Throughout the world, the school offers unique education that educates the rights of each child. They can give children the opportunity to grow with their creative talents and critical thinking, achieve life skills, develop social relationships and become self-respect as individuals. They can also act as important assets for the development and distribution of non-violence, co-operation, tolerance and respect, not only among students and workers, but also in broad communities. Any day, almost a billion children go to school all over the world. These children encourage education, personal development and social skills which teach them in a safe and welcoming environment to enjoy their rights. But sometimes these girls and boys who are exposed to sex and gender based violence, physical punishment and other forms of violence at the hands of teachers and other school workers. In addition, many are attacked by harassment, going to school, war crimes, arms, and sexual and gender-based violence, by their own colleagues or teachers. For these children, going to school is possible and promise is damaged by pain, sorrow and fear. In some cases violence, or violence, levels of threat, it may be that children leave school. So if the school does not go to school due to violence, it will be a big obstacle for society. This will disrupt their personal life and it will also develop our society.
Definition of sexual harassment:
Sexual violence is defined as a sexual act committed against someone without that person’s permission. Sexual violence is any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence or force, unwanted sexual comments or proceeds, acts to traffic a person or acts directed against a person's sexuality, in spite of the relationship to the victim. Sexual violence was considered as only happening to women and as being ordinary and “normal” during both war and peace times from the Ancient Greeks to the 20th century as we can see it from a historical standpoint. It took until the end of the 20th century for sexual violence to no longer be considered a minor issue and to gradually become criminalized, with a wider core on the victims.Sexual harassment can be various types.
§ Verbal comments about someone’s body, sexual remarks or accusations, dirty jokes or stories.
§ physical grabbing, rubbing, flashing or mooning, touching, pinching in a sexual way, sexual assault
§ Visual display of naked pictures or sex-related objects, obscene gestures.
Sexual harassment in schools:
Violence that occurs in and around schools also known as school-related gender based violence continues to be a serious obstacle in realizing the right to education. Girls are most at risk of Gender Based Violence in and around schools, but boys may also be targeted. Violence can also have serious health and psychological allusions that can have long-lasting effects. Sexual harassment is a serious problem for student’s at all educational levels .In school students can be sexually harassed. They can sexually harass by many ways. Both boy and girl can be a victim of harassment. In that case boys and girls harassment are different. Boys can be harassed by their other students or teacher for many reasons. But a girl mainly becomes a victim of harassment because of her gender. Sometimes they can be harassed by other students, by their boy classmate or seniors, by other employees who work in a school, or by their teachers. One of the most common reasons reported for sexually harassing behavior is because the harasser thinks it is funny to do so in that case. Again sometimes girl harass by their boy classmates. It is called that boys who want to date with a girl but the girl refuse so he harass the girl in school. Sometimes school employees and teachers are also involved with that. It is very ashamed to say that teacher who used be a like our father sometimes a female student is harassed by him. The number of type of case is not low. In Bangladesh we saw many of these types of case.
Forms of sexual harassment in school:
In recent years, sexual violence by boys or men (teachers and learners) against girls has received increased concentration as a major concern. There is various type of sexual harassment in school. They are given below
· Like if a teacher or school employee offers a girl for a better grade or treats her better if she do something sexual, which is a type of sexual harassment.
· In the classroom When unwanted touching, comments, or gestures are coming from the male students or by the teacher to a girl are so bad or occur so often that it interferes with girl schoolwork, makes her feel painful or unsafe at school, or prevents her from participating in or benefiting from a school program or activity, this is called hostile surroundings harassment. This type of harassment could include conduct of a sexual nature, as well as harassing manner based on a student’s failure to be traditional to gender stereotypes.
· Harassment “because of sex” can include nonsexual hostile conduct if the harassment is directed at a student because of his or her gender.
· When a teacher offer a student to do something illegal with him, but the girl do not want to do that for this reason teacher punish her, criticized her or embrace her in the classroom in front for other students.
· When other student’s offers her want to date with her but the girl refuse then he maybe harass her, spread rumor about her in many ways.
· In private tuitions teacher can sexually harass the girl or even can rape the girl.
· Non-consensual touching or sexual assault.
