Online influencers such as Andrew Tate are fuelling an increase in sexism in the classroom, says a new survey from education union the NASUWT. It comes after the Netflix series Adolescence thrust concerns around incel culture into the spotlight.

Summary

Social media influencers are fuelling a rise in misogyny and sexism in the UK’s classrooms, according to teachers.

More than 5,800 teachers were polled… and nearly three in five (59%) said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils’ behaviour.

One teacher said she’d had 10-year-old boys “refuse to speak to [her]…because [she is] a woman”. Another said “the Andrew Tate phenomena had a huge impact on how [pupils] interacted with females and males they did not see as ‘masculine’”.

“There is an urgent need for concerted action… to safeguard all children and young people from the dangerous influence of far-right populists and extremists.”

    • Manticore@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      3 minutes ago

      Sure, but the children are people; they do not have the experience of wisdom to make choices and rely on adults to teach them wisdom from their experience.

      It’s not your job, but those kids are the ones paying for their parents’ value system, and so the adults teaching them aren’t teaching them well. Children are people, and are being let down. Theyre not kitset projects for parents.

      One day those people will be expected to make their own choices, and the only foundation they’ll have to decide with is what they’re taught now. It’s not your job, but it’s everybody’s civic responsibility to contribute to a healthier collective society, and children are a part of that.

    • el_bhm@lemm.eeEnglish
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      59 minutes ago

      If a psychopath has an influence over children in their formative years, it is your absolute responsibility to educate the kid and the parents.

    • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      This shitheaded take is how we ended up with the failing society that we have

    • AppleTea@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      part of being an adult is doing the work in front of you that needs doing, regardless of "ought"s "supposed to"s

      we all benefit from the next generation learning to treat others properly, regardless of our own parental status

    • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Actually when you live in a democracy it is. Or at least, if you don’t you still get the consequences when these kids start voting.