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Teens are facing sexual harassment and assault in middle and high schools (before sex ed), but how are they supposed to stop it if they can't even articulate what it is?
“Hey, guess what I’m doing right now?” The whisper was so quiet that only Anna* could hear him. She tensed up, knowing what was coming next. “I’ve got my dick in my hand and I’m just staring at you and jerking off and… ahhh… ahhhh!” Anna said nothing.

Anna had grown accustomed to this start to her day. As soon as she sat down for her 9 a.m. eighth-grade English class, the boy who sat behind her would begin taunting her. Sometimes he whispered sexual things in her ear and other times he pretended to jerk off (or maybe he actually did — Anna couldn’t see) while he quietly narrated his fantasies about her. When Anna told the boy to leave her alone, she says he made fun of her for not being able to “take a joke.” He also said she should take it as a compliment that she “got to be in the spank bank.”
The boy was slick when it came to this behavior, waiting until the teacher turned her back or stepped out of the room to interact with Anna. He was so subtle that other students hardly noticed or, if they did, they were likely too uncomfortable to say anything about it. While she had a hard time articulating what was happening between this boy and her, she did know that his behavior made her feel small and invisible. And she felt helpless trying to stop it.
At the time, Anna had no idea that this daily interaction had a name and that was “sexual harassment.” Sexual harassment is any unwanted touching or talking of a sexual nature, and it can happen in-person, on social media, or through private messages likes texts and DMs. Although the law doesn’t prohibit teasing or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile environment. And yes, it happens in middle school. Twenty-seven percent of middle school girls said they’d been physically or verbally sexually harassed, in a study done by the American Educational Research Association.
It was humiliating and everyone basically blamed me and abandoned me.
With sexual harassment occurring in middle school, victims find themselves grappling with harassment and assault issues before even stepping foot in a sex ed class (that is, if they even have the option to receive such education). Oftentimes, girls may not even know they’re being harassed, says Jennie Berglund, a middle-school health and sex-ed teacher and founder of Young Women’s Leadership Forum, a group dedicated to helping middle school girls overcome harassment to achieve their goals. This is because harassment is so often packaged as a “joke,” allowing abusers to toe the line between what is legal and illegal. Abusers may also try to “gaslight” their victims, making them think that they’re crazy for feeling upset. Because of these factors and more, about two-thirds of sex crimes never get reported, according to stats from the Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).
“I was only in middle school and barely knew what sex was, much less sexual harassment and how to deal with it,” a now-21-year-old Anna explains. “He never even touched me but it made me feel sick and dirty, like I did something wrong, and I dreaded going to school every day because of him.”
That sense of dread continued until one day, during another episode of harassment, Anna burst into tears and her teacher finally noticed something was going on. She told the teacher about the abuse from her classmate and her teacher took her seriously, removing him from the class and recommending him for counseling. Unfortunately, that didn’t totally stop the harassment. While he couldn’t bother her in class anymore, in the hallways he and his friends would follow her around, calling her a slut and worse.
While in-person harassment can be traumatic, the harassment that takes place in text messages or Instagram DMs can also infiltrate schools. Quinn*, 16, found this out when she sent a nude selfie to her crush. Even though her crush swore he wouldn’t share it with anyone, it quickly spread through the school and soon “literally everyone was talking about my boobs, in class, in the hallway, on Instagram, everywhere,” she says. “And they weren’t nice about it.”
And Quinn isn't alone. Nearly 40 percent of teens have experienced at least one form of harassment via technology, like text messages or Snapchat, according to a study done by the University of Chicago. And that number doesn't account for dick pics, requests for blow jobs or nude photos, or comments about body parts, which are so common, victims may not even feel like they're worth reporting.
It wasn’t long before a teacher saw the picture and reported it to the principal. Quinn says the school started calling parents and threatening the boys that they’d call the police or charge them with having child porn. “It was humiliating and everyone basically blamed me and abandoned me,” she says. She ended up withdrawing from school for several months.
Even though the majority of 7th to 12th grade girls say harassment happens on the regular and it’s hurting their ability to learn, 80 percent of schools reported exactly zero harassment, in a recent report by the American Association of University Women (AAUW). This staggering stat shows that either middle- and high- school girls aren’t reporting their harassment or the schools are failing at protecting their students. More likely, it's a bit of both.
For young victims, reporting harassment is complicated. To start, being harassed can be straight-up scary and a totally natural response to fear is to freeze up in the moment, says Donna M. Volpitta, Ed.D., a counselor and founder of The Center for Resilient Leadership. “Sexual harassment and assault is a threat to the brain, triggering the ‘fight, flight, or freeze’ response, and often victims will freeze, which leaves them feeling helpless in response to that threat,” she explains. This helpless feeling can have lasting effects, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders and self-harming behaviors like cutting.
