Her calls come on the day more than 50 Swansea High students protested outside the school, calling out rape culture and demanding a teacher who made comments they said were akin to victim blaming is sacked.

The year 10 students had previously shared a video on Facebook of the teacher saying what a woman wears impacts on whether they get raped.

Ms Stevenson said how the Department of Education responds to this controversy will be really "telling about their commitment to respectful relationships".

"They have to be very serious around the consequences that flow from this kind of messaging in classrooms," she said.

"We know those kind of messages, that victim blaming contributes to an overall culture of violence against women and that is really unacceptable.

"They need to be very, very clear and very, very strong in the way they react to this, to say it is absolutely unacceptable."

Ms Stevenson agreed with Labor's Shadow Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Trish Doyle, that education and training about respectful relationships in the classroom and in the staff room, needed to be improved.

But she added leadership and accountability was required.

"It is one thing to educate people, it is another to hold them responsible and accountable for their behaviour."

Ms Stevenson said it was important for young people to lead and direct the conversation to create genuine change around violence.

The Illawarra Women's Health Centre runs outreach program for girls [Talk Like a Girl] and boys [Boys Talk} at four local high schools.

"It's been a really kind of powerful tool for opening up really honest conversations around what consent means and around treating each other respectfully and around the culture of rape and toxic masculinity and all that kind of stuff," she said.

"We find that it works really well because our social workers go and deliver and co-facilitate the program and it is very much around engaged activity and interaction.

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"Because the social workers are not teachers and they are not part of that education hierarchy, the conversation can be a lot more open and transparent and can kind of follow the conversation as the children direct it.

"Those conversations are very respectful but they are also really powerful because they are also learning from each other in a peer-supported way and we find the voices of young people are often the most powerful to their peers."

The Department of Education told the Mercury it was investigating the matter at Swansea High School. The teacher is currently not at the school.

Deputy Secretary, School Operations & Performance, Murat Dizdar, said "the department strongly rejects any assumptions relating to a rape culture in any school, with the alleged comments of its staff member completely inappropriate.

"We expect respectful conduct from students, staff, and school community members and will support anyone who brings disrespectful or harmful behaviour to our attention."