New Zealand: Boys education failure continues to be ignored

Is anyone going to bother to tell Judy Turner that she is wasting her breath? She is in one of those many countries where the educational gender gap is deeply, deliberately and cynically institutionalised. So much so that the problem of boys' poor performance has been officially accepted as the natural order of things and wiped off the radar. The system is totally under the control of the feminists who have achieved precisely what they wanted - the endemic failure of boys at every level.

That was phase one, successfully tucked away. The agenda has now moved on, to the question of how to extend female hegemony into the workplace. This is supposed to follow on inexorably from phase one, with the higher numbers of females holding better educational qualifications taking over the higher paid and more influential jobs.

Except of course that is proving a far tougher nut to crack, for three main reasons: firstly because you cannot control and manipulate adults the way you can kids. Women may be in control of the formal education system, but they are not in control of all forms of education, let alone the wider world which is a million times more complex and refuses to bend to simplistic feminist theory. Secondly because the hard reality of the market place in that bigger world very quickly strips away the false veneer of female superiority, when those supposedly brilliant females turn out to be considerably less brilliant in practice than their overblown academic qualifications claim them to be. And thirdly because in later life, additional inescapable realities start muscling in, like the fact that it is women who have the babies, and that men have far greater staying power in employment.

I believe the failures of the educational system that seek to pronounce boys as dumb and limited in comparison with girls, are only likely to be corrected when sufficient pressure comes back onto it from the world of business and commerce; when enough employers tell the government that the females they are being sent who claim to be God's gift are not as good as their qualifications say they are; while the men whom the system has pronounced failures are turning out to be much better. Therefore it is the system that is broke and needs fixing.

Meantime, the fight goes on and young men must learn that just because a bunch of hypocritical feminists and politicians tell them they are not up to the mark, doesn't necessarily make it so. There are many ways to bypass a system that is geared to hurt them.

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