Gonna pitch in here as a student—don’t want to overstep my boundaries, so yell at me if I say anything bad lol
I attend a regular ol’ high school, and I can say, in my anecdotal experience, wealthy white male students tend to be treated easier. Not that this is always the case, correlation does not always equal causation, but there seems to be a positive bias towards them. I can say with absolute positivity I have been treated better because of my race, but that’s not really relevant to the gender discussion.
Looking at things such as Prepfessions (I know, the most reliable of informatio related to boarding school), I have noticed female-identified students are, in some cases, sexually objectified and almost held in an inferior light? Again, it’s Prepfessions, so like… obviously not representative of any sort of majority of prep students, but seeing senior students shaming impressional freshman girls about being curious, as all young teens are, definitely leaves a poor taste in my mouth.
I found something interesting from Phillips Andover’s “2018 State of the Academy” survey: a large, large majority of the school thinks students who are economically advantaged are punished less harshly. Again, not gender related, but something I found interesting, seeing how wealth has been mentioned frequently in this thread, and it backs up my personal experience.
Gonna get a little anecdotal here—back in middle school, there was a nude photo ring in my class. A few girls (maybe 3) and eight or nine guys. Supposedly (I’m not 100% sure of what happened, I very obviously didn’t take part) the girls were HEAVILY badgered into sending the photos, and the boys spread them around the school. Two of the girls were expelled and threatened with legal action. One of the girls got hit with a suspension. ZERO of the boys were suspended or expelled (they did have to speak to a police officer of the importance of their actions). I was dumbfounded by what happened. Again, this is purely anecdotal, but it sort of showed me how, in some cases, educational discipline seems to favor males. This isn’t always the case, as is seen in violent cases, of course, but I can absolutely see the sexual harassment case as very possible.
Women are—I don’t want to say frequently, but it happens quite a bit—mistreated when reporting sexual harrassment cases: “She was asking for it, did you see what she was wearing?” as has been reflected once in this thread. Aside just a little bit, but many times rape kits are not reported to law enforcement. Hell, even law enforcement sometimes takes the “neutral side”. I don’t want to say guilty until proven innocent, but sometimes enough investigation is not taken for cases. Totally off-topic, sorry.
Administrators do not want to ruin a boy’s life, of course, but doing nothing but assigning an apology letter solves absolutely nothing when it comes to sexual harrassment. It is less than a slap on the wrist—it’s a mist on the forehead. Maybe I misread the article, though.
I also want to say how disgusted I am with comment #37. I am not a woman, teen girl, whatever, but I audibly gasped. Teen girls expressing themselves isn’t “dressing like a hooker”. And, even if they were, how does this reflect self-worth at all? Whose business is it if a girl wishes to wear a crop top and a short skirt? Not mine, and not yours (unless it’s your child, then I mean do what you think your kid needs). And, if you’re an adult, I DEFINITELY think you shouldn’t say teen girls look like hookers. That’s sort of creepy.
Okay, that was a lot of very emotionally fueled word jumble. If I offended anyone, or said anything not good, I non-sarcastically am asking you to tell me so. If I misread/misinterpreted anything, please tell me so.