Advice comes despite charity’s warning that social media figure is fuelling shocking growth of misogyny in schools
Teachers are being advised by the government not to discuss social media influencer, the “king of toxic masculinity”, with pupils – despite schools reporting a rising tide of misogyny and sexual harassment from boys as young as nine.
She is frustrated that officials at the Department for Education have been advising heads who reach out for help not to encourage discussion of Tate’s views in personal, social and health education lessons, and are refusing to offer any training or resources. The school commissioned Diversify to run three workshops with pupils on misogyny and consent, during which a number of boys mentioned Tate and said they could not see any problem with his views. On Cunningham’s advice, the school reported the sexual abuse to their local authority child safeguarding team, but they have received no response.
The teacher phoned the DfE helpline in March asking for resources and support for staff training on tackling Tate and online misogyny. She said she was told there was currently no resource or training available and that “this is merely another example of a social media trend, which will go away as others have”.
She said an added complexity for schools trying to stamp out misogyny is that many boys say their dads think Tate is great.that after he disciplined a male pupil for using explicitly misogynistic language to female classmates, and explained that the school had a zero tolerance for that sort of behaviour, the boy’s father came in to complain.
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