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Boys and books: How do you get them together?
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2007-12-31 21:37
Story here. Excerpt:
'According to Education Minnesota, the teachers' union, the percentage of male teachers in Minnesota has decreased from 43 percent in 1980 to 29 percent in 2005. That's why finding books for boys is a problem.
Female teachers and librarians don't gravitate toward the books that boys like, which Baxter says are about "disasters, wild animals, spies, machines, dinosaurs, and creepy-crawly things."
Showing boys male reading role models also helps catch boys' interest. In Apple Valley, two female teachers host the book club, but each month a different male teacher reads to the club.
Theresa Back, one of the female teachers that started the club, said that boys interact well with the male leaders. "We just didn't have the 'boy connection,' " she said about the female teachers.'
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Content is important but
Content is important but timing is also. Boys need to learn to read when they are developmentally ready and not before. Girls are ready to read at an earlier age than boys and when you try to teach reading to boys and girls of the same early age the girls succeed and the boys don't do as well and naturally lose interest. Most of us prefer to avoid things where we have not done well. Therefore reading gets avoided. This is the beauty of single sex classrooms since boys and girls can learn at a pace that suits their biology and psychology. There is also variation between different boys and their readiness to read but the variations are considerably less than the sex differences and individual adjustment is easier.
Curiosity
I always wondered in regards to all the issues we support as MRA's, which issue is most important for you guys. Now granted, they're all important but I'll list the most important for me and you guys can offer some insight. I'm sure I missed a few, if that's the case please add something I missed. I also realize many of these issues are in many ways connected with each other.
[This is just a list, I'm not rating them 1-10]
1. Chilvarious politicians and chivalry in general
2. Boys education
3. RADAR
4. Media male bashing
5. Feminist misandry and propaganda.
6. child custody / fathers rights
7. Judicial leniency for female criminals
8. Longevity gap / mens health
9. The lack of integrity for a mans genitals [ie: circumcision]
10. Misandry ingrained in our culture (similar to #5)
11. The lack of enlightenment men and women have towards the issues of importance.
12. Anthony's poor grammar skills. (couldn't resist that one.)
Anthony
p.s.
I would also like to see Matt's perspective.
My off the cuff list of top
My off the cuff list of top issues.
1.Rape hysteria, charging innocent men,and not charging false accussers.
not only not charging them but not even telling them very sternly, don't do it anymore.
2. RADAR causes ...abusing domestic violence hysteria, to falselly accuse innocent men, and police manipulation of who the aggressor is.
3.Not recognising and in effect not helping violent women learn non-violent behavior.
4. media "Lace Curtain". We need to recognise the most absurb offenders, and correct missinformation as we deem appropriate.
Let me add something
Which individual who supports our movement has the most logic, intellect, and devotion towards our cause? Essentially, who do respect the most. I'm in a very curious mood today. I also think it creates productive conversation.
Anthony
Anthony, you should do a
Anthony, you should do a more formal survey and ask MRA's to fill it out.
Boys already read books.
They just don't like being indoctrinated into pro-female ideology while attending school. The problem isn't that boys are dumb, its that women are raising boys without fathers and thus don't instill values and responsibility in them. Women never had to take responsibility for their fuck-ups and they can't give what they themselves don't adhere to.
Also most schools are focused on girls 99.9% of the time -- and the majority of teachers are angry activist women(look at the teachers that threw a boy out of school for wearing a "boys are cool" shirt while promoting "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" t-shirts for girls.).
Misandry severely limits a boys(or man's) ability to learn in school and/or function in society.
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Sadly, not much can be done
Sadly, not much can be done in public schools for boys. I switched schools for my son 3 times, before finding one that is really small and the teachers are not your avg teachers.
But he still faces the reading problem, there is very little that interests boy. The only solution was to buy him books that he likes. My son reads huge novels in just a few days. He has a whole bookcase full of books he has read.
He reads whatever books he has too at school, he gets thru it because he learned to read at home.
Misandric women have a tight grip on the school system.
The average boy does not want to study victim politics and talk about feelings in the classroom. He also does not want to engage in discourse that always lays the blame at his gender's feet when he knows the charges leveled at him are inherenetly stupid.
Sadly, not much can be done in public schools for boys.
With that said..
The system needs an overhaul. The current female teachers have been doing a crappy job educating children on what they actually need to know to survive; while doing an excellent job on spreading victim politics and misandry. Most women in the school system are hardcore misandrists with a preference for girls.
However, not all young boys are victims. There are some troublemakers using the fact that some teachers are undercover feminists as an excuse to do what they would be doing anyway(i.e. acting like a damn fool). I've ran across plenty of spoiled children whose doting parents -- especially mothers -- refuse to make the child take responsibility for his actions. This kind of behavior is usually seen from young boys who were raised solely by women and invisible or powerless, feminized fathers(A man that acts like a woman is not different than a woman. He lets the child get away with the same nonsense that a woman does. Dads that drink heavily and do drugs are usually guilty of this.).
I don't excuse bad behavior from men and boys anymore than I do from women.
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The Women are at Fault by Matthias Matussek