I seen it happen. A MALE teacher sexually touched a female student. The female student yelled and smack the teacher. Guess who gotten written up and kick out of the school? The student, despite being sexuality harassed. Covering the damn teacher's ass despite his past sexual harassment. A bunch of bullshit!
Okay, after reading some of the post, Cynthia, it seems that you have told your parents and the parents told your school board about the teacher hitting you and the teachers playing favors.
That's good.
Now, it also seems that the school board ain't doing shit. That's bad. Get in contact with the state and their education department and tell them what is going down. If the city's school system won't step in, I swear on my life the state's education board WILL! And if the state don't do shit, time to let the federal education department do the job! No student should go through that shit.
About the touching: I can see the whole no kissing or groping deal. However, high-fives, handshakes, shoulder tapping? What in the hell? How backward is your teacher and the school?