Australian teachers have opened up about the appalling, widespread sexual behaviours of students as young as seven, with claims the situation is at ‘crisis point’.
The nation’s educators have described students in primary school being coerced into sending nudes of themselves, talking about rape fantasies and making sexual noises in class.
More than 1000 teachers responded to a national survey, with the a report analysing the results due to be released on Monday. The Sexual Harassment of Teachers report is being published by Collective Shout, a movement against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls, and parenting educator Maggie Dent.
Teachers Routinely Sexually Harassed By Students
The survey revealed that Australian teachers, particularly females, are being subjected to routine sexual harassment by male students. This included being propositioned, threatened with rape, subjected to sexist slurs and mimicking of sex acts seen in pornography.
One teacher revealed: “I had a student tell his girlfriend about his rape fantasies involving me. He also threatened to rape his girlfriend if she told anyone.”
Teachers revealed students are sexually moaning, asking for nudes and intimidating them as they try and teach in classrooms.
“Moaning is a big problem. Even ‘good’ kids are doing it to win favour with others…The moaning I’ve heard was from boys,” one teacher revealed.
Almost half of the 1000 teachers surveyed have experienced sexual harassment within a school. A similar number had witnessed a colleague being sexually harassed within a school.
Educators also revealed that they didn’t feel safe in the classroom after being sexually harassed, with one confessing:
“[As a teacher I have] never felt so drained, mentally and emotionally, in the past two years dealing with the increase of this behaviour with no school supports in place.”
There’s also an alarming number of sexual harassment being perpetrated by students in primary school.
“Year 5 and 6 students sending nudes after being continually asked to do so – photos then being passed around to other boys,” a teacher revealed.
Teachers indicated that children in year two has accessed and shared pornographic content. The educators are concerned that the behaviour is often dismissed.
“Too many times I’ve seen male students get away with a warning for really inappropriate sexual behaviour towards female students because ‘they’re too young, just boys being boys…’”
In the wake of the survey findings, Collective Shout is urging action including radical intervention and a national, uniform response.
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