Nick Gallop, Head of Stamford School comments on the ?Everyone?s Invited? social media movement, the need for schools and parents to work towards a more effective partnership, and the importance of schools promoting mutually respectful relationships amongst their students

An issue that has rightly dominated the front pages and the airtime of all media outlets for several weeks feels as though it has already slipped some way down the news agenda. It is too important for that. The topic is acutely sensitive and the subject-matter complex and emotionally charged. There is the capacity to cause offence; to over- or understate the extent of the problem. To be accused of downplaying or of amplifying; to overreact or to ?take sides?.  To see in talking ? or in writing ? about the issue the looming prospect of misstep or error. In scanning the further landscape, to stand accused of overlooking problems closer to home. Far easier, surely, to remain quietly within a pack. However, the unambiguous truth of the matter is that misogynistic behaviour is completely unacceptable. And that schools can do more, with an effective partnership with parents, to challenge and to stop it. If nothing else, schools are places of learning. As well as the joys of achievement, progress, improvement and success, we deal on a daily basis with mistakes, misbehaviour, waywardness and worse.  While we could stand back from the edge and point a finger at a societal problem, we could also redouble our eff...