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PAGE A6, KEIZERTIMES, OCTOBER 27, 2017 UNITED, continued from Page A1 that has garnered more than 500 signatures. A sit-in protest was planned for Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the school. Prior to the changes, SKSD teachers were required to report incidences of suspected neglect or any type of abuse to the Department of Human Services, but the new guidelines expand reporting to most sex- related issues. New instances that would require reporting include: a student inquiring about birth control options after admitting to sex with a partner; reports of a pregnancy; a student confi ding in a teacher after being kicked out of his home for divulging a sexually active, same-sex relationship. The training materials suggest that the new guidelines were put in place based on current child abuse reporting laws and “conversation with community partners who are experts on the issue.” A spokesperson for the district, Lillian Govus, said, “This is not a change in policy, merely a clarifi cation. As mandatory reporters, we simply give the information to the correct agencies, but it is up to their discretion whether action would be taken. This presentation is being shared with all Salem-Keizer employees to ensure we are in compliance with this law.” However, the clarifi cation feels like a stretch, said Ricky Galvin, a McNary sophomore. “The law says to report sexual abuse and rape and nothing about consensual sex,” Galvin said. “What's the point of them teaching sex ed if a student does decide to have safe sex and ends up getting reported when they want to talk about it?” It also made junior Marissa Dougall, another student organizer, feel uneasy. “This change wasn't out that students could walk communicated to students into Planned Parenthood and or parents except through receive birth control without teachers. If I didn't know about parental knowledge. Galvin bristled at an example this rule, what other rules don't regarding the I know about homosexual that could get student. me reported?” “He just got Dougall said. kicked out of his Talk within home, and now the school he's potentially rapidly turned dealing with a to fi nding the investigation? loopholes in Does the student the new policy, have to deal Dougall added. “In my — A MHS teacher with it or the parents or does advisory class, the district just we talked let it go because about this the entire period. We decided it's too hard to deal with? If we could come in, talk about they can just let that go, why situations hypothetically and not all the other ones?” Galvin there wouldn't be anything said. That particular example also to report without names,” she raised the hackles of a McNary said. In response to the new teacher who spoke on the guidelines regarding inquiries condition of anonymity. “I'm not reporting that kid to teachers about birth control, Dougall and Schott pointed to DHS, he's needs to get a home and help. I'm not going to turn him in for having sex. He's already vulnerable and at a high risk for suicide,” the teacher said. Under prior guidelines, the teacher said they were still cautious about student interaction, but not afraid to intervene. “If a kid is in the hallway bawling and I always ask them to tell me what's going on. I ask if it's social or school. They might say it's social and I ask if it's friend or boyfriend drama,” the teacher said. The next questions revolve around whether the student is being hurt by someone, the teacher said. Depending on the specifi cs of the issue and the gender of the student, the teacher said they would either counsel the student themselves or refer them to a teacher of the same gender. If the teacher overhead students talking about consensual sex, the students were asked to change the topic. “To me, I feel like I'm being told to tell the students to shut up,” the teacher said. “Teachers are also being told to establish appropriate adult- student connections so that when students come to school they feel safe and cared for. If students have a trusted adult at school that they need to talk with about sex, I see no problem with teachers being that.” To a one, the students rallying support against the changes found it hard to believe the roles they've assumed in the last two weeks, but all three mentioned an easily overlooked situation that will occur frequently if the new guidelines stand: numerous teachers at McNary and elsewhere in the district have students in Salem-Keizer schools. There's no delineation in the new guidelines for those situations. “That's crazy,” said Schott. “We are losing our trust in the district that is supposed to help us grow into the adults.” DISTRICT, continued from Page A1 also not our job to guess what the intent of the law is.” Once a teacher reports abuse, it's up to DHS on how to proceed. “We really worked to say to our educators that your job is just to report,” Perry said. “We don't want them in the business of investigation because you don't know where an investigation leads to and we want to leave that to the job of the people who are trained to do that.” Parents weren't notifi ed of the changes. “We just did the training out to teachers because we believe it's a clarifi cation of the law and we're not asking teachers to go out and fi nd out if kids are having sexual intercourse,” Perry said. Perry understands the outcry from students, which included a change.org online petition with more than 500 signatures and a small protest at the capital on Monday. “I actually feel bad about that and I think it goes back to the remedy: let's either legislate a clarifi cation or change the law,” Perry said. “We also believe it's really important to protect kids and we also know that underage sexual activity cannot be consensual. It's such a big and complicated problem with protecting kids, yet helping them feel safe so they have strong adults to make sure they have healthy relationships.” The school district does mandatory training every year in August. The slides clarifying questions about mandatory reporting were added in October at a meeting between all of the administrators. Teachers have until Nov. 15 to sign off that they've viewed the slides. “We wanted to be sure we really understood the issue,” Perry said. “To fe, I feel like I’f being told to tell the students to shut up.” crossword our teachers at risk, because they're mandatory reporters and they need to report sex abuse. We're trying to protect our teachers. We're trying to protect the safety of students and we have in some ways what people might think are confl icting laws.” Teachers are legally required to report 24 hours, seven days a week. “I am required to make a mandatory report 24-7, even if we are out in public in off hours and see what we would constitute as child abuse, we have to report,” Perry said. 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