Former educator: Boys now the ones stumbling

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2007-11-12 15:31

Story here. Excerpt:

"In 1992, a controversial report claiming girls were being shortchanged by public education prompted initiatives credited with improving their academic performance.

Schools hired more female teachers, especially in math and science. Interaction with students in the classroom was tracked and teachers who focused on boys were trained to pay more attention to girls. And girls were encouraged to take more math and science and Advanced Placement classes.
...
"Girls outnumber boys in the National Honor Society, take more Advanced Placement courses and have higher grade-point averages, Hilton points out. Among the general population, boys are more than twice as likely as girls to be suspended from school and more than three times as likely to be expelled. They are more frequently diagnosed with learning disabilities. "It was like a huge problem that somehow had been hidden. I can understand why it was hidden. It wasn't on our radar screen — girls were on our radar screen in the 1990s," Hilton said.'

Like0 Dislike0

Comments

Quote from the article: "Hilton believes the difficulties of boys, and men in general, often can be traced to inferior literacy skills and teachers' perceptions."

Screw him. Now we are inferior in literacy too. No, it can't be because of how education was focused on girls. These self-loathing males only expand the problem.

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by Chuck7 on Wed, 2007-11-14 03:41

Thus they too are part of the problem. Only men that could care less about women and are equipped with the facts can hope to end this. White males will continue to defend women all the while stating that they are opressed by women.

Someone who defends slavemasters is the enemy...period.

Too many time have I seen white men place women's made-up issues over respect for black men and they wonder why hardly any black men wish to ally with them.

----------

The Women are at Fault by Matthias Matussek

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by MrReality on Thu, 2007-11-15 14:00