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What exactly is the #MeToo message for schools?

25 January 2018

8:08 AM

25 January 2018

8:08 AM

Earlier this week, NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes backed discussion of the “anti-sexual harassment movement” #MeToo in classrooms. Well, that’s how SBS described it. Insert your own definition as appropriate.

And that is entirely my point.

What is the message of the #MeToo movement – and how precisely is Stokes suggesting teachers distil it?

Imagine if there was a buzzing new political movement, which had snowballed over several months and was morphing into an unpredictable trail of destruction.

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