Girls missing lessons due to boys behaviour

[Babymamamama]

Wondering what the wise women of Mumsnet think of this. A secondary school which is known to have issues with boys behaviour towards girls (which school doesn’t?). So the decision is to have girl specific sessions (I assume to learn how to deal with this) which take place during timetabled day - meaning girls taken out of normal lessons. Weekly. Result is that girls miss out on learning in order to speak about “girl” issues while the males continue to benefit from all mainstream learning and don’t have to miss any timetabled lessons. Am I being over sensitive or shouldn’t the boys also have some equivalent gender based lessons on appropriate behaviour towards female fellow students? And miss out on their lessons too? I’m despairing a bit.

@ScreamingBeans

LoL sorry I mean OFSTED, an ad just popped up and distracted me.

I dread doing this in work emails

[In] my mind they should do parallel single sex lessons around consent, respect, boundaries etc etc. Rather than give the girls a “space” to talk about it…..that’s good too as an aside but not at the expense of their education. I think I’m going to have to address this.

I'm very angry on your behalf too, and am glad you are going to tackle it. How very backward does your thinking have to be to think that the solution is to deprive the victims of something important in order to teach them how to cope with the bully's bullying, whilst not teaching the bully how to y'know, NOT BE A BULLY or give them any sort of consequences!! I guess we know the head isn't a feminist then

@Babymamamama please update us with what response you receive.