princesslifestylechoices:floozys:your-tears-are-my-ink:saturn420:floozys:byeEvery clasroom caters to
princesslifestylechoices:floozys:your-tears-are-my-ink:saturn420:floozys:byeEvery clasroom caters to boys??? What the fuck.this is the description.What ever happened to letting “boys be boys?” Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for nibbling a Pop Tart into a gun. In another, a teacher was so alarmed by a picture drawn by a student (of a sword fight), that the boy’s parents were summoned in for a conference. In short, boys in America’s schools are routinely punished for being active, competitive, and restless. In other words, boys can no longer be boys. Christina Hoff Sommers, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, explains how we can change this.how about you stop taking things out of contextgirls are being sent home for “exposing too much skin” but there’s a war on boys because we’re discouraging violence? In the late 90s (in response to girls actually matching boys academic results) (because curriculums changed the way they framed knowledge and learning goals away from men explicitly and attempted to just frame learning in the context of the “modern west”) there was this conservative hysteria over boys “falling behind” and govts pumped ridiculous amounts of money into programs to “help boys” when in reality boys actually weren’t falling behindand we know actually in terms of standardised testing (have whatever feelings you want about PISA et al) a child’s gender rarely actually impacts on their academic performance!! i.e gender does not show as a statistically significant factor in educational disadvantage. The income, parental education experiences and levels of achievement, regional disadvantages, a child’s health to name a few have MAJOR impacts on a child’s academic and social experience and outcomes.So there is NO CRISIS IN BOYS EDUCATION IN THE SINGULAR EXPERIENCE OF BEING BOYS. Indigenous boys, poor boys, boys who live in communities with limit resources, boys who come from families that didn’t access much education, those boys are at risk, just like girls with similar intersecting disadvantages are at risk. -- source link