Sexual Assaults in K-12 Schools Shockingly Common

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Sexual Assaults in K-12 Schools Shockingly Common

{A} series of investigative reports from the Associated Press has revealed a shocking amount of sexual assaults in public elementary and secondary schools nationwide. The AP found around 17,000 official reports of sex assaults by students in just a four-year period.

The AP scoured state education records and federal crime data and their tally only included the most severe forms of sexual assault: rape, sodomy, object penetration, and unwanted fondling. While the latter was the most common form of sexual assault, the AP found almost one in five victims of assault were raped, sodomized, or penetrated with an object. ...

While parents think of schools as academic sanctuaries where their kids will be safe, the AP found K-12 campuses are the second-most likely place juveniles will be sexually violated by their peers. "Schools are required to keep students safe," Virginia Commonwealth University professor Charol Shakeshaft told the AP. "It is part of their mission. It is part of their legal responsibility. It isn't happening. Why don't we know more about it, and why isn't it being stopped?"

According to the AP, schools often mischaracterized sexual assaults, including rape and sodomy, as bullying, hazing, or even consensual behavior. The report also revealed that assaults occurred anywhere students were left unsupervised -- from buses and bathrooms to hallways and locker rooms -- and that sexual violence was present in all types of schools . . . .

[heydaralon]

Welp, thats horrifying.

[Okeefenokee]

Mac is on suicide watch.

[heydaralon]

Mac is on suicide watch.

who is mac?

[Fife]

Well, at least it's a good thing that parents can opt out of schools that fuck (literally as well as figuratively) their children.

Oh, wayment....

[Okeefenokee]

Mac is on suicide watch.

who is mac?

[heydaralon]

Mac is on suicide watch.

who is mac?

The McPoyles are my favorite people on that show. Also Frank and Charlie.