Kit
There is one boy in my year (year 11) that was convicted of sexually harassing a female student but he wasn’t expelled, just moved out of her classes and told he couldn’t go near her. Him and his friends ruined school property and were told that they wouldn’t be going to prom, the end of year school trip or the sixth form because of it, but it’s almost certain that they will allow them after it’s ‘blown over’. Another time a couple of boys in the year below started groping my friends in the lunch queue so they left and told the deputy headmistress about it, but they said they couldn’t do anything because they didn’t know the names of the boys – there was not even the slightest attempt at an investigation. At lunch times the ‘lads’ use the classroom’s speakers to play expletive rap music that glorifies drugs and rape culture, but when teachers come in they just walk back out without batting an eyelash! School is a place of learning and at the moment what we are learning is that people will turn a blind eye to this kind of behaviour, which is completely unacceptable, because not only does it teach the boys that it’s ok and they won’t be called out on it, it teaches the girls that there is no point complaining as nothing’s going to be done about it, forcing them into acceptance.