Had a female teacher in 5th grade who was going thru a divorce at the time. Her treatment of the boys in her class made it quite clear that she was not overly fond of the male gender.
My sons experience this with a teacher who hated children, especially boys. My wife stood outside the classroom when the teacher didn’t know she was there. She heard the teacher screaming at the children as though they were dogs. They eventually transferred her to teach in junior high, where she is still a bitch.
Beware of male teachers that like boys too much. Most teachers are liberals including the queer ones.
A good reason put men back into teaching school.
I encountered this decades ago, particularly with nuns in Catholic middle school. It’s nothing new.
Just another example of political correctness and a different form of affirmative action (different from race based).
Just about every change that has been made in education since the 1960s has served to do nothing but screw things up and dumb down education for everyone. Bigots and fools in charge.
This isn’t something new - I experienced a problem with female teachers way back in 1947. Some of them just didn’t like little boys at all - very apparent.
I went to grade school 50 years ago. It was a different world then. They actually taught then.
Interesting article. This is should have been placed under news, though.
Ed school majors to a significant degree are gullible, easliy led, generally ignorant cannon fodder for the leftwing operatives who run said schools. They tend not to be very smart, and are quite suggestible.
Parents have a MUCH more profound influence on children than teachers do.
Send them to public school if you must, but when they get home YOU contribute to their education. Don't leave it to the politically correct schools to do it all.
I remember when they were 3-4 going through the star, car, bar, tar etc english words. And when we were sitting outside the store while mom was shopping going through the whole farmer buys seed, grows crops, buys gas, brings to store, store sells, makes profit, pays employees who shop and spread money around etc. They got tired of me lecturing them every chance I got but they absorbed it so I didn't care if they got tired of it or not.
Through their high school years it was trivial pursuit cards at our dinner table. I read the questions on the cards and gave them a chance to answer then gave them a short lecture on each one. It forced them to use their gray matter and made their minds more flexible. We had a couple of decks and borrowed 2-3 more decks from relatives. They whined about that too. But intelligence is comprised of two components just like a computer. There's a structural component that we're born with and can't do much about, and there's a data component that we can DEFINITELY do something about.
We had to have ours tested — then we got to rub his scores in the snotty principal’s nose! Got whiplash from her rapid attitudinal turnaround... and she skipped him a grade.
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I have a lot of problems with this article. For one thing, it’s really vague. What the heck is it about? Some examples would help.
But my main problem is that it is one a pro-life website.
My hope is for as many people as possible to become pro-life, that it won’t be seen as just a Christian issue or conservative issue but a human rights issue. When a leading pro-life group or site starts going off-mission it can turn off would-be pro-lifers.
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I think it depends more on the subject material being taught as well as the age of the student.