Applies to Employees

• This was unsettled in most Circuits
• Enter Title VII

Commentary notes that “severe or pervasive” definition (Title VII) shouldn’t apply because elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools are unlike the adult workplace. (Pages 43-44)

• Davis – 5th grade students
• Instead - "severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive"

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