Rape in private school - 170 testimonies

It's grim, isn't it. I don't suppose it's just private schools either.

Pressed return too early!

One of the girls I used to look after gave me a shocking account of the low level, but continuous sexual harassment she experienced from the boys at her mixed Outstanding comprehensive school.

Parents would not be so desperate to get their children places there if they heard about the unwanted groping and "banter" that the girls have to fight off, with little help from the staff.

It's why my DD is at an all girl's school. One of the girls I used to look after gave me a shock

It's so depressing, makes me almost wish I'd only had boys.

I would like my DD to go to the same school as her brother, but we have an excellent girls secondary near us and I keep wondering if that would be a better option.

I worry so much for my dds. I went to an all girls school and loved it. There an no all girls schools round my way anymore. They have all become mixed.

Now let's ask ourselves why increasing numbers of girls are desperate not to acknowledge their female bodies, and will do anything to become perceived as boys.

This is very sad. I'm
Going to to ask my dd what level
Of harassment she gets at school mixed state comp

I'm hopeful it's not that awful for her tho as I asked her if she had ever been sexually harassed when Sarah Everett was killed and she said she was kerb crawled by a 50 year old but that was all she mentioned.

Bad enough for her I know.

Those poor girls So let down by the adults supposed to be protecting them.

Actually I can well believe it. A good friend
Sent her boys to a highly regarded private school and she said nothing was ever done about disruptive behaviour as the kids parents involved were VERY liberal with their donations!!! I can see how this would all be covered up.

That thread is a shocker @Biscuitsanddoombar. Dismissed as a silly comment and that suspending him might ruin his school career. Reminds me of Brock Turner

I'm glad all these reports are coming out from the schools. Obviously it's horrific that all these girls have been victims of this unspeakable behaviour but schools are complicit.

And there is far too much of a belief (especially on MN) that an expensive private education is a dream. For many girls, it's a living nightmare.

I have a DD in Yr9. I'm unfortunately familiar with the tone of conversation at high school.
I've actually intervened more with high school than primary with regard to problems with other pupils. I really wish schools would take 'banter' more seriously.

There was a thread on AIBU yesterday about comments made in Y7 where a posters DD was told by a boy to “close your legs cos your Fanny stinks”

The response spoke volumes about how sexual harassment by boys is just hand waved away so I’m not remotely surprised that sexual assaults and rape are similarly minimised and pushed away.

I went to an all girls school and while of course there was bullying, there wasn’t sexual harassment/assault. When I was at uni I went to do some research at a mixed comp and was utterly shocked at the everyday low - high level sexual harassment and bullying of the girls. From casually calling them slags to lifting up their skirts with rulers to comments about the size of their breasts and that was just the stuff I was observing in a classroom during lessons. What was worse was the girls just shrugged it off, they said there was nothing that could be done and boys are just like that

That's truly grim. The schools have spectacularly failed those girls and what message did it give to the boys?