School teachers in the United Kingdom are creating lesson plans to re-educate children who are “brainwashed” by the toxic influencer Andrew Tate, local media reported.
The 36-year-old British American, who is a self-described misogynist, is placed in police custody in Romania along with his brother over human trafficking and organised crime charges.
Tate, who is also a former kickboxer, enjoys a massive fan following, mostly teens, on social media platforms. Teachers in the UK say he is hugely popular among the students and fear that his arrest, which has further propelled his popularity, may have an adverse effect on the kids.
Some schools have even started holding special assemblies, or using personal social and health education lessons to encourage students to question the misogynistic content he puts out.
Their concern turned out to be a nightmare when held special lessons on Tate.
Recently, a school in south London gave a presentation to a group of 14-year-olds after teachers became concerned about the students’ getting influenced by Tate, reports the Sunday Times newspaper.
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The students, around 30, were reportedly asked questions like “Do we think he [Tate] is still harmless?” and “What happens when we take in his messages?”
The discussion turned into a heated debate about rape, with 10 of the students believing that women are responsible for assaults on them— a view propagated by Tate.
Later, the male teacher asked the students how they would feel if one of their family members was a rape victim.
“At that point, a lot of the boys changed their tones when I put their mother or sister in that spot, but it was worrying that a few core kids didn’t and still said they would be to blame,” the teacher, who spoke anonymously, told The Times.A female teacher at another British school reported to the newspaper that some students disregarded their final exams because they believed they could make money online, as did Andrew Tate.
Tate’s rise to notoriety has been covered in lessons by the Ridgway Education Trust, which runs three public schools in Oxfordshire.
Gohar Khan, the trust’s director of ethos, said, “Every school should be addressing the Tate issue.” “Up until last year, I was hesitant to give him publicity, but students and staff have approached me and asked why we aren’t talking about this,” she said.
In the lessons, according to Khan, they cover “why Tate has been in the news lately, for his arrest in Romania on charges of human trafficking and accusations of rape.”
“Our students are hearing all of this, and I feel that they need to hear it from what I feel are reliable sources,” he continued.
Tate’s first foray into the spotlight occurred in 2016 when he participated as a contestant on “Big Brother” in the UK from where he was disqualified after he allegedly assaulting a woman.
Tate claimed the video was edited and “a total lie trying to make me look bad,” according to the BBC.
Tate was banned from Twitter in 2017 at the height of the Harvey Weinstein allegations for suggesting that women should “bear responsibility” for being assaulted.
With outrageous remarks about women’s intelligence and calling them “intrinsically lazy,” Tate’s popularity soared.
He is also a fervent believer that men should have “authority” over women when they are in a relationship.
In Romania last month, Tate, his brother Tristan, and two other men were detained on suspicion of leading a criminal gang that attracted women and held them for exploitation.
When Romanian authorities searched his properties, they found evidence that Tate and his brother had allegedly exploited six women who had been held in some of his opulent homes like virtual prisoners. On December 30, he was given the order to spend the next 30 days in a Romanian jail, while the investigation is still underway.
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