Trouble With Teaching Rape Law

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I honestly think that it is the school's fault for letting the students decide on what they get to learn and what they don’t get to learn. In the article from the New Yorker “The Trouble With Teaching Rape Law” law students are to afraid to study rape law and are asking their teachers to not include rape law on any of their exams because they feel like the material will scare them and make them perform poorly. The schools and teachers cannot just give into the student’s fear of what they are learning that isn’t going to help them, they are just making it worse and not preparing them for the real world. People in the real world aren’t going to give these students a second option because they are uncomfortable with what they are doing. Especially

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