Abstract
The article discusses borders between proper and improper behavior of teachers towards high school students. Based on a survey of 1,237 students, we show what types of teacher behavior sexual harassment characteristics students consider unpleasant and how frequent their experiences with such behavior are.
One part of the survey instrument was inspired by SEQ which allows to compare Czech results with frequency and awareness of sexual harassment abroad. The comparison indicates about the same occurrence of sexual harassment in Czech high schools.
However, it also shows significantly lower sensitivity to its inappropriateness. This translates to higher tolerance of Czech students to teacher behavior with sexual harassment characteristics.
Girls were significantly more critical than boys. Students were also significantly more critical when behavior was considered in a concrete situational context.
Research findings have implications for forms of sexual harassment prevention and also open methodological questions concerning the use of so-called scripts.