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.”
Society when kids are no longer wearing a uniform, have the same haircut, answer with a stoic “yes madam” and can be beaten into submission in school.
This is a problem that needs to be dealt with with better schooling. More teachers and new and updated curricula.
Yes, maybe parents are getting “worse” or kids are less “behaved”, but what would it matter?
Also I really doubt it. Kids probably have more things to deal with and struggle with that. Same goes for parents I think.
“Society when kids are no longer … beaten into submission” is exactly the take I needed to get my morning going!
I meant that as it was in the past. Obviously it’s bad. Not saying we should go back
As I’m collecting downvotes I realize that my post can be read as a defense of kids that like andrew tate.
Fuck tate and all other rightwinger fascists.
I meant to direct my comment at people who say “kids these days are bad”.
I don’t know about other downvoters, but i downvoted you because you said kids should be beaten into submission at school. Corporal punishment is the refuge of bad parents and it’s not a teacher’s job to harm your children that way. There is not a single justifiable reason that you need to be physically violent with a child to educate them. In fact, that only makes it worse. You either raise a fearful child or a hateful one. Either way, in my book, it’s child abuse and you were calling for it.
And boy would i cause all sorts of sky falling down trouble on the poor soul that decided to physically assault my child, undoing my job of teaching that violence is only a tool of self defense. I suffered significant corporal punishment growing up and i can guarantee it improved my life in no way.
Wtf I don’t condone that archaic behavior. I meant that’s why kids behaved in the old days, because they had to, or else.
Nowadays we need better schooling.
That’s how I meant it.
It’s kind of weird people are taking that literally.
Also just a weird is how the internet predominantly lays the blame solely on parents. And people love to absolve everyone else especially teachers of any childhood development responsibilities. LIke the saying goes, ‘it takes a village’. Teachers are as much parents as anyone else in the village. The aunts/uncles, neighbors, corner store clerk, mailman, police officer. When kids act up, the adults have to correct it.
Yet the internet generally just glares at the parents. Then again it stands to reason parents or broadly speaking people who actively engage in parenting roles aren’t chronically online. They’re actually raising children.
People wonder why things are the way they are. Maybe it’s because the village has absconded.
If I had kids I should damn well hope they get a beating at school when they step out of line. Figuratively of course. Because. The internet seems to have lost all reading comprehension. Maybe they weren’t beat enough at school either… Figuratively I mean.
I am sorry but to me this reads as if you want kids to be beaten