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The Berkeley Scanner: With sexual misconduct case settled, what’s next for BHS?

December 3. 2024


ERA Senior Attorney of Litigation & Policy and Managing Attorney of the Ending Sexual Violence in Education Program Maha Ibrahim is featured in a Berkeley Scanner article about what’s next for Berkeley Unified School District after the closing of a years-long case of sexual misconduct by a teacher.

“One of the issues with all the school districts that we’ve encountered is that even if they have good policies on the books, they never change their approach to underfunding the issue of sexual assault and harassment,” she said. …

“The other issue that’s happening with Title IX is you have a bunch of adults dealing with a lot of things they don’t want to deal with, sexuality and sex with a bunch of kids. If you’re not trained, your instinct is to make it go away because it really is uncomfortable to address. This is easy with students because they are by nature transient.”

 

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