Petition: Stop Oakland School’s Sexual Assault

Stop Oakland School’s Sexual Assault

Giselle Herrera started this petition to Department of Education, Ousd district, and it now has 48,109 signatures

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Hundreds of Oakland Tech HS walked out of class on Wednesday, November 3, 2021, to demand school leaders to do better at handling sexual misconduct.  They marched two miles from Oakland Unified School District to downtown, carrying signs, repeated chants, and stopped traffic.  This petition was made to spread awareness about the OUSD School District, hoping that they will do better disciplining students who break the sexual assault school policy. OUSD School District has ignored and silenced students’ voices that are speaking up about it. We are planning to take this petition to the School’s District Attendant and demand that they give proper punishments for students that sexually harass/rape instead of letting them go with a slap on the wrist. The principal of Oakland Tech HS, Richard Fairly needs to address the issue more than just simply sending an email to the school community. “For far too long, OUSD and surrounding districts have perpetuated a culture that has made sexual misconduct seemingly go unpunished,” stated Amara Romero, a junior who helped organize this march. Tech students have laid out five demands for the school and OUSD to implement: a policy for addressing sexual misconduct that doesn’t retraumatize survivors and that students can help create, more support for students who are survivors of sexual harm, training for school staff on how to identify sexual misconduct and how to behave appropriately around students, abolishing the district’s and the school’s student dress code, and establishing a committee of teachers and students to review allegations of sexual misconduct.  We are begging you to support us, not only for students’ safety but for community safety. Please spread this petition to every platform you have, any help we can get will insure that we get this problem fixed.

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