Posted on 03/07/2021 8:50:07 PM PST by tbw2
Parents are more worried about their sons’ futures than their daughters’.
Boys have fallen far behind girls academically. Our school system increasingly favors female traits and doesn’t respect boys’ unique style of learning, which only leads to the expansion of the education gender gap. Research also now shows that boys are more at risk of struggling and falling behind because of remote learning during the COVID pandemic.
Shouldn’t we be adequately preparing ALL children for the future?
Scholarships and programs disproportionately favor girls. Research shows that 92% of sex-specific scholarships are reserved for women, when 58.6% of college students are already female, and females earn the majority of associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, AND doctorate degrees! We’re watching boys fall far behind, and rather than DO something to encourage boys, we tell them they’re “the problem” while tripling down on “girl power!”.
(Excerpt) Read more at eviemagazine.com ...
“A vast majority of American men (including myself) can’t and don’t want to do that type of work.
If it were the case, the technical trade schools and union halls would be bursting at the seams for new trainees and apprentices. I’m guessing they are not.”
Not 50 years ago a recession shut down a lot of construction, but electical work and painting persisted. Electrical Workers are trained and licensed for all kinds of work with computer networks, electrical grids, household applications and Industrial.
I’m guessing you’re misinformed.
What is your definition of a blue collar worker? An infrastructure such as USA, requires a lot of upkeep and as long as “coding” is being actively promoted the industrial jobs associated with maintaining this country’s infrastructure continue to be barely talked about.
That’s a signal that the bureaucracy is sadly misinformed as well.
This is a US education problem and, until that is corrected, it will only get worse
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Another HUGE issue is colleges and universities ONLY hire foreigners as professors/ lecturers now in many STEM fields.
Americans just can’t understand anything coming out of the professor’s mouth. A course in Indian or Chinese English is required just for basic comprehension.
Looked up CSU Ft. Collins for example. The sheer numbers of foreigners teaching there in the STEM fields was incredible.
And there is no H1B cap for education institutions.
The little brown people are taking over.
Successful men, in fact men from all groups, invest billions a year in prostitution alone. Not all of you, but you know who you are.
If men took a fraction of what they spend on prostitutes and invest it into programs similar to what is available for girls, they could solve this problem tomorrow.
“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”
― WC Fields
What is your definition of a blue collar worker?
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Any of the trades or manufacturing, for starters. Any job requiring manual labor, in whole or in part.
Infrastructure? Sure, but unless it’s management in an office somewhere, with a free MSc degree in Civil Engineering attached to it, no thank you. Rather run urban planning and infrastructure simulations using CityEngine, Autodesk and Unreal.
Never did manual labor in my life after the Army, and never will.
The little brown people are taking over.
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Indians and Mexicans *do* eff like rabbits, that is true
BS. Stop H-1B and watch wages go up and enrollment in SETM go up accordingly. But greedy bastards have to have instant results so F them all.
There is too much imported LEGAL immigration undercutting opportunities for Americans crises.
Hey its not BS - too many kids just are not taught real math anymore; too many have no ambition, no work ethic, no desire to succeed.
Engineering is hard - but not as hard as it was come calculators and so on. However, the US is churning out fewer and fewer engineers.
Stopping H1Bs is not going to make kids magically want to be engineers or anything else in STEM. Its an educational and cultural problem, not a legal problem.
Stopping H1Bs is not going to make kids magically want to be engineers or anything else in STEM. Its an educational and cultural problem, not a legal problem.
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When 74% of American STEM graduates can not get employment in their field after graduation, that is a severe problem. Why struggle in college for 4 to 6 years getting a real degree, only to see your job and opportunity for to foreigners and be saddled with $100 to $200K in student loans a foreigner does not have to pay?
Number one job-killer is huge tax breaks (no FICA or Medicare taxes) given to companies hiring foreigners, in addition to foreigners generally willing to work for up to 34% less than an often more qualified American - see the various H1B wage levels. Only Level 4 is comparable to American wages. Most are 16 to 34% less than American wages. A vast majority of H1Bs are at Level 1, which pays 34% less than the industry median wage.
https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wage-levels/
Well maybe stop being at war with them.
Try finding a STEM job if you’re white. I have a Ivy Master’s Degree in Applied Physics and BSEE.
Can’t get past the non-minority filters to even get an interview, let alone a job offer. My friend was shown the door for an Indian female replacement.
I’ll add this.
Find a good church that has a Trail Life USA troop. If they don’t have one, step up and start one.
the mission of Trail Life is to “guide generations of courageous young men to honor God, lead with integrity, serve others and experience outdoor adventure.”
In other words, the antithesis of the current anti male culture.
traillifeusa.com
great advice.
I’ve got four kids. Both girls have gone into literary fields. One is a book editor.
The boys diverge a bit. One is an aerospace engineer, the other is a trucker.
In reality, the trucker has a more important job. He works for a lumberyard and delivers semi loads to jobsites. He’s responsible for keeping hundreds of men employed.
All very true, but not necessarily always demonstrated, explained or due for remediation due to “disparate impact” stats.
E.g., men often choose higher-risk (and higher-pay) occupations. Kindergarten boys have long been less mature than their female equivalents. Many of those college undergrad and grad degrees are complete fluff. Is it really a crisis if we have relatively more boys taking AP physics than AP art?
What I see far too often with those young men who opt for a college education is just as you describe: “...too many have no ambition, no work ethic, no desire to succeed.”
They have been pounded down and defeated by the system before they get to that level.
Sir, your arrogance is stunning.
I’m not in the trades, but I work with tradesmen nearly every day. There is honor is skilled labor. Great honor and great pay in many cases
No accountant has ever looked at a balance sheet and told his son proudly, “I did that.”
Many a stonemason or glazer has gazed up at a shining tower and said “Son, I built that.”
If you want second class caste citizenship, no clout with the ladies on free drink night and a lifetime of working out doors then by all means go into the “trades”.
Morally and physically charged with the responsibility of raising their sons to grow into responsible manhood, many fathers have taught their sons -- either directly or by way of example -- that it is "socially responsible" to cower publicly in fear of a virus with a 99.9+ percent recovery rate; to hide their identity behind a completely ineffective, dehumanizing mask talisman; to quietly acquiesce to every command, diktat and mandate imposed by mere politicians and unelected bureaucrats no matter how unreasonable, ineffective or harmful those demands may be; to act with distrust, hate, fear, anger and intolerance toward anyone who comes within six feet of them, and on and on and on.
Far too many American "men" who remain, even after a year's time, paralyzed with increasingly irrational fear and who remain, even after a year's time, effectively emasculated by people who have lied to them persistently throughout that time are raising their sons the same way.
Living their lives in dreadful fear and breathtaking ignorance, these are the American "men" who are raising a generation of young boys to keep their damn mouths shut and to just "go along" with what society's bullies demand that they do... raising them to be cowards ... Covid Cowards.
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