When it comes to anything involving sex, even harassment, young women are under a ton of pressure to not just accept it, but even act like they like it, says Lisa Wade, Ph.D., a gender and sex researcher and author of American Hookup.

If sexual harassment starts in middle school, high school is where the problem morphs into an epidemic. With early occurrences of sexual harassment going unchecked, the frequency of harassment can pick up as teens dive deeper into puberty, have their first sexual encounters, and form romantic relationships. Nearly 60 percent of high school girls said they’d been victims of sexual harassment, according to a survey done by the AAUW. Most of the girls said they were harassed by other students but 30 percent admitted they’ve been harassed by a school employee or a teacher.
Again, the effects of sexual harassment has negative and long-lasting effects. “This absolutely bleeds over into their school life, hurting their self-esteem and grades,”says Berglund.
Over half of teen girls said being sexually harassed made them feel embarrassed, self-conscious, angry or scared, the AAUW added. How are you supposed to even think about finishing your science project when your classmate is making you feel objectified and uncomfortable on a daily basis?

Over half of teen girls said being sexually harassed made them feel embarrassed and self-conscious.
Berglund says she’s seen girls wear baggier clothing to hide their bodies, put in headphones just to walk from one class to the next to block out comments, and even avoid drinking fountains for fear of bending over and getting groped.
Girls also reported having trouble sleeping, losing their appetite, avoiding class or a study group, thinking about changing schools, actually changing schools, avoiding certain rooms like the library, or changing their schedule, according to the AAUW study.
And while there are a lot of complicated feelings and reasons behind why you might not report sexual harassment and assault, there’s always that lingering extra fear that even if you do say something, it won’t work.
Under Title IX, a federal civil rights law, any school receiving money from the government must ensure that sexual harassment or sexual violence does not create a “hostile environment.”
Schools don’t want to admit or report that they have a problem with sexual harassment.
But even though school districts have to report all sorts of data about students, there is no federal requirement to track sexual violence. And when it comes to reporting it, the laws vary widely from state to state, according to a survey done by the AP. Many schools simply don’t report it even though it is happening.
“Unfortunately, schools don’t want to admit or report that they have a problem with sexual harassment and assault,” says Esther Warkov, the executive director of the non-profit organization Stop Sexual Assault In Schools.
Not all schools are ignoring the problem but it can be tricky identifying what harassment is, when it’s gone too far, and what the appropriate consequence is as the specific rules are individual to each school. Many schools classify sexual harassment as “bullying,” Warkov adds. And this is problematic.
"Harassers and bullies often differ in motivations, and parents and educators need to understand these differences to create effective prevention and response programs," says the AAUW. "Sexual harassment and bullying are recognized as different issues under the law." While there is no federal bullying law, sexual harassment is illegal under federal law when it is pervasive or severe enough to impact a student’s education.
The responsibility starts with the schools as the best way to deal with sexual harassment is to prevent it from occurring in the first place. "Schools should conduct periodic sexual harassment awareness training for all school staff, including administrators, teachers, and guidance counselors, and age-appropriate sexual harassment training for students," according to the U.S. Department of Education. "Regardless of whether the victim files a formal complaint or requests action, the school must conduct a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation to determine what happened and must take appropriate steps to resolve the situation."
And while it’s not the job of the victim to take care of it or stop it, reporting sexual harassment or abuse is an important step in ending this vicious cycle. The only way this will change is by having more conversations about this topic, Berglund says.
For some, speaking out can help with the healing process. “It feels good now to talk about it," Anna says. "I want other girls to know that they’re not alone and they don’t have to suffer in silence.”
Quinn, on the other hand, wanted a chance to reclaim her story and tell it her way. “Because what happened to me was so public—literally the whole school knew about it and was talking about it—it got out of control fast,” she says. “Everyone thought they knew what happened and that it was because I was just a dumb slut who wanted attention. That wasn’t the truth at all. I did it because I wanted a guy to like me. He didn’t and I got burned. End of story.”
If you’re being harassed or abused, or if you’ve been a victim of sexual assault, you need to tell someone who can help you, now. Reach out to a parent, teacher, school counselor, or other trusted adult. Or if you’re not ready for that, you can contact the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) via their website, free hotline (1-800-656-HOPE), or their online chat for confidential advice and resources.
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By the numbers: Sexual violence in high school
There was the notorious Steubenville rape case and then grim events of Maryville. And of course, there was Jada, a 16-year-old girl catapulted to the ugliest kind of Internet fame when parody pictures of her splayed-out, unconscious body became a Twitter meme.
