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Schools get federal guidelines on sexual violence
- 04-04-2011
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By Nirvi Shah/Education Week
After the gang rape last fall of a 14-year-old girl in the stairwell of a District of Columbia high school during the school day, a teacher wrote to a newspaper, horrified at how the situation was handled. It wasn’t handled at all, she said. At a staff meeting the Monday after the attack, she said, the school administration didn’t even bring it up. “After the meeting, I had to go up to my classroom and pretend that nothing happened,” second-year teacher Jessica Lilly wrote in an email to The Washington Post. “For the rest of the day, I attempted to teach how to write an equation of a line in slope-intercept form in between student conversations about the attack.” Now, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is looking into the way District of Columbia Public Schools addressed the situation, and it is using the power of Title IX, a law typically associated with gender equity. (more...)
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