P.H. v. The School District of Kansas City, Missouri

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• concluding that there was no actual knowledge, even though a school received complaints that a teacher “was spending too much time” with a student
• determining that complaints that could be construed as “showing favoritism” but that did not “voice[] any suspicions of sexual abuse” were insufficient to establish knowledge of such abuse
• explaining that there is no Title IX liability when a school fails “to react to teacher- student harassment of which it should have known”
• stating that “[i]t is well- settled that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the liberty interest of a child in public school from sexual abuse”
• stating that “[i]t is well- settled that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the liberty interest of a child in public school from sexual abuse”
• explaining that without reports of sexual contact or suspected sexual contact between teacher and student, the teacher’s “conduct of spending too much time with [the student] causing [the student] to be absent from or tardy to classes” did not establish actual notice of ongoing sexual abuse

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