England is bringing conversations about misogyny, respect, and healthy relationships into the classroom.
From September 2026, schools in England are following updated relationships and sex education guidance that places greater emphasis on consent, respect, sexism, misogyny, and harmful online influences.
The goal is to help boys recognize misogynistic attitudes, question harmful content they encounter online, and develop healthier views of women, girls, relationships, and masculinity.
The government has also announced a £16 million violence-prevention program designed to challenge harmful attitudes among young people before they develop into more serious behavior.
The move comes amid concerning survey findings: 50% of girls reported hearing misogynistic comments from other pupils in a single week, while 30% of students in Years 10 and 11 had recently heard comments that made them worry about girls’ safety.
Supporters believe schools have an important role in challenging harmful attitudes early and teaching young people to treat others with dignity and respect.
Do you support teaching children about misogyny and healthy masculinity in schools, or should these conversations primarily happen at home?
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This IS taught in schools to ALL genders. It is part of the PSHE curriculum and yes the basics should be taught by positive role modelling at home, but not every child has that unfortunately. Children have many different influences nowadays that are harmful and toxic. Positive relationship building education is only seen for the first time in school for many young people.
I mean at face value, this sounds like a good thing. So as I have no intention of deep diving on this, ill just say I hope it leads to better relationships for the kids going forward. Course, this discussion needs to be had with both genders.
Nothing that can't be taught at home by parents, other siblings, family and friends setting good examples AND checking bad stuff. School can back it up but the foundations to be laid at home
It is good to see a school reinstating practices that feminists declared to be outdated patriarchal ideals. Treating women with respect, protecting women from harm, acknowledging that it is a males responsibility and duty to be a protector are very much old world ideals.
Good, they need to learn to respect everyone, which I teach my teenage daughter. Girls can be very disrespectful as well. Preventing DV by teaching boys to vent their frustration in other ways than on others, is the key.
While teaching manners used to be done by role models in the home very few kids today have good role models, single parent homes and same sex homes often lean either to the left or to the right in the war of the sexes. Women today often take excess power over home issue ( or are forced into by non participation by in home fathers) and the imbalance is evident. Many of the youth today have parents who are too busy or to ill equipped due lack of parental guidance from their own parents. These classes could be the only training these kids get in good manners. Let them teach good etiquette and common decency to both sexes. Somebody needs to do it.
Because they were being taught how to protect themselves from boys and young men who were being taught by example that they were and are the boss..
Start early and teach them basic manners; applies to both boys and girls. Common courtesy costs you nothing and makes our world a kinder place.
Respect is a two way responsibility and should be taught at home but unfortunately misogyny and violence against women is on the rise and needs to be addressed and stamped out. Schools can play a part in this by ensuring boys and girls have good role models, and are taught about how harmful comments and behaviours affect others!
The pic with this is terrible, but the idea is good. Most boys don't want to be hateful and they do want to be successful in relationships. The advice offered by these "manosphere" influencers is often toxic, abusive, and makes them feel like victims when really, they would have much better chances of a happy and fulfilling partnership if they could simply learn to treat women as equally human and worthy of equal respect. Just don't be abusive. You don't have to bow down to us, just walk beside us. It's really not that hard. It does not have to be at all.