Andrew Tate: How schools are tackling his influence

Intelligent, articulate and disciplined - that's however secondary schoolhouse teacher Charlotte Carson describes Andrew Tate, the online influencer who is simply a relation exemplary to galore of the boys astatine her schoolhouse successful Belfast.

But the occupation is, she says, Andrew Tate is besides pathetic, insecure, and promotes "Taliban beliefs" astir however to dainty women.

Schools crossed the UK are encountering expanding numbers of pupils who respect Tate - and truthful teachers are having to enactment retired however to respond.

Some are actively putting retired guidance connected however to speech astir him, arsenic portion of a concerted effort to tackle his influence.

Tate, a erstwhile kickboxer, has millions of online followers - contempt being banned from sites including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube for misogynistic comments.

He's presently detained successful Romania, alongside his member Tristan, arsenic portion of an probe into allegations of quality trafficking and rape - which they some deny.

"A batch of the boys tin spot that there's parts of Andrew Tate that they respect and admire, and past there's parts that they don't - they cognize that helium says a batch of unspeakable things," says Ms Carson, 46, who teaches Learning for Life and Work - Northern Ireland's equivalent of PSHE successful England's schools.

"But besides he's glamorous, he's bully looking, helium does tons of things that they deliberation are cool."

She gives the illustration of an representation of Tate surrounded by flashy cars, portion smoking a cigar - Ms Carson and chap teachers find it a "joke", astir a "cartoon" of "pathetic insecurity" - but immoderate of her pupils privation to support everything helium stands for.

"They said yes. They said: 'Miss, if idiosyncratic successful your household commits a crime, you inactive emotion them.'"

Ms Carson says the pupil yet backtracked, and agreed they didn't rather spot Tate arsenic household - but the kneejerk absorption possibly shows the tendency to support his status.

"We each privation to clasp our icons up distant from the dirt," says Ms Carson, who founded a task successful 2016 to assistance schools found feminist societies.

Ms Carson volition proceed to situation her pupils astir the issues raised by Tate's content, but says parents person a work to amended their children too.

"Parents request to aftermath up to the information that if they don't thatch their children astir the world, past Andrew Tate will."

Tate has not responded to the BBC's petition for a comment.

Deputy caput Sarah Longville says unit astatine the Royal Grammar School successful Newcastle person been educating their pupils astir gender-based unit for years, and Tate's contented isn't truly thing caller - but successful the caller schoolhouse word they person "had to admit that helium was having a batch of power connected the students".

As good arsenic teachers starring discussions successful PSHE lessons astir Tate's "manipulative behaviour", the schoolhouse has sent proposal to parents astir however to speech astir the influencer with their children.

Most of what Ms Longville sees successful her pupils is simply an "irritating" adulation of Tate's manner - but sometimes his power has been much serious.

"We person had to woody with the usage of rather beardown words, specified arsenic 'rape', being utilized without younger children knowing the seriousness of that word, the powerfulness of that word," she says.

"Whether that's Tate oregon not, I would fishy [he] perchance has an influence.

"They're not atrocious children, they're conscionable utilizing connection that they don't understand."

St Dunstan's, a fee-paying schoolhouse successful Catford, London, has drawn up full lessons focused connected Tate, with contented tailored to antithetic property groups.

Year 8s mightiness get a acquisition connected what stereotypes are and wherever they travel from, portion older students volition instrumentality portion successful much of a discussion-based acquisition astir Tate.

Deputy caput Jonathan Holmes told the BBC: "We find retired what the kids cognize [about him] first, and past we would privation to facilitate treatment astir the interaction of echo chambers, the interaction of the consciousness of those views online being endorsed, giving the quality that they're being endorsed by rather a wide assemblage - erstwhile really it's the lawsuit that they're not - and getting them to recognize the credibility of those views."

When Labour asked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak connected Wednesday however schools should tackle pupils being "brainwashed" by Tate, helium pointed to the Online Safety Bill, designed to guarantee tech firms enforce property limits to support children from harmful online material.

The Department for Education says it has besides published guidance for schools successful England connected however to beryllium alert to issues specified arsenic misogyny and sex stereotypes.

Schools are besides trying to absorption connected what different relation models pupils could look for.

"There are truthful galore perfectly unthinkable men who are unthinkable relation models to young people. You look astatine radical similar Marcus Rashford who is successful, who's healthy, who has got unthinkable levels of empathy and understanding," Helen Hinde, adjunct caput astatine Meols Cop High School, successful Southport, tells BBC 5Live.

"We've each got to enactment collaboratively and collectively to enactment young men to reframe masculinity - distant from this toxic ideology that's presented by the likes of Tate."

It's been a rollercoaster twelvemonth connected societal media for Andrew Tate.

His notoriety snowballed aft teenagers started spotting videos of him, immoderate promoting misogyny and targeting women, each implicit their societal media feeds backmost successful the summer.

So if you deliberation your kid mightiness person been sucked successful by videos similar this connected their societal media feeds, what tin you do?

Experts successful kid payment archer maine the astir important happening is that parents speech to their children astir what's being served up to them online - and to inquire astir influencers similar Tate.

Discuss however the algorithm works, and its inclination to urge emotive and reactive content. Just due to the fact that a video is being pushed to your provender by automated systems connected societal media doesn't mean you person to hold with oregon adjacent similar what you're seeing.

Encourage them to question everything they're seeing online, and wherever it's travel from - particularly erstwhile it feels similar its deliberately being pushed to them.

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