Shocking accounts of abuse describe an epidemic that schools are failing to take seriously – and it’s not just male pupils who are a problem
For Maya, sexual harassment started in the very first week on the job. A newly qualified teacher, she had been hired by a prestigious London state secondary school. But what might have been an exciting first post quickly unravelled, thanks to a school-wide culture of misogyny thinly veiled as “banter”, she says, and senior colleagues who began making inappropriate comments about her body.
“The leadership would say horrendous things that made female members of staff so uncomfortable: [such as] ‘your tits look nice in that top’. I remember a meeting with one of them once, who said things every few sentences, such as ‘if I wasn’t a married man’ or ‘if I was a bit younger you’d be my type’.”
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