I was ten.

[phands]

This is harrowing....and mild, given what happened to other girls and women. It is a superb illustration of the depths of the implicit disrespect for them in society.....

I was in seventh grade. Youngest of my grade, just ten years old the first day of school with my birthday still months away, skinny, tall for my age, hadn’t opted out of the uniform requirement. A boy started stalking me at school. He’d follow me around campus, catcall me, get in my way, crowd me, push or pull me by my backpack.
I was a good girl. I told him to stop, that I didn’t like how he was acting. I used the pretty words the anti-bullying people told us to. He laughed. He kept following me, harassing me, crowding me.
I was a good girl. I reported him to the office, since telling him to stop hadn’t worked. The staff eyed my long legs in my uniform skort, glanced dismissively at my flat chest, looked annoyed, called the boy in. A cheerful male counselor laughingly told the boy that girls don’t like it when you tease them, so he should stop, okay? There was an obvious sense that they weren’t upset with him at all, and were just going through the motions. He was sent back to class after barely two minutes. I was kept for a half hour, as I was told that girls mature faster than boys, and boys tend to tease girls they like, it’s a compliment. I shouldn’t take it so seriously, I shouldn’t be so sensitive, it was my job to me more mature so he had enough time to grow up more and learn better ways to talk to girls. I should be nice to him, he was in a difficult time for his body. After missing an entire class to this lecture, I was allowed to leave.
He didn’t stop. If anything, he got worse.

There's a LOT more at the link:- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/1/1800396/-I-was-ten

 

[starwater]

This is harrowing....and mild, given what happened to other girls and women. It is a superb illustration of the depths of the implicit disrespect for them in society.....

[FONT=&]I was in seventh grade. Youngest of my grade, just ten years old the first day of school with my birthday still months away, skinny, tall for my age, hadn’t opted out of the uniform requirement. A boy started stalking me at school. He’d follow me around campus, catcall me, get in my way, crowd me, push or pull me by my backpack.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]I was a good girl. I told him to stop, that I didn’t like how he was acting. I used the pretty words the anti-bullying people told us to. He laughed. He kept following me, harassing me, crowding me.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]I was a good girl. I reported him to the office, since telling him to stop hadn’t worked. The staff eyed my long legs in my uniform skort, glanced dismissively at my flat chest, looked annoyed, called the boy in. A cheerful male counselor laughingly told the boy that girls don’t like it when you tease them, so he should stop, okay? There was an obvious sense that they weren’t upset with him at all, and were just going through the motions. He was sent back to class after barely two minutes. I was kept for a half hour, as I was told that girls mature faster than boys, and boys tend to tease girls they like, it’s a compliment. I shouldn’t take it so seriously, I shouldn’t be so sensitive, it was my job to me more mature so he had enough time to grow up more and learn better ways to talk to girls. I should be nice to him, he was in a difficult time for his body. After missing an entire class to this lecture, I was allowed to leave.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]He didn’t stop. If anything, he got worse. [/FONT]

There's a LOT more at the link:- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/1/1800396/-I-was-ten

This is precisely my experience. And the boys got away with so much that the girls were called out about.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

No surprise. The anti-bullying efforts "work" because they make the victims realize the system won't protect them, reporting it is worse than not reporting it. Presto, the numbers look good. Never mind what happens to the kids.

 

[BH]

I know of a case where a teacher stopped this. A girl in elementary school started growing breasts and hips while in the fifth grade. One little boy just could not keep his hands off her private areas. The teacher called his mom, mom said he wouldn't do that kind of thing, teacher sent him to office, principal sent him back saying deal with it yourself, held him out of recess, did not give him afternoon snack, kept him out of p.e, ect. The flustered teacher sent him to another teacher to stay in his class corner just to get him out of her class and away from the poor girl. The other teacher was a man who gave the little boy a lecture on how gentlemen do not touch women there unless they are their doctor and with her permission. Little boy said okay and the next day did the same thing he was doing before, grabbing her breasts. This time the male teacher saw him do it it to her out on the play ground and he called both of them over to talk to both of them.

He said "son, I've told you you should not touch a young lady in those places and why we should not do so but you do not listen. There is an old saying that goes like this "A wise man accepts rebuke but an idiot only understands blows". We have held you out of p.e., called your mom, not given you afternoon snack and everything else but you just will not leave (girl's name) alone." So he looks right at the girl and says in front of him "Next time he touches your butt or your chest slap him so hard you make him crap himself"

A couple of days later the teacher is patrolling the playground and all of a sudden --slaaaaapppp- and the boy comes running over to the teacher crying with his palm covering his face. He tells the teacher (the girl's name) hit him so hard he fell down. The teacher said "Well I hate that b ut were you doing something you shouldn't have?" And the boy said "Yes, I touched her titty". And the teacher said 'Didn't I tell you not to do that?' "Yes" said the boy. Teacher asks "Are you going to ever do it again ?" "No " said the boy and by golly it didn't happen again.

 

[BH]

No surprise. The anti-bullying efforts "work" because they make the victims realize the system won't protect them, reporting it is worse than not reporting it. Presto, the numbers look good. Never mind what happens to the kids.

Yeah, when I was teaching school I saw stuff like this a lot. School is a business and administrators and teachers are always going to take care of number one. People like to gripe about cops being immune to criticism. Teachers and school administrators I found are some of the most professionally narcissistic "if you aren't one of us you have no place to say anything about us" people on earth. I found many would feign they cared about the kids and even their families when in front of them but when in the lounge would make fun of these students and their families behind their backs. I saw a lot of cruelty that was pent up and not shown. Many do care about their students but most these days are there because they could not find a job that paid as good as teaching (which isn't that much) or could not find work doing anything else that paid a lot more.