{"id":25550,"date":"2017-10-20T06:20:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T06:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25550"},"modified":"2017-10-20T06:20:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T06:20:41","slug":"sexual-harassment-hits-all-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25550","title":{"rendered":"Sexual harassment hits all communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4389185_web1_hallrobert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25448\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4389185_web1_hallrobert-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4389185_web1_hallrobert-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4389185_web1_hallrobert.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sexual harassment is in the air. Maybe it&#8217;s in the water.<\/p>\n<p>A one-time major-league Hollywood mogul&#8217;s career has been destroyed by allegations of his untoward behavior against women.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;Me Too&#8221; movement has emerged, with women coming forward to reveal their own exposure to sexual harassment and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Now a school district at the very top of the Texas Panhandle is dealing with a potentially burgeoning controversy involving sexual harassment. Two top Perryton Independent School District administrators &#8212; Superintendent Robert Hall and Assistant Superintendent Keith Langfitt &#8212; have resigned. Both men had been accused of sexual harassment. They both were on paid administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to take a leap here and suggest that their resignations likely mean there had to be merit to the allegations that had been leveled against them.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the complaints remain sketchy. I hope the school district will reveal the nature of the allegations leveled against these two men. I am not suggesting that Perryton ISD officials reveal the names of the victims of the activity that&#8217;s being alleged.<\/p>\n<p>The community, though, would be well-served if it learns about what was going on in secret in a publicly funded institution that has such a direct impact on the lives of taxpayers &#8212; and their children.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexual harassment is in the air. Maybe it&#8217;s in the water. A one-time major-league Hollywood mogul&#8217;s career has been destroyed by allegations of his untoward behavior against women. A &#8220;Me Too&#8221; movement has emerged, with women coming forward to reveal their own exposure to sexual harassment and sexual assault. Now a school district at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sexual harassment hits all communities<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251,9],"tags":[7369,4237],"class_list":["post-25550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-local-news","tag-perryton-isd","tag-sexual-harassment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25553,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550\/revisions\/25553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}