From: James Elliott <j_c_elliott>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:52:39 -0500

I realize that many of the people on this list are School Media, but not all of us are. Many of us work in the public library arena, and have different rules and regulations and policies and defintions. We were frankly told in our SH Course that if a woman takes offense for any reason, we don't have a leg to stand on. And we were further told that this is true whether or not something we had said was totally innocent: if someone took offense, and reported it, than that was Sexual Harassment. Period. Also, if somone just overhears something they consider offensive (i.e., not said TO them), that could also be considered a sexual harassment violation.

This was repeated in the three Counties for which I have worked so far.

Jim


>From: BudNotBuddy at aol.com
>To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Lucky and sexual harassment
>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:09:43 EST
>
>Just as health teachers and science teachers are not, in any way,
>susceptible to charges of sexual harassment when using the scientific names
> for
>anatomical body parts in the course of teaching related topics, a teacher
>is not
>going to be susceptible to charges of sexual harassment when reading aloud
>from
>or discussing a Newbery medal winning piece of children's literature
>containing the scientific names for anatomical body parts.
>
Received on Mon 19 Feb 2007 11:52:39 AM CST