Hostile environment?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 409-410

  Zirkel, Perry A ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. Inasmuch as this case was decided on a motion to dismiss, which is made prior to a trial, the various "facts" here are merely allegations that are ac-cepted as true for the sole purpose of determining whether the dismissal motion should be granted.
2. Nicole K. v. Upper Perkiomen Sch. Dist., 964 F. Supp. 931 (E.D. Pa. 1997). I obtained supplementary information from the parents' attorney, Philip Matthew Stinson, and one of the district's attorneys, Kenneth Roos, at the end of August 1997.
3. See, for example, Perry A. Zirkel and Ivan Gluckman, "Verbal Abuse of Students," NASSP Bulletin, May 1991, pp. 90-94 (jointly published in Principal, May 1991, pp. 52-53). For overlapping coverage, see Perry A. Zirkel, "Picking on Students," Phi Delta Kappan, May 1995, pp. 729-31.
4. See, for example, Perry A. Zirkel and Ivan Gluckman, "Verbal Abuse of Students," NASSP Bulletin, May 1991, pp. 90-94 (jointly published in Principal, May 1991, pp. 52-53). For overlapping coverage, see Perry A. Zirkel, "Picking on Students," Phi Delta Kappan, May 1995, pp. 729-31.
5. See, for example, Perry A. Zirkel and Ivan Gluckman, "Verbal Abuse of Students," NASSP Bulletin, May 1991, pp. 90-94 (jointly published in Principal, May 1991, pp. 52-53). For overlapping coverage, see Perry A. Zirkel, "Picking on Students," Phi Delta Kappan, May 1995, pp. 729-31.
6. See, for example, Pyle v. South Hadley Sch. Comm., 861 F. Supp. 57 (D. Mass. 1994), on certif., 667 N.E.2d 870 (Mass. 1996). For corresponding cases at the university level, see, for example, Dambrot v. Central Michigan Univ., 55 F.3d 1177 (6th Cir. 1995); Iota Xi Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity v. George Mason Univ., 933 F.2d (4th Cir. 1993); and UWM Post, Inc. v. Board of Regents, 774 F. Supp. 1164 (E.D. Wis. 1991). For a similar circumstance, see Perry A. Zirkel, "Who's Harassing Whom?" Phi Delta Kappan, May 1990, pp. 734-35.
7. See, for example, Perry A. Zirkel, "Student-to-Student Sexual Harassment," Phi Delta Kappan, April 1995, pp. 648-50. For more recent litigation, see, for example, Davis v. Monroe County Bd. of Educ., 120 F.3d 1390 (11th Cir 1997); Nabozny v. Podlesny, 92 F.3d 446 (7th Cir. 1996); Rowinsky v. Bryan Indep. Sch. Dist., 80 F.3d 1006 (5th Cir. 1996), cert. denied, 117 S. Ct. 165 (1997); Doe v. Petaluma City Sch. Dist., 54 F.3d 1447 (9th Cir. 1995); Doe v. Londonberry Sch. Dist., 970 F. Supp. 64 (D.N.H. 1997); Jacqueline M. v. Martinez Unified Sch. Dist., 964 F. Supp. 1369 (N.D. Cal. 1997); Piwonka v. Tidehaven Indep. Sch. Dist.,961 F. Supp. 169 (S.D. Tex. 1997); Collier v. William Penn Sch. Dist., 956 F. Supp. 1209 (E.D. Pa. 1997); and Burrow v. Postville Community Sch. Dist., 929 F. Supp. 1193(N.D. Iowa 1996).
8. See, for example, Rothman v. Emory Univ., 123 F.3d 446 (7th Cir. 1997); and Guckenberger v. Boston Univ., 957 F. Supp. 306 (D. Mass. 1997).
9. See, for example, "Parents of Jewish Students Sue Alabama School System," Education Week, 10 September 1997, p. 4 (reporting suit Herring v. Key. in M.D.Ala.).