Speak Up!

 Lian, Oregon   
     I am 12 years old and am in 7th grade. In one of my classes, I met this guy. He is 2 years older then me, 14. His name is “James.”
     About a year ago, everyday in class, he sits next to me and touches me. EVERYWHERE. I’m not going to go into [...]

Ava
     It happened in eight grade during my Algebra II class. When the teacher assigned seating, I ended up sitting between two boys.  At first they seemed nice enough but they always made sexual jokes and I just sort of laughed along with them.
     Eventually one of them began trying to grab at me from [...]

     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 [...]

Rachel, New York  
     I’m 14, in 9th grade. There’s this guy, “Joe.” He’s in two of my classes.
     In one class, he used to have to sit next to me in the back corner of the room where no one could see us. He’d try to touch me, ask me personal questions, try to get [...]

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 [...]

Cara, Arizona
     One day in 5th grade there was a new student who immediately he took interest in me.  He always flirted with one of my classmates and I.  One day after lunch he spanked me.
     I tried to ignore him although it did not work.  It continued for the rest of the year, but not [...]

Rachel, England  
     When I was 14,  one of the guys in my school started to harass me.  He’d rest his hand on my leg, touch my rear, run his hand up the inside of my leg .  He’d ask if he could check if my ‘fadge’ was real.  
     He’d try and back me into [...]

 Ghost in the Wind, Maryland   
     Hello, I’m 11 years old and this year, I started middle school.
     This boy (lets call him Tom) started joking around and being silly with me and a friend of mine. That was it, at first.
     But IT GOT WORSE! He started to sexually harass us. He was snapping our [...]

Ali, Georgia
     It happened when I was 14 years old.  In my school there was always this guy who kept finding some way to corner me in the hall or during class so that I would have to push up against him to get on my way.  One time, he stopped me in the hallway, wouldn’t [...]

Eily, Nebraska    
     Most of my senior year in high school, I was harassed by a “friend.” 
     When it started, he would joke that he wanted to have sex in the school’s band room. 
     I didn’t like it, but I didn’t say anything about it to anyone.  I stopped being able to eat like I had before.  [...]