Sexual Harassment: Method to the Madness??
by Anthony Sibley (AJ) on Jul 23, 2013 | Views: 169 | Score: 0
| It's just part of school life/it's no big deal | Thought it was funny | I was being stupid | Wanted to get back at the person for something done to me | I was angry about something else in my life | Thought they liked it | Friends pushed me into doing it | Wanted to date the person | |
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| Reasons Students Give for Sexual Harassing Other Students | 44 | 39 | 23 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
Percentage of Student Sexual Harassers
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Roughly half of all 7th-12th graders experience sexual harassment in a single year, with 80% experiencing it sometime in their school career. Harassment is even more stark for girls, 56%, in a single year. Most harassers feel their actions were "no big deal" or funny, revealing the extreme disconnect that they have with their effect on victims. School administrators should work to emphasize the long-term impact that such harassment has on students, in addition to punishing and condemning the action.