Court Weighs Harassment By Students
Washington
The U.S. Supreme Court should not open the federal courthouse door to lawsuits seeking to hold school districts responsible for student-on-student sexual harassment, the lawyer for a Georgia district told the justices last week.
"Forty-five million children struggle to sort out the relationship between boys and girls," said W. Warren Plowden Jr., representing the Monroe County district. "We urge you not to federalize classroom conduct."
The district's arguments got a sympathetic reception from several justices, who worried aloud that ordinary children's behavior could result in a barrage of lawsuits under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. That federal law prohibits discrimination based on sex in public...
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