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- From: barnhart@ddsw1.mcs.com (Mr. Aaron Barnhart)
- Subject: Re: Preventing Sexual Harassment?
- Message-ID: <BxCyuL.nr@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:18:19 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov4.235558.7145@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Nov5.111253.29392@ms.uky.edu> <Bx95st.AM1@portal.hq.videocart.com>
- Organization: Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
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- This is in reply to kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger), who wrote:
- :I was a victim of several raucous students in my primary and early secondary
- :school years. The school was NOT interested in suspending or expelling these
- :students who were the instigators of these offenses. They quite frankly did
- :not care. The staff and faculty was certainly aware of the problem -- but
- :they just decided not to act -- despite repeated complaints on my part.
- :
- :If I had been an adult these "kids" would have been brought up on assault
- :and battery charges, and in some cases aggrevated battery. Some of them would
- :have undoubtably done time in jail. But since they were "kids" this didn't
- :happen -- NOR WERE THEY STOPPED.
- :
-
- I might add that right now as it currently stands, the usenet is made
- up of a lot of well-educated, often technically-minded people .. just
- the kinds of folx whose school experiences resound with the recurring
- theme of being square pegs jammed into round holes.
-
- It sure seems as though even 20 short years has done a lot to change
- schools -- of course, in those two decades I migrated from small-town
- Montana to progressive Evanston.
-
- But I can still remember what my classmates did to me and other misfits,
- and with one or two exceptions the countenancing of those actions by
- our so-called guardians in the school system.
-
- I'm not sure legal recourse is always the best, and in fact I would
- encourage parental involvement, responsibility, and reconciliation
- wherever possible. But don't start rattling off kids' lawsuits as
- proof positive we are a litigation-crazy society. That misses the
- point that the suit is often trying to make -- somebody, please, take
- notice and take responsibility.
-
- Aaron
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