But beyond the wrenching one-off scandal and social media storm, high schools remain in many ways a black box when it comes to the reality of sexual violence.
Unlike at college, there isn't an army of victim-activists coming forward to share their stories and slam their schools with federal complaints. Many high schools are squeamish about discussing sex at all, let alone the ways it can be violently twisted. And while bullying is a buzzy topic at middle and high schools, so much of it – vicious rumor spreading, groping a girl in the halls, calling a kid a homophobic slur – is actually sexual harassment, experts say. And it starts early.
In a given school year, 58 percent of 7th-12th graders experience sexual harassment
The American Association of University Women
Sexual harassment is pervasive at junior high and high school, according to a 2011 survey by the American Association of University Women. Girls were more likely to experience all forms of sexual harassment, except for being called gay pejoratively, which guys and girls endured equally. In the 2010-11 school year, 13 percent of girls reported that they'd been touched in an "unwelcome sexual way" and 4 percent reported that they'd been forced to do something sexual. 
Students said girls who were really developed and pretty girls were the likeliest targets
The American Association of University Women
That same survey asked students who was most at risk of sexual harassment. The results were, in order:
On the fact that both pretty and non-pretty girls were high-risk targets, the report somberly stated: "Sexual harassment appears to leave girls with few options." Good-looking guys were judged the least at risk.
"[Sexual harassment] is about power and control and they are in a position of power in the school," explained Holly Kearl, a co-author of the study. "Girls usually don't really harass men or boys. Everyone's just harassing the girls."
1 in 20 sexually harassed girls switches schools each year because of it
The American Association of University Women
Conventional wisdom holds that a guy who sexually teases a girl probably just "like likes" her. But only 4 percent of confessed sexual harassers in the AAUW study said they were sexually teasing a girl because they wanted a date. Mostly, they said they didn't think it was a big deal or thought they were being funny. But a lot of students on the other end didn't shrug it off or get a chuckle. Twelve percent of students in the survey at some point stayed home from school and 19 percent had trouble sleeping because of sexual harassment. The negative impacts are significantly more pronounced for girls.
"The impact was really upsetting," Kearl said. "To think about all these students having these problems and the schools not willing to do anything about it."
Middle school bullies are 4.6 times more likely to sexually harass
A longitudinal study of 979 students released last month found that 6th grade boys who bullied other kids were almost five times likelier to engage in sexually harassing behaviors two years later. Using gay slurs had a particularly notable effect, making it one and a half times likelier that a boy would go on to sexually harass.
"The best way to demonstrate that you're not gay is to sexually harass someone," explained the study's author, Dorothy Espelage. "Because you're publicly saying, 'I'm a man.'"
1 in 5 high school girls say they’ve been sexually assaulted at school
In total, 53 percent of high school girls are sexual assaulted by a peer, according to a 2008 study of more than 1,000 students, and 39 percent of sexual assaults took place at school. That's specifically unwanted sexual contact, as opposed to the unwanted sexual comments and rumor spreading, which falls under the umbrella of sexual harassment. The majority of these sexual assaults were on the milder end of the spectrum – unwanted kissing, hugging or sexual touching – but a sizeable minority reported more severe violations.
1 in 8 high school girls says she's been raped
Twelve percent of the high school girls in that same study reported that they'd been raped by a peer. The 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention came close to that result, with 10.5 percent of high school girls and 4.2 percent of high schools boys reporting that they'd been forced to have sex. A nationally representative government survey found that 42.2 percent of female rape victims were first raped before age 18.
18 percent of teens report being sexually abused in their relationships
In a new survey of 667 teenagers who'd been dating in the last year, funded by National Institute of Justice, nearly 20 percent of both boys and girls said they'd been victims of sexual abuse in their relationships. In contrast to earlier studies, this nationwide sample found that girls and boys experienced dating abuse at similar rates. The study didn't dig into the harm caused, and it's possible girls endured worse injuries from the abuse. Bruce Taylor, a principal research scientist with NORC at the University of Chicago and one of the study's lead researchers, told the Associated Press that the survey uncovered "the startlingly widespread nature of the problem."
12 percent of teens admit that they've sexually abused someone they're dating
In that same survey, conducted as a self-administered online questionnaire, one in eight teens said they had sexually abused someone they're dating. The rates of perpetrating dating abuse for boys and girls were again similar. But the researchers told the Associated Press that there was a difference by age, with girls more likely to seriously threaten or be physicaly violent towards their dating partners between the ages of 12 and 14, and boys more likely to become perpetrators as they got older. 
60 percent of high schools boys find it acceptable to force sex on a girl in some circumstances
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