has become rampant in schools. Victims and people involved are actually fit into categories in how he or she handles the problem, which leads to why sexual harassment is an injustice that keeps growing. The victim may tell herself she can handle the situation and to others it may look as if she can handle herself or maybe she is too scared of running her mouth. Strange enough, “some people are jealous of the attention the victim is getting or think it is just some big joke” (Black 46). Occasionally in the school sense, parents interfearing can make things worse and the child coming off as a ‘baby’ or a ‘coward.’ Sometimes parents are shocked and do not believe their child. “Accounts of sexual harassment in schools are not atypical. They are repeated daily across the country in every kind of community, from urban to rural areas” (Stein 26). In fact, “it is estimated that more than sixty percent of girls and forty percent of boys in the teenage years have been sexually harassed in some way, shape, or form” (Charen 52). Today’s children are the world’s future. Our future is hopeless if sexual harassment is an obstacle they must face. Which yet adds to the list of why sexual harassment is an injustice that needs to be stopped. Sexual harassment can be erased. There are solutions to this problem that are being used but others are harder to come across. A clear definition of sexual harassment needs to be addressed so no excuses or exceptions can be found within the lines of the law. A policy statement indicating the intolerance of this injustice needs to be at a point in which the public understands this. Effective communication with those involved would be an ideal goal to stop sexual harassment. Also needed is the education for everyone, especially children. For the aftermath of a crime, an accessible grievance procedure for the victim would be objective. Sexual harass...
