Sexually active students must be reported to law enforcement or state officials, Ore. school...
Source: The Washington Post
Teachers and staff in the Salem-Keizer school district which includes more than 40,000 students were recently told that if they learn or merely suspect a student is sexually active, they must report it to law enforcement or state officials.
According to Oregon law, anyone under 18 years old cannot legally give consent, meaning all sexual activity between minors is considered sexual abuse. This policy, district officials say, stems from Oregons mandatory reporting and child abuse laws. But that seems to be a singular interpretation of the law. The Statesman Journal reached out to school districts around the state and found that not one of them had the same mandate.
The subject came up at a training session for teachers and staff in the school district because we felt like we hadnt made it clear enough, as Superintendent Christy Perry told the Statesman Journal.
During the presentation, the district offered several specific examples of when an employee needs to contact law enforcement. These include a 15-year-old telling a teacher that she is having sex with her boyfriend and wants to learn about birth control, or a 17-year-old confiding in a teacher that his 16-year-old girlfriend is pregnant.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/03/sexually-active-students-must-be-reported-to-law-enforcement-or-state-officials-ore-school-district-says/
Doodley
(9,093 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)is sexually active can be charged with sexual abuse by law enforcement. That would put them on the list of sex offenders, ruining their entire lives.
What the hell are they thinking!
Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)Grins
(7,218 posts)They will be registered by the state as a sex offender/predator, and that will follow them their entire lives! Oregon once went after a 6-year old boy for kissing a girl - on her hand! He would have been declared a sex predator by the state. Even the WSJ screamed about that one.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)by some who are sexually active by themselves, while fantasizing about sexually active teens.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)someone needs to clarify the difference between two minors and an adult and a minor in that law. How stupid.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)and report every single student. Overwhelm the PD with investigating this.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)HAB911
(8,904 posts)dembotoz
(16,808 posts)Vinca
(50,278 posts)They'll be tied up writing reports about Tammy's sweet sixteen party and the tryst behind the birthday presents.
JDC
(10,129 posts)Maggiemayhem
(811 posts)What the hell does law enforcement have to do with this? If a cop came to my door and told me a teacher suspected my child was sexually active, I think I would blow a gasket. The fucking teacher would be next. I t doesnt even have to be true to taint a childs record.Don't the cops have better things to do like catch real criminals?
keithbvadu2
(36,827 posts)Nitram
(22,813 posts)So no student will ever go to a teacher about advice related to sex. that's progress?
xor
(1,204 posts)I can't seem to find anything more as to the logic behind why they think this makes the students "more safe" I wish reporters were more aggressive at digging into the details when it comes to stuff like this. Is this just a knee-jerk stupid decision on some administrators parts, or are there some deeper issues driving this.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)It ends with a big concert in New York and the entire social fabric of America is changed by the revolution.
Young people WILL rebel!
Chakaconcarne
(2,453 posts)(Kathy Goss, Jesse Lippole and Marty Heyen) pushing this and choosing to interpret a law to fit their morality. The only school district in the state doing this.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)would be exempted from the list of "reportable activities"?
xor
(1,204 posts)Do they bring it up in meetings or what? I'm always curious how this stuff comes about.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)I'd just have to turn in my entire class roster.
I started teaching in 1976, and I assume that any students from middle school up could be sexually active. I can't remember a year that we didn't know of a student that was pregnant, or a students weren't "caught" under the stadium seats or whatever you can imagine.
It's not always "simple", since students talk and joke about sex a lot, and the examples are not realistic. Of course students will sometimes directly tell the teacher they are pregnant or ask for help, but more often the teacher observes some behavior or overhears a conversation. It's pretty common to refer a student to a counselor or some other service.
Sorry, but even in conservative school districts sex education starts with adolescents (of course parents can usually have their darlings opt out).
If they wanted to investigate for abuse every teenager having sex, they'd have to hire more social workers and cops than teachers. I don't think anyone really knows, but I'd guess by the time they leave high school a large percentage of students are no longer virgins (half or more)? They do surveys and things, but those are self-report and not necessarily accurate.
Is Oregon going to arrest someone or investigate 10,000 students in the Salem-Keizer district for "abuse"?
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Chemisse
(30,813 posts)They would both be charged with a sex crime? Each would be both a perpetrator and a victim!
Judi Lynn
(160,543 posts)BadGimp
(4,015 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)I cant think of anything that will make this policy worse.
Corey_Baker08
(2,157 posts)malthaussen
(17,202 posts)... this has got to be the stupidest idea I've heard all day, although it is before noon.
-- Mal
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)First of all, tell a teen they can't do something and they will run right out and do it first chance they get. Second, if a teen is engaging in sexual activity, the best thing to do is educate them on possible consequences and protection not only from pregnancy but from disease. Third, you are encouraging young people to sneak and lie if you enforce things like this. And fourth, it is none of law enforcement's damn business. Are they going to put stocks in front of the school to shame kids too?
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)nt
bluestarone
(16,975 posts)This is the dumbest fucking thing i've ever heard stupid bastards
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)It's just sick, sick, sick.
There are obviously no adults in charge. I thought Oregon leans Democratic? What the hell has gone wrong?
Kids need guidance, not punishment, when it comes to the biological imperative.