Cleveland High Teacher: "I Can't Unsee What I've Witnessed at Those Dances"

The Cleveland Clarion puts a spotlight on students' decision to postpone the high school's homecoming dance to address groping.

Last month, two students from Cleveland High School explained in WW's pages why students at the Southeast Portland school had postponed their homecoming dance.

They hoped the break would give the school a chance to address what the students described as a culture of sexual harassment and unwanted groping at school dances going back years.

The latest issue of the school's student newspaper throws a spotlight on the issue, including with an essay by an IB teacher and longtime chaperone of Cleveland dances who laments, "I can't unsee what I've witnessed at those dances."

It's not prudishness guiding her thinking.

"All fours on the floor, hands all over the place," teacher Anne Dierker writes. "And the grinding. All of the grinding. It's nowhere I want to be."

Got five minutes—and an anxious desire to escape the Election Day news cycle? Head over to The Cleveland Clarion for more.

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