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San Mateo-Foster City School District
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AFFECTED BY SEXUAL HARASSMENT?
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Know your rights.
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Students and staff are protected against sexual harassment by anyone in a school-sponsered or school-related activity, including school campus, on the school bus, or off-campus such as a school-sponsored field trip.

What is sexual harassment?
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Prohibited sexual harassment includes, but is not limited to, unwelcome sexual advances, unwanted requests for sexual favors, or other unwanted verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature made against another person of the same or opposite sex in the educational setting, under any of the following conditions:

1. Submission to the conduct is explicitly or implicitly made a term or condition of a student's academic status or progress
2. Submission to or rejection of the conduct by a student is used as the basis for academic decisions affecting the student
3. The conduct has the purpose or effect of having a negative impact on the student's academic performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive educational environment
4. Submission to or rejection of the conduct by the student is used as the basis for any decision affecting the student regarding benefits and services, honors, programs, or activities available at or through any district program or activity.
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Examples of Sexual Harassment include, but are not limited to:
- Unwelcome leering, sexual flirtations, or propositions
- Unwelcome sexual slurs, epithets, threats, verbal abuse, derogatory comments, or sexually degrading descriptions
- Graphic verbal comments about an individuals body or overly personal conversation
- Sexual jokes, derogatory posters, notes, stories, cartoons, drawings, pictures, obscene gestures, or computer-generated images of a sexual nature
- Spreading sexual rumors
- Teasing or sexual remarks about students enrolled in a predominately single-sex class
- Massaging, grabbing, fondling, stroking or brushing the body
- Touching an individual's body or clothes in a sexual way
- Impeding or blocking movements or any physical interference with school activities when directed at an individual on the basis of sex
- Displaying sexually suggestive objects
- Sexual assault, sexual battery, or sexual coercion
- Electronic communications containing comments, words, or images describes above (i.e., text messaging, social media, etc.)		How do I report Sexual Harassment?

You can report sexual harassment to any school staff member, Principal, Assistant Principal, or to the district's Title IX Officer.

Pam Bartfield, Title IX Officer:
pbartfield@smfc.k12.ca.us
(650) 312-7252

*For a copy of the district's Sexual Harassment policy and procedures, contact your school or District Office.
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All complaints and allegations of sexual harassment are kept confidential except as necessary to carry out the investigation or take other subsequent, necessary actions. Retaliatory behavior or action against any person who reports, files a complaint, or testifies about, or otherwise supports a complainant in alleging sexual harassment is prohibited.
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