The issue of sexual abuse in schools was catapulted into the spotlight in March when thousands of people posted about their experiences of assault and harassment in education settings on the Everyone’s Invited website.
In the course of a few weeks, more than 10,000 current and former school pupils and college and university students posted about their experiences of “rape culture” – defined as when abnormal behaviours are normalised including misogyny, harassment, abuse and assault – on the website.
Some posters named the school and their alleged abuser, some of whom were in the same social groups, with the majority of reports being from girls and young women. Many of the reports were initially about private schools, but it quickly widened to include testimonies about state schools.
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