It's about pupils being safe and being safe to be around. “And I always tell staff to look at it foremost from a safeguarding perspective.
"It's about them having clear guidelines and boundaries,” Michael adds. Instead, he believes the focus should be on having a clear and ongoing dialogue about such behaviours and giving children the chance to explore and understand when lines are crossed. "They'll be at home probably looking at more porn."Īnd he says it's important to recognise that in many cases, 'it's not the child's fault'. "No work will be done with those boys," he said. Michael believes that exclusion is not the answer, particularly permanently, when it comes to nipping such behaviours in the bud.
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"We all know it's overwhelmingly male to female, but not knowing the full scale of the problem is pretty useless." "The figures don't say who has done what to who, which is a real problem, because if we can't name the problem, how can we work out a solution. Really the number is probably a lot higher. "But then you also get exclusions or suspensions for verbal abuse towards an adult, now that could be sexualised commentary, or there's misuse of digital technology, that could be upskirting.
"We don't really know what these incidents of sexual misconduct include," he said. He says he fears the figures are just the tip of the iceberg as other reasons given for exclusions could also amount to sexual misconduct. Michael helps train teachers, social workers and youth workers, and has recently been working with Manchester Women's Aid to deliver a programme to teenage boys in Manchester schools. It's all about trying to have the power and he didn't think she should be able to tell him what to do.” "And then there was the student leaving the letters 'MMAS' at the bottom of his work and his teacher found out it meant 'make me a sandwich'. "He'd just laugh and say 'I'm not listening to a woman, women are only good for two things, sex and cooking'," said Michael.
He says over his 16 years as a teacher and working on his training programmes, he has heard of incidents such as a 10-year-old pupil laughing every time a female member of staff tried to speak to him. "I noticed a steady and obvious increase in general levels of disrespect and sexual language." "The way they were talking to girls and female teachers. "I started noticing the young men and boys showing the impact of the porn they were consuming," Michael explained. He said the levels of behaviour he experienced were 'different to what it had ever been like before' and 'everything got more and more serious more quickly for more kids'. Michael Conroy, whose company Men at Work trains school staff on talking to pupils, mostly boys, about inappropriate behaviour, told the M.E.N’s Emma Gill that he set up his company three years ago whilst working as a secondary school teacher after noticing ‘the direction of travel' in issues.
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