Teachers, students and support services say gender-based workshops are having an impact on respect in the classroom.
Blake Fuller is a 14-year-old boy who likes hunting, fishing and LandCruisers, and considers himself the class clown."Everyone jokes around and … it's fun sometimes," he says.He says his classmates became closer and kinder to each other after taking part in workshops designed to help improve emotional intelligence and support networks."It just made you feel good … just so everyone in the class knows what's been happening in your life," he says.
The Australian Child Maltreatment Study, which was released by a range of universities last year, reports girls are twice as likely to experience sexual abuse as boys. Upper Murray Family Care is directing some funding from the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing towards workshops for Year 8 students held by organisations Flourish Journey for girls and Man Cave for boys.
"And so in contexts where there's really healthy role models in front of boys, there's less adoption of the mentality that Andrew Tate brings across."Students are also encouraged to reach out to their teachers. Leading secondary school teacher Kate Sanderson agrees, saying the workshops bring out the best in the students."So rather than waiting for … mental health concerns or welfare concerns to sort of bubble up to the surface, we want to address it as a whole cohort so hopefully we can prevent some of these students falling into that space in the first place.
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