Causes of Sexual Violence:
To explain why sexual violence is so general in our school and society, we can say about gender roles. It is argued in our society that girls are taught to be modest and boys to be influential. Why is a boy ruling over the girl and she thinks that it is normal and she will have to face patiently, so we can feel that gender discrimination is sexual Violence is in the heart. Understanding the unequal rules and values of men in the conventional concepts about children and appropriate behavior for girls. According to this opinion, men are superior to women, and behave in this behavior which may lead to sexual violence. There has been mainly sexual violence for such a thought.
Effects of sexual harassment:
In school because of this sexual violence a girl can suffer from various types of problems. Our societies also hamper because of these. These are given below-
§ From unwanted sexual remarks to forced sexual contact, these experiences cause female students to feel insulted, uncomfortable, angry, and disappointed in their academic life.
§ In response, students avoid places on campus, drop classes, discontinue higher education, are forced to get married by their parents, and may even become psychologically damaged for the rest of their lives.
§ The girl can feel broken. She can part herself off from all kinds of school activities, she doesn’t want to go the school, and school can be a fearful place for her.
§ She maybe not feels comfortable and feel problem to trust anyone. She may be cut herself off to the outside world.
§ Sexual violence often leads to feelings of insecurity, shame and low self-esteem, and this puts victims at higher risk to suffer from mental health problems, posttraumatic stress disorder.
§ She may feel health related problems, Blood pressure, sleep problem.
§ Physically, girls may have to cope with unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, STDs, and/or HIV/AIDS.
§ When the situation is under control even she can do suicide.
Recommendation:
There is some recommendation by following it we can reduce the number of gender based violence in school. They are given below.
§ Anybody who sees sexual harassment occur should report it; the individual need not be the victim of the harassment. Schools should ensure that employees clearly understand the extent of their responsibilities for reporting sexual harassment.
§ The harassment should be reported to a responsible school employee, such as a teacher, principal, faculty member, administrator, security officer, affirmative action officer, or professional staff member in the office of student affairs.
§ If the harassment comes from the teacher then it should be reported to the principle.
§ Teach girls how to negotiate and be assertive.
§ Girl or boys should be feeling free to say about it to their parents, they should be afraid to tell of becoming a victim to their eider ones. And parents should also be very supportive in this case.
§ Government and police should help the girl and should punish the culprit properly so that people afraid to do such heinous crime.
§ School should established rules and remedies for this type of case.
§ A clear sexual harassment at school policy
There are some cases studies are given below to give example of sexual violence by the teacher to a female student in Bangladesh. This is just some cases. But many of the students face it but could not tell it because of fear, social status Etc. This is how a girl raped and sexually abused by the teacher .in Bangladesh many of girls are facing it but they are not reporting for their social status, for the feeling of being bad too other people’s eyes. That’s why the culprit teacher is are safely living and teaching them. Here are some case studies from Bangladesh.
Case study 1:
In that case we can talk about porimol’s case. Porimol was a bangle teacher of vnc who raped a school girl of class 10. According to reports Porimol recorded the incident in his mobile and threatened the victim that he would post it on the Internet if she divulged the matter. As the investigations began, more shocking information was revealed. The incident took place in late May 2011 and the school headmaster at Basundhara branch did not take any action against the teacher after the victim reported it in a letter. The events and subsequent student protests caused much uproar in the country and more drama unfolded as the students continued their protest which led to the replacement of the school principal.
Case studies two:
An 11-year-old Muslim girl is in very serious conditions after she was raped on 2 September, 2010 during the holy month of Ramadan, by her teacher at the Hogalpatia Hafezia Madrassah, an Islamic school she attends in Madaripur District in Dhaka. The culprit teacher was Abbas Ali, 35, who taught Islamic culture at the school.
The girl’s parents discovered what happened when they went to the school after she was late in coming home. Inside the building, they found their daughter badly bleeding and in shock.
“At the end of the day, the teacher let all the students go, except for our daughter,” they said. “He forced her to stay with him. Once alone, he raped her several times, and then fled.”
When the parents found the girl, she was bleeding in her genital area and had bruises all over the body.
Conclusions:
It is thus clear that girls face various challenges from school violence, different teachers or children. The first aspect of a teacher is to guide their students on how to save their lives, their role as a guide and a role model in schools. But it is shameful that young people are being sexually harassed by their teacher. A teacher should treat students like his daughter, sister. As a Nobel profession, he should be more moral in this field and in this sense more ethics should be increased.
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