Posted on 09/14/2013 9:03:13 AM PDT by rickmichaels
I recently appeared on MSNBC’s The Cycle to discuss the new edition of my book The War Against Boys. The four hosts were having none of it. A war on boys? They countered with the wage gap and the prominence of men across the professions. One of them concluded, “I don’t think the patriarchy is under any threat.”
The MSNBC skeptics are hardly alone in dismissing the plight of boys and young men. Even those who acknowledge that boys are losing in school argue that they’re winning in life. But the facts are otherwise. American boys across the ability spectrum are struggling in the nation’s schools, with teachers and administrators failing to engage their specific interests and needs. This neglect has ominous implications not only for the boy's social and intellectual development but for the national economy, as policy analysts are just beginning to calculate.
As the United States moves toward a knowledge-based economy, school achievement has become the cornerstone of lifelong success. Women are adapting; men are not. Yet the education establishment and federal government are, with some notable exceptions, looking the other way.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Given the trend away from shop classes in US schools, I wonder if that's still true. When I was in high school (graduated in 1949), even those of us in the college track were encouraged to take one or more shop courses. I still have the stool I built in carpentry shop.
Since the schools are no longer teaching mechanical skills, it's more important for fathers to spend time with their sons building something, anything, to give them familiarity with tools and with the idea that "I could build that."
As Michael Savage said liberals are like mentally abused children who once they get power decide to abuse everyone else to “get even”-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEwVcsHnf3o
Of course they wouldn’t listen.
‘The View’ is just a bunch of loudmouth yentas sitting around clucking and sniffing each other’s farts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HKvTU6h-20
I can see that and I’m not even Jewish.
They are not just looking the other way, they are actively orchestrating the demise of traditional males and their roles in society.
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Indeed!
Why all the emphasis on anti-bullying, homosexual promotion, and pushing an hysterical anti-gun agenda?
Answer: To produce a nation of Peter Pan boy/men that are utterly incapable of defending themselves, their families, or their nation!
And...Have you noticed? Does it seem that in recent years there is an extraordinary number of “swishy” young men between the the ages of 15 and 30?
The National Rifle Association will win skirmishes but it WILL LOSE in the end unless the conservatives and Christians find a way to shut down the government school indoctrination camps.
I see. It’s everyone’s fault but the millions and millions of men in this country who have abandoned their boys by not marrying or staying married to their mothers.
And smart men won’t become teachers. It used to be an honorable profession for a guy — now it’s sneered at as “women’s work,” just like fetching coffee or answering phones.
So what did everyone think would happen when huge numbers of boys were abandoned and raised by women?
Guess it’s easier to blame “single moms” than to turn all this around by raising your sons and re-entering the teaching profession.
‘The View’ is just a bunch of loudmouth yentas sitting around clucking and sniffing each other’s farts.
You, sir, have just put into text, the very best description of 'The View', EVER.
I hereby bestow upon you The Brass Figlagee (with Bronze Oakleaf Palm):
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Indeed. And then these same liberal feminist women whine and complain that they’re “no good men around to marry.”
If you want to make school better for any of your kids you should homeschool them if at all possible!!!Public schools are really good places to learn all there is to know about how to fail!!!
The government schools will not be reformed by having more men as teachers.
Why? Answer: Because government schooling is fundamentally the very definition of a godless, single-payer, and socialist-entitlement. That can’t be fixed. It must be abolished.
You may want to do a little research as to which sex initiates divorce more often. A clue, it ain’t men.
If the couple was not married, both sexes are equally culpable for the less than stellar environment for raising a child. But, it could also be deduced that since women initiate divorce more than men that no matter what a man’s intentions are, it just may not be possible for him to stay in his child’s life. You know, due to restraining orders and the like. Also, if the couple was not married, the man has very limited, if any, rights to the child. Though this does not impact his requirement to pay child support, whether he wanted the child or not.
how many of those degrees are in worthless “basket weaving” areas?
Where are the “quotas” to recruit male teachers?
Where are the “quotas” to set aside areas for boys?
Where is IX protections of boys sports?
school is becoming a bovine plaid bastion sanctuary of the incomptent.
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