'Are you a MILF miss?' - The grim impact of porn in the classroom

Any teacher will tell you that behaviour has always been an issue in schools.

But more recently concern has been growing over the level of inappropriate behaviour and language children are using towards each other and school staff.

Just last month the Children's Commissioner for England issued a warning over children viewing pornography online, amid evidence of youngsters copying sex acts and abusive sexual behaviour.

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And now figures showing the number of pupils suspended and excluded from Greater Manchester schools for incidents of sexual misconduct, show just how big of a problem it's become.

Exclusions for sexual misconduct tripled from just three in the academic year 2020/21, to 11 in 2021/22 - with two of those being primary age pupils from schools in Rochdale.

Suspensions increased by almost 50% over that time, from 163 to 237, with 211 of those at secondary schools, 20 in primary, and the remaining six in special schools.

It's a bleak but unsurprising picture for Michael Conroy, whose company Men at Work trains school staff on talking to pupils, mostly boys, about these issues.

He set up his community interest company three years ago when still working as a secondary school teacher, something he'd done for 16 years.

And he did so because he 'could see the direction of travel', 'the issues that we were getting with lads, the massive impact of porn and smart phones'.

He said the incidents he and colleagues were dealing with were 'different to what it had ever been like before' and 'everything got more and more serious more quickly for more kids'.

"I started noticing the young men and boys showing the impact of the porn they were consuming," he