Feministing
7.23.15 | Dana Bolger
These days everyone is talking about how colleges and universities can cut down on rape on their campuses. But likely the single most important way to end violence on campus is to start talking about it long before — in middle and high school.
Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) and Alma Adams (D-N.C.) have introduced the Teach Safe Relationships Act, which amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and would require schools to teach students about safe relationships as part of sex education.
The connections between poor sex ed and sexual violence are real and pressing. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in ten female high school students have been raped and, according to a recent study, most young women assume that abuse is just “normal stuff that guys do.” As Emma Brown at the Washington Post reports,
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