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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A teacher walked into the bathroom during the assault, saw the two feet under the door, and walked out, doing nothing. Aces.[/quote]
That teacher will never experience a moment of peace again after knowing what happened to that poor girl.[/quote]

I'm not sure that the kind of person who would walk out and do nothing would have those feelings.[/quote]

Let me provide an alternative viewpoint of why this might’ve happened:

Teacher walks in. Sees two sets of feet in a stall. Surprise surprise, kids are in a stall together. This happens ALL THE TIME. Am I as the teacher going to intervene and try to get in that stall? No. What I AM going to do is leave and go find admin/school security because it’s their job to deal with those kinds of infractions. Given the interaction BEGAN consensually, the teacher likely had no idea it was going to turn into rape. Nothing may have been occurring at all when she walked in. As much as you might want to believe that students rarely meet in the bathroom to hook up or do drugs, that isn’t true: it’s incredibly common. She didn’t knowingly walk out on a rape - [b]she walked out to probably go tell admin to deal with two students in the stall doing who knows what.  [/b][/quote]Did she do that?[/quote]

I don’t know. I am simply saying, the situation has alternative explanations that aren’t “a teacher saw and heard a rape and just left.” As a teacher, we should actually not be the ones trying to address drugs, weapons, sex, fights, etc in schools - it’s a huge liability on all sides. So if I walked in and saw more than one student in a stall, I would find as quickly as I could the appropriate person to handle that kind of incident. I certainly think if the teacher walked in and heard screaming and struggles and could tell it was a sexual assault her response would’ve been more immediate to try to stop AND get help, which tells me it wasn’t clear when she saw their feet that it was sexual in nature or violent yet. I wasn’t there, I am just saying, it’s a big leap to assume she could tell an anal rape was occurring and just left because she didn’t care. [/quote]
Sounds like your whatabouting is irrelevant then.

As others have pointed out they WOULD have said something about seeing 4 feet. Regardless of knowing if a rape is happening, two students shouldn’t be in the same stall. [/quote]

This totally depends on the admin. If they are going to hint that teachers who report these things have some ulterior motives and threaten their next contract then no, teachers aren't going to say anything.[/quote]

I’m not going to say anything to kids in that second because it is more appropriate for security or admin to handle those issues. I understand you don’t get legal liability in schools but I cannot put hands on kids to separate them or be forceful in any way. If I saw feet in the stall I would probably tell them to come out , but they wouldn’t, and I would get admin / security who would be the ones who need to handle it. Teachers are NOT THE ONES in the building tasked with breaking up fights, handling sexual incidents, or dealing with contraband. It is a huge issue if we do so. Again, the teacher likely didn’t walk in WHEN the assault was occurring because the report claims the assailant had the victim on the floor assaulting her. That’s not what the teacher saw. She probably left to tell someone and then nobody followed up. [/quote]
The PP above said they would just leave and tell someone else. They would not say something. THAT is the problem. No one said anything about forcibly separating them. Stop adding hyperbole.

PP, like the teacher in this case, will never experience a moment of peace for saying nothing. [/quote]

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