Teacher alleges #metoo from students

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With a nod to the national "#MeToo movement," Tamalpais High School teacher Eva Rieder has gone public with allegations that male students have sexually harassed her more than a dozen times with physical touching and obscene emails, letters and phone calls - and that school administrators and staff failed to respond to her reports or take any action to stop it.

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In her statement to the board Feb. 6, Rieder outlined some of the allegations in general terms. Most of the actual words or details were "so graphic that they are unfit for this public audience, but I can provide them if needed," she told the board members. "I have been slandered by a student spreading a rumor that I made a drunken sexual advance to him at a party," she said, reading from a prepared statement. "I have been touched more than once by a student who also argues it's OK to describe his masturbatory habits in the classroom," she said. "I received profane phone calls and emails to my work and personal addresses," she said. "Some were identified as coming from the school IP (computer network) address during school hours."

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Rieder added that "trauma" from the repeated incidents has triggered medical conditions and "has caused me to take a personal leave next year." She said Monday she will still be teaching, but on a part-time schedule.

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