From the classroom to the locker room: nine days of ‘deeply disturbing’ sexual assault allegations shake Australia

Teachers told Guardian Australia that boys can bark at female teachers and post degrading content. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

For the fourth time that week, youth advocate and educator Daniel Principe stood in a classroom and asked the same question: Are female teachers respected as much as male ones?

“The boys unanimously said no,” Principe says.