Should We Teach About Consent In K-12? Brett Kavanaugh's Home State Says Yes
More states are requiring that children learn about consent and healthy relationships, and students themselves are among those pushing for change.
When the Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump, along with sexual assault stories involving Brock Turner and Bill Cosby, hit the news back in 2016, a middle school student in Maryland named Maeve Sanford-Kelly was listening.
"I was frankly really distraught," she recalls. "I felt powerless. I assumed that this was what happened, that sexual harassment and sexual assault was a thing in our society and it wasn't going to change because it was part of the power structure."
Her mother had an idea that might help. Ariana Kelly, a Democrat,
