A Standard of Care for the Prevention of Sexual Misconduct by School Employees |
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| Authors: | Charol Shakeshaft Rebecca L Smith Steven Tucker Keener Emma Shakeshaft |
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| Institution: | 1. Educational Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USACshakeshaft@vcu.edu;3. School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA;4. Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA, USA;5. Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis article describes the development of a standard of care for the prevention of adult to student sexual abuse in pre K-12 schools. Standard of care is not a phrase often used in educational practice, and yet, it is a legal concept that may be useful for school administrators. A sample of administrators, child sexual abuse specialists, and attorneys with experience in school employee sexual misconduct responded to 101 items that the literature indicates should be included in a standard of care. There was agreement on 94 of these items by sample participants. Categories of the standard of care were policies, hiring process, hiring screening, hiring interview, training, and reporting. Where there was disagreement by role of respondent, attorneys, child sexual abuse specialists, or both rated the item as more important for inclusion than did administrators. |
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| Keywords: | Sexual abuse prevention policy schools school employee sexual misconduct school personnel teachers student safety standard of care legal education |
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