Wasn't Brittany Actually Harrased?

Well...he really didn't make her strip. The whole thing was for her to imagine herself being alone and doing something she would do in private. So, in a way, it was sort of her choice to strip in front of everyone.

I do think that he should have gotten in trouble for not trying to stop it

I also think the boyfriend was harsh but for good reason. In a way, all of them lied.

I don't think he ment for her to start doing *that* on mid stage.

Thats the whole point of it! He was a pervert! He was enjoying watching her strip. He had his wife wear a school girls dress and read him the essay a girl wrote him in detention!

Thats the irony. They were lying, but in actual fact they were right on the ball.

I thought so too, but I don't know if that was real or not. Whether it went as far as she said on the stand.

Mr Anderson didn't actually make Brittany do that... he asked her to think of something she does when alone...blah blah.. and although he probably would have loved to have seen it, he never directly asked her to do it. It was clear that he got turned on by the girls, but he didn't blatantly act on it. We only see him "acting on it" with his wife. I find it more bizarre that Brittany even considered doing that in the first place... I mean it'd take a hell of a lot more persuasion than "pretend the class and I are not here", to convince any normal person of doing that in class.

"It was not forced on her."

It could be interpreted as that, and if it was it wouldn't be entirely wrong. She wasn't FORCED, but at the end when she got uncomfortable and tried to leave, Mr. Anderson told her to continue doing what she was doing... and that right there is definitely sexual harassment, to one degree or another.

I don't think it was really harrasment. Mr. Anderson didn't know that Brittney was going to do that. But he not only didn't stop her but asked her to continue. Which was inappropriate. He is the adult there. And there are hints that he has crossed lines (although not actual molestation) when the principal tells him to behave himself. That doesn't mean he molests girls, though. Those are things that the school should have payed attention to not the courts.

Like Kimberly said, he had already doused himself with gasoline. They just lit the match. I don't think anyone can claim that Mr. Anderson didn't have some questionable thoughts. But that doesn't make him a criminal.

I think realistically, he would have (and should have) gotten fired anyway. Although it does seem that his wife left him.

But yeah, I'd consider that totally inappropriate - he may not have suggested she touch herself precisely (although if anyone can come up with something else he meant, considering that what he told her and that he specifically set his idea as being her bedroom, by all means share) but he bullied her using her authority into doing it in the first place; he didn't stop her, showing that she was doing exactly as he had in mind; and more importantly, when she did want to stop, he told her to keep going (if he was shocked at her like people have suggested, this is when he would have said 'I didn't mean you touch yourself', presumably.)
(Plus, the headteacher knew that he couldn't be trusted with the girls and warns him to behave, which suggests that the guy really was a pervert - even his boss knows!)

And the boyfriend was a total heel, throughout the movie. I couldn't believe the girls were fighting over some Victorian minded freak like him.