Speak Up!

Claire Joe, London, U.K.
     I started my studies on a university course very happy in September. In October I started attending lectures on my course. I got unwanted attention from a male university lecturer who kept smiling at me. I thought it was my imagination but I used to get the train home from university, and [...]

Jude
     It was my freshman year of high school that I was taking a science class with a “notoriously perverted” teacher, or so I’d been warned by peers.  Regardless, I needed the credit, and at a small high school, he was the only educator teaching the class.
     He proved to be overly casual for a teacher, [...]

Dream
     My science teacher is 20 and I am 15.  He told me to stay after class one day.  I asked him “What for?” and he said that he wanted to talk to me about something and to sit down.   So I did.
     We started talking about school stuff and then he changes the subject and [...]

John, United Kingdom
     I am a gay man and want to share my story.
     I was a PhD student and everyone said I could be a great professor or something like that. But everything changed when I went to a small European country to conduct fieldwork. (I was an anthropology major, so I had to [...]

     Hello.  I am a 13 year old girl, but was 12 yrs. old and in the 7th grade when this happened.
     My gym teacher, lets call him “Mr.Brown,” was in his mid to late forties, married, and had a daughter my age.
     I was in gym class one day and we were in our football [...]

Kristine
     At the beginning of this school year, I noticed an extreme change in my 12 yr old son’s attitude towards anyone in authority, including me. 
     Then I saw his grades in two classes quickly fall to the point of F’s.  He started refusing to do homework, stopped studying for tests.  For the first [...]

Sue  
     My story happened in 2004, when I first met with my professor.  At that time, I was thinking about applying for a master’s program in that school, and he is the chair.  He is nationally famous in the field, kind and  funny, widely loved by his students.  I liked him at first because he had been so patient, [...]

Pam, Pennsylvania
     I was already finished with my first year of college and was taking a summer course. From the first day, I had an odd feeling about my professor, and even thought about dropping the class. Well, he said attend every class and he would pass us all, so I ended up going to every class and [...]

 Janae, Australia   
     I have been harassed by quite a while now from a teacher at my school. I didn’t, and still don’t, really understand why I was the target.  I don’t think I “look” like the kind of girl that would get this kind of attention.
     Anyway this man was both my level manager and my [...]

Kaitlin
     I am a freshman in college and I just recently had to deal with sexual harassment with one of my professors.  He told the class to make meetings with him before each project was due, just so that we could see if we were on the right track.  Well, each time my friend and [...]