Linda,
I mostly agree with you about how much the sexual harassment that occurs
in schools happens when adults ARE present, but not all of it in Hostile
Hallways did happen in adult presence, nor is that the case in other
studies in in the situations that have come to my attention. There are
some instances in the locker room, in bathrooms, on field trips and
athletics events away in which there are no adult bystanders. In those
situations, it would seem best that schools always have another adult
around. The more troubling is, as you say, when there are other adults
around, but they do nothing.
For people interested in pursuing this further, the Seventeen Study
published under the title Secrets in Public (available from the
Wellesley Center for Research on Women) has a table of events in
private, events in public, broken down by place in the school. In every
category of place, there's more public than private harassment (i.e. no
one else present), but they had reports of private harassment in
classrooms, halls, parking lots, away from school activities and other
places.
Linda Purrington wrote:
> Hello. My name is Linda Purrington. With Louise Brawdy, I formed Parents > for
Title IX,and recently I started Title IX Advocates to reach out to a wider
segment of the public...
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