UK: Top private school offers 'healthy masculinity' workshops for parents to combat Andrew Tate

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'A top private school is offering ‘healthy masculinity’ workshops for parents to help them combat toxic online influencers such as Andrew Tate.

The Royal Hospital School (RHS) in Suffolk is running 90 minute sessions to help families talk to their sons about resisting dark messages from the web.

Irfan Latif, headmaster of the 300-year-old institution, said private schools have a ‘responsibility’ to counter misogynistic narratives.

And he advocated promoting positive male role models such as Atticus Finch, the hero of To Kill a Mockingbird, as an ‘alternative’ to harmful figures on social media.

RHS, which charges up to £46,000 a year for boarders and is part of the elite HMC private schools group, was the alma mater of hero explorer Ernest Joyce.

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Mr Latif said: ‘We have not had any particular issues or incidents at RHS, but as educators we have a duty to be proactive.

‘The workshops are about equipping our pupils, and their parents, to navigate the pressures of modern masculinity before problems arise.’

Writing in Independent School Management Plus, Mr Latif said the issue of ‘toxic masculinity’ poses ‘significant challenges for schools’.'