Thursday, January 25, 2018

#MeTooK12 Is Giving a Much-Needed Voice to Young Victims of Sexual Harassment and Assault | Babble #MeToo #TimesUp

#MeTooK12 Is Giving a Much-Needed Voice to Young Victims of Sexual Harassment and Assault | Babble:

#METOOK12 IS GIVING A MUCH-NEEDED VOICE TO YOUNG VICTIMS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT

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“I’ve signed your death warrant,” Judge Aquilina said to former Olympic U.S. Gymnastics team doctor, Larry Nassar, when she sentenced him today to 175 years in prison for sexual abusing an astounding number of minors that were under his care. “I find that you don’t get it; that you’re a danger. That you remain a danger,” Aquilina said. She added, “I wouldn’t send my dogs out to you, sir.”
With more than 150 women and girls testifying in court about the abuse they suffered at the hands of Nassar, our nation has been left reeling at how so many children could have been abused without anyone knowing.
It’s clear that we have a problem. Yet when the hashtag #MeTooK12 started circulating the internet a few weeks ago — a spinoff of the #MeToo tag that dominated the internet last year — even I was caught off guard at how much sexual abuse is occurring in our school systems. It’s a dirty little secret permeating grades K-12 that we don’t seem to talk much about.
Esther Warkov and Joel Levin, though, are talking about it. After their high school-aged daughter was assaulted on an overnight field trip in 2012, they co-founded the nonprofit Stop Sexual Assault In Schools to raise awareness of students’ rights under Title IX — a civil rights law which states that no person in the U.S., based on sex, shall be subjected to discrimination under an educational program.
However, Levin tells Babble: “Although our message received some attention, it wasn’t being #MeTooK12 Is Giving a Much-Needed Voice to Young Victims of Sexual Harassment and Assault | Babble:

Sexual Harassment: Not In Our School #MeTooK12 #MeToo #TimesUp

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Stop Sexual Assault in Schools

Educating students, families, and schools about the right to an equal education free from sexual harassment


Click Here To Go To The #MeTooK12 Campaign On FaceBook


Click Here To Go To The #MeTooK12 Campaign On FaceBook

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