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By Poppy Wood, Education Editor at The Telegraph
Private school appoints ‘chair of compassion’ to reduce impact of harmful influencers such as Andrew Tate
A leading public boarding school has appointed a “chair of compassion” to clamp down on cancel culture.
Wellington College in Berkshire said it created the new role to help pupils learn to “disagree agreeably” and to lessen the influence of harmful social media figures such as Andrew Tate.
The role will build on existing wellbeing lessons, which were introduced to the school timetable in 2006 by former headmaster Sir Anthony Seldon in response to bullying claims.
James Dahl, the school’s current headmaster, told The Telegraph that his decision to appoint a “chair of compassion” reflected the increasingly “divisive nature of the world in which we live, cancel culture, the inability of young people, I think, to be able to disagree agreeably, for them to judge far too quickly in their online lives”.
Naima Charlier, a teacher at Wellington College, has been appointed to help pupils turn personal troubles into “teachable moments in and around empathy”. She will work across various existing areas of the school curriculum, including its respectful relationships programme, global citizenship lessons, chapel services and in subjects such as English and history.
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