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'For Grace*, 2023 should have been the pinnacle of her teaching career.
Five years after graduating university, she was settling into a full-term
contract at her "dream job" on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, teaching at the
high school she had attended growing up.
"I'd travelled around, I'd come back, and I'd settled in a nice spot. So I
thought it was going to be a really good thing for me," the 30-year-old told
7.30.
But by the middle of the year, Grace's teaching career was over.
During her time as a relief teacher in 2022, she noticed more boys talking
about Andrew Tate in class.
It was much more prevalent when she started teaching media studies to 15 and
16-year-olds last year.
"One of them was speaking about how much they love Andrew Tate. And I had just
said, 'Look, I don't want to hear that name in this classroom.' I could see
some of the girls rolling their eyes and sighing," she said.
The British-American former kickboxer has accumulated millions of followers on
social media for preaching a message of ultra-masculinity, and in the past he
has described himself as a sexist and a misogynist.
Mr Tate's money-making subscription channels have been pulled from YouTube and
other platforms, with TikTok classifying his ideology as "hateful".
Both he and his brother Tristan are currently barred from leaving Romania,
where they're set to stand trial on human trafficking charges. They also face
extradition to the UK to face charges of sexual aggression.
Still, he has accumulated many fans.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
