Australia: Teachers warn of sexual harassment, sexism, misogyny in classrooms

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'Teaching has remained a predominantly female profession.

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority said seven out of every 10 teachers identified as female, a number that increased to more than eight out of every 10 in primary school ranks.

There have been ongoing concerns about the rise of misogyny in Australian classrooms, led by online influencers such as Andrew Tate.
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From having a 16-year-old female student tell a male classmate that, "Miss wants to f*ck you", to Year 9 students projecting pornography on a whiteboard behind her while she took the roll, Ms Duffus said she had seen it all.

She said at times it made her feel like an emotional prostitute.

"I was accepting large sums of money to be the teenagers’ punching bag for the day," she said in an essay on her experience.

"By failing to come down hard on their sexist behaviour — because I didn’t know their names, lacked access to their electronic records, or simply couldn’t be bothered — I was somehow complicit in a system that was making teachers’ lives worse."'