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EDUCATION EXPERT BLOG: EDUCATION LAW AND SCHOOL LIABILITY ISSUES

Child/Student Supervision, Harassment, Harassment/Bullying, School Management, Sexual Harassment, Student Rights, Title IX
April 11, 2013

An elementary school principal claimed that a first grader violated the school’s sexual harassment policy. The boy’s crime? He was sitting behind a female classmate on the floor and put his fingers inside the waistband of her pants and touched her skin. He was accused of sexually harassing a classmate...

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Child/Student Supervision, Education Expert, Harassment, Personal Injury, School Negligence Lawsuit, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Student Rights, Title IX
March 7, 2013

Wherever there are public and private schools and organizations that provide activities for children, there are stories about school sexual harassment and abuse. In West Virginia, a fifth-grade teacher started a “sex club” with some of her students. She brought them to her home to “teach” them, by demonstration, about...

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Child/Student Supervision, Education Expert, Personal Injury, Sexual Harassment, Student Rights
October 9, 2012

Former Penn State Assistant Football Coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced this week to 30 to 60 years in prison. The sentence essentially guaranteed that the 68-year-old Sandusky would die in prison.   Sandusky, the jury determined, had abused 10 boys — all of them from disadvantaged homes. Sandusky used his connections to...

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