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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,
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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.”
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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.
Teachers are even obligated
to report their own children.
“That's the position the
law puts educators in,” said
Lillian Govus, director of
communications for the
district. “That's probably not
the intent of the law but it's
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