Who can be guilty of sexual harassment?
A school employee, another student, a volunteer or even someone visiting the school.
What if sexual harassment happens away from school like at a game or on a field trip??
The law protects students from sexual harassment in all of a school's programs or activities-at school, on a school bus, at a class or at a program sponsored by the school at another location.
What do schools have to do to prevent or stop sexual harassment?
Whenever harassment occurs, a school must take immediate steps to stop it and prevent it from happening again. Harassing behavior, if ignored or not reported, is likely to continue and become worse, rather than go away.
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Sexual harassment may cause a student to have trouble learning, drop a class or drop out of school altogether, lose trust in school, become isolated, fear for personal safety or lose self-esteem.
Under federal law, schools must have a policy against sex discrimination and notify employees, students, and parents of policy.
That lets everyone know that sexual harassment will not be tolerated.
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