K-12 schools are accused in hundreds of lawsuits of mishandling sexual assault cases. Will new Title IX regulations help?
For months, her attacker’s friends tormented her. They called her a “crazy bitch” and a “porn star” on social media. One suggested that they show her “what rape actually is,” according to a lawsuit the Colorado student filed this year against her school district.
Doe and her parents told administrators multiple times about the harassment — including that one of Smith’s friends threatened to strangle her — but the school did nothing to stop it, according to the civil complaint. Frustrated, Doe’s parents met with administrators in March 2018. When they emailed the next day to ask what steps the school had taken to protect Doe from harassment, according to the suit, an assistant principal wrote back, “the school has taken no actions.
Doe’s complaint is one of at least 330 suits filed across the United States since the beginning of 2018 alleging that K-12 public and charter schools failed to protect students from sexual assault and harassment or mishandled incidents that came to light, according to an NBC News count based on court records.
The Georgia and the Michigan lawsuits are still pending; the Texas lawsuit was dismissed after a judgeIn recent years, colleges have faced intense public scrutiny around how they handle students’ reports of sexual violence, leading the Department of Education tothis month that create new standards for how schools must respond under the gender equity law Title IX.
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