19/12/2025
I’m struggling to understand the logic here.
Teachers will be given training to spot and tackle misogyny in the classroom. Teachers again being diverted off on some magical world of adventure instead of actually teaching.
Teaching 11-year-old boys about misogyny so they can be warned not to be misogynistic feels completely backwards.
You don’t prevent harmful ideas by introducing them. You don’t reduce bad behaviour by labelling kids before they’ve even shown it. And you don’t build respect by treating boys as problems-in-waiting.
It’s a basic principle of psychology, what you repeatedly focus on and frame gets activated and normalised. Poorly designed “awareness” programs don’t neutralise behaviour, they risk embedding it.
If the goal is less violence and more respect, wouldn’t the answer be better role models, stronger families, accountability when harm actually happens, and teaching empathy as a universal value, not ideological courses aimed at children?
This doesn’t feel like safeguarding. It feels like social engineering, and children shouldn’t be the testing ground.
Typical Labour.
The measure is part of the government's strategy to tackle violence against women and girls in England.
