It's so frustrating that many of us have been pointing these issues out, lamenting the lack of of proper SRE which addresses consent, abuse and pornography and only now is out making the mainstream media, in what I hope is a 'connecting the dots' explosion that won't die down until wider society recognise the problem.
Of course it is not just private schools. I read an article a few years ago about a NHS mental health trust, and it talks about the increasing amount of girls they were treating for mental health disorders. It explicitly cited the cause as being the mistreatment of these girls by their male peer group. Girls persuaded to share nudes of themselves, then being shared wider, or girls being filmed performing sex acts and those images been shared. These actions cause trauma in many girls that prevent them from being able to function. This article mostly included state schools and girls from more deprived backgrounds.
In the past decade we've given children access to a powerful tool which allows them to consume and share information that is far beyond their level of maturity. Many parents need to wake up to what is out there. The teenage boards on here are always full of the parents who don't parent, and instead defer to their own youth to excuse their teens doing what they want. Which is about as useful as conparing my youth to my late grandmother's youth.
Where schools do have a responsibility, I think, is to actually educate parents. And I know some schools do try. All schools need to not be squeamish about explaining to parents know what pornography looks like today, the kind of messages and language boys are using to talk about girls in their messages and what's app groups.
By the way - slightly related - has anyone seen that Warwick University female students have been staging a protest for at least a week calling on the university to do more to protect and support female students? It's not been widely reported. Let's not forget its not just schools. When the problems with male entitlement and abusive bahaviour aren't tackled during the school years, they move in to universities, and many universities have been guilty of (mus) handling allegations internally instead of involving the police