment of teens by other teens and gives information on how to get help if one is being harrassed.

Defines sexual harassment, discusses who is guilty and what characterises the victim, and examines the consequences and what can be done about the situation.