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From: Karen Ehrhardt <karen>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:02:45 -0800
You said "Period." I'm offended!
(just kidding)
Thanks to everyone for a fascinating discussion.
karen ehrhardt
- former library staffer (9 years)
- current picture book author (This Jazz Man)
- aspiring middle-grade novelist,
On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:52 AM, James Elliott wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
>
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Received on Mon 19 Feb 2007 12:02:45 PM CST
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:02:45 -0800
You said "Period." I'm offended!
(just kidding)
Thanks to everyone for a fascinating discussion.
karen ehrhardt
- former library staffer (9 years)
- current picture book author (This Jazz Man)
- aspiring middle-grade novelist,
On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:52 AM, James Elliott wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
>
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