St Kevin’s female teacher offered counselling after boys take part in lewd TikTok challenge

A group of year 11 boys from St Kevin’s College were caught in a lewd TikTok challenge which left a female teacher in need of counselling.

Teachers say St Kevin’s College has reached “a new low” after boys were caught in a lewd TikTok challenge.

Teachers say St Kevin’s College has reached “a new low” after boys were caught in a lewd TikTok challenge resulting in a female teacher receiving counselling.

Multiple sources have told the Herald Sun the acts involved sexualised behaviour, causing widespread concern throughout the teaching body.

One source told the Herald Sun the acts, which involved boys in a year 11 class on Monday, were part of an ongoing wider challenge linked to a dare wheel used by senior footballers at the school.

“Staff who know about it are in total shock and disbelief,” one source said.

“The dare craze that has taken off since the dare wheel was exposed. There was no consequence for the boys involved. These year 11 boys are now trying to outdo what they saw the Year 12s do. They think it’s a big joke.”

Another said it was “ a new low for the school”.

A spokesman for St Kevin’s College said there was “an incident in a classroom on Monday where a teacher reported student behaviour to pastoral staff which is under review in line with the College’s Student Behaviour Support Guidelines”.

“The teacher has been, and continues to be, supported throughout the process.”

It comes as the Independent Education Union Victoria is calling for more to be done to address misogyny, harassment and violence against women in educational settings and elsewhere.

In a recent bulletin to teachers, the union notes that “there has been escalating violence against female teachers in schools”.

“While political leaders debate what measures can make society safer for women, we can immediately make a difference for teachers in classrooms by tackling student conduct in the classroom,” the union said.

Recent research from Monash University based on interviews with 30 women teachers, found the resurgence of male supremacy and the advancement of toxic masculinity in Australian schools.

The interviews uncovered what researchers Dr Stephanie Wescott and Professor Steven Roberts called a “disturbing pattern of sustained sexual harassment, sexism and misogyny perpetrated by boys, signalling a worrying shift in gender dynamics within school environments”.