Times Up.

The time is up for authority figures at schools and educational institutions who misused their position to harass female students as allegations on social media picked steam and caused outrage. Some of the gravest allegations have been levelled against male teachers at the 1A1 branch of the Lahore Grammar School accused of sending objectionable pictures and messages to at least eight female teenage students with the students attaching screenshots of private pictures and texts as evidence. The school administration has also been accused of allegedly covering up the harassment and levelling blame on the students instead. After the allegations were made public the school fired the four employees but the question remains: is it too little too late

It is important that this should not be seen as a one: off incident and that the alleged harassers not be viewed as the sole culprits. If anything these recent events have shown the systematic way that abuse of power and a culture of harassment is perpetuated in schools and educational institutions. School administrations should receive a heavy share of the outrage as wellcomplaints against...