Posted on 11/28/2017 6:52:05 PM PST by marshmallow
Teachers should not refer to pupils as “girls" or "ladies” because it means they are “constantly reminded of their gender”, the Government’s former mental health tsar has said.
Natasha Devon told headteachers of the country’s leading girls’ schools that they should be using gender-neutral language when they address their students, and added that the same applied for boys.
Speaking at the Girls’ School Association’s annual conference in Manchester, she said that she would “never walk into a room in an-all girls’ school and say girls or ladies” because it was “patronising”.
Ms Devon said that rather than addressing children as “boys” or “girls”, teachers should use gender-neutral terms such as “pupils”, “students” or “people”.
“I think actually in some ways boys are more constrained by the expectation of their gender,” she said. “And whilst that is being challenged and changed I don’t think it’s helpful to keep saying ‘girls, girls, girls, boys, boys, boys’, because there is so much implication that potentially goes with that.”
Ms Devon said that using the term “girls” can evoke a sense that they have to do everything perfectly which can “create a lot of anxiety” in children and teenagers.
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There are no individuals in the collective.
And "former" only in the sense of "escaped".
Some nutcases think they are Napoleon. Some think they are Henry VIII. I guess some must insist they are Nicholas II.
#25. A scene from “Alice in Borgland”.
Re “So don’t call them girls (or boys), just hold up a mirror to their faces”.
Re the kids, just let them hold up a mirror to their genitalia and decide for themselves what they are(in private, of course. Who do you think we are, the British?).
Has England gone totally batshit crazy or just the socialist elite fools? The descendants of former British prisoners in colonial America now know that coming to America was the best thing that ever happened to them).
“Curiouser and curioser...”
so...if a girl decides that her pronoun of choice is her, girl, she....do they lecture her as to how she is degrading herself or do they allow her the choice?
You may -think- you’re only kidding, or being hyperbolic, but even more outlandish satire has already become fact...
Couldn’t she have just used a spell to make everything work out. I realize that this was several decades before she was a professor at Hogwarts.
The wrong kid died. The late Oliver Swofford’s brother John is the ACC Commissioner. Works out well if you’re from or a fan of a North Carolina college. If your not, you’re out in the cold.
If it weren’t for the perverts and pro-”trans”/anti-science morons on the Left, girls wouldn’t need to be reminded that they are girls.
By the way I really enjoyed the film,”The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”.”Once I taught at a school that had it’s own version of Miss Jean Brodie on its staff. Also as a junior high student one of the teachers always addressed the students as pu-pills.
One delightful aspect of the story is that Miss Brodie is a conservative! She was not suckered in by any leftist "cause célèbre" of the day, such as the communist side in the Spanish Civil War.
Helen Reddy will have to change that song to “I am woman, don’t tell me about it”
“OK, sluts...”
But she was enthralled by Mussolini and the fascists.
Or hos.
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