My question involves civil rights in the State of: Tennessee
I'm a freshman in high school, and I wonder if there's anything I can do about my school. Throughout the year they have caused me severe emotional distress. At the beginning of the year, it was small things, but its progressed.
In February, I was raped by a senior, after school one day. I came to school the next day and told the school security guard, who brought it to the counselor and principal. They didn't want to deal with it, or be held liable, so they had me psychiatrically hospitalized, saying I was suicidal and unsafe around myself - which I have never done anything to suggest that. The people at the hospital kept me less than the usual minimum, because they knew that this wasn't accurate. When I came back to school, they wouldn't let me reenter with out developing a "safety plan", not to keep me safe from the boy, but to keep me safe from myself. Another condition of me staying at school was I had to sign a contract saying I wouldn't discuss what had happened with ANYONE, inside of school, or out.
In April, as I was walking from school to a class I was taking about a mile from school, he raped me again. I told the teacher, as I was bleeding and had several physical injuries, and she brought it to the school. My school said it was my fault because I should have been more careful, and been smart enough to recognize the situation. No one ever called the police, and my mother wouldn't take me to an emergency room.
A few weeks later, my school developed a new safety plan, which will forever be in my file, that states "students is sexually innappropriate to include engaging in sexual intercourse during school, and making allegations against rape."
I now am walked every where I go, and constantly supervised. The boy graduates tomorrow, and no action was ever taken against him.
What can I do?

