He believes the school's new programme will have a major positive influence on boys, as they grow into men and form relationships. That is a good start. But our educators have a responsibility to do more.
Despite repeated calls for such issues to be part of a compulsory sex education curriculum, the Education Minister does not see the need to intervene.
Hekia Parata says that sex education is "first and foremost a parental, family and whanau responsibility" and that schools can draw up their own programmes as they see fit.
Yet the events of recent weeks - and in fact years - show, it is time that attitude changed. Not least of all because our young people are demanding it.
This month, hundreds of outraged teens marched on Parliament to protest against rape culture in the aftermath of deplorable social media comments from Wellington College students.
And the teens we spoke to for our feature today say rape culture is real. And it is not being talked about.
That must change. We owe it to our young people.
