Posted on 01/27/2008 7:20:41 AM PST by Harrius Magnus
New York Post
BATTLING FOR BOYS
By MARTY NEMKO
January 24, 2008 -- IN the early 1980s, men and women earned an equal proportion of college degrees. Today, however, women attain 135 degrees for every 100 that men do, the National Center for Education Statistics recently reported. By 2016, it'll be 162 to 100.
Since good jobs increasingly require a degree, that disparity portends disaster for men. And a disaster for half our population is a disaster for everyone.
Why the lack of male college graduates? One main reason is that K-12 education has been made girl-friendly at the expense of boys:
*Competition, a prime motivator for boys, has largely been replaced by "cooperative learning."
*Readings about adventure and heroism are giving way to tales of relationships and heroines.
*Social studies now stress men's ill-doings and women's (and minorities') contributions.
*Today, 91 percent of elementary-school teachers arewomen, the highest level on record. The main male role model most boys see in school is the custodian.
So it shouldn't surprise us that a University of Michigan study found that the number of boys who say they don't like school rose 71 percent from 1980 to 2001.
When boys get home, the lack of positive male role models and the assault on their self-esteem continues: TV portrays most men as buffoons or sleaze bags shown up by wise, confident women.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Yes, I agree. The young, childless women teachers have an agenda, I believe. I taught school, then homeschooled, now am tutoring one on one. I also volunteer in a local middle/ high school. The women teachers can be the worst — full of theoretical ‘knowledge,’ ruined by the unions (’that is not MY job’) and often feminists of the worst sort.
I apologize for that generalization. The context which I said was in regards to actually marketable skills for a high tech economy.
In those sentences you covered almost all the issues!
Ritilin is a male thing
Education is
Anti Capitalist
Anti culture (multicultural)
Anti American
Anti Military
and ERA + Sportsmania have emasculated American sports
good call
(mother, father, wife were/are teachers...my favorite teacher was 5th grade...a male)
You can certainly become a writer without an English degree.
“The women teachers can be the worst — full of theoretical ‘knowledge,’ ruined by the unions (’that is not MY job’) and often feminists of the worst sort.”
yes, often the most vocal “experts” are the ones who are not raising children of their own.
I am always hopeful for change when these types become pregnant, and gleeful when I hear they are going to have a boy.
Welcome to the real world!
“(mother, father, wife were/are teachers...my favorite teacher was 5th grade...a male)”
LOL!
I don’t get it from personal experience - but I do hear it secondhand when my christian/conservative educator hubby comes home.
I do get some firsthand info when socializing with the teachers.
We are fortunate in that this is a small, rural district where the teachers tend to be christians and not AS liberal as most.
One of the few counties in NY that regularly goes red.
Well, I'm a tech writer. That's part of the high tech economy.
Okay I am sorry.
That wasn't my point; you have to be careful what you declare worthless. I've been a technical writer for many years, I don't have an English degree, but I'm thankful for the English classes I did complete (I dropped one!). What I will say on the subject is that a liberal arts degree requires a certain amount of talent and hard work before you can be a successful practitioner. But that's true of the Sciences as well. Not everyone can write code or solder wires. It just isn't in them.
ping
and let’s not forget those all-important degrees in ‘Womyn’s Studies.’!
Hopefully the infatuation with “degrees” will one day come to an end.
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Hopefully, a new system of post K-12 education will emerge.
The goal of the Marxists who control the NEA and the colleges of education is to emasculate boys and turn them into girly men. It is all part of the plan to destroy Western Civilization.
Unfortunately, there are armies of not too bright college of education majors will to be the Marxists’ Useful Idiots.
Yes, haha, when they get married and have BOYS. I remember talking with friends when my son/ our kids were all about 18 months old. “I don’t think this sexes-are-the-same stuff makes any sense.” Even my Social Worker friend agreed. There is nothing quite as solid as reality.
We love white males here. Don’t give up, the tide is changing. Haven’t you noticed? Abortions down 25%. The MSM is losing readership daily, papers folding. The blogs are front and center, and THEY don’t have pc-representatives. It’s all a facade with no substance behind it.
You are all right and yet, we have homeschooling. And blogs.
My 11 yr old grandson can’t see any reason for going to school, he thinks he can learn all he needs to know by working with his dad and grandpa, he’s not half-wrong.
SINGLE SEX EDUCATION NOW!!!
I know what you mean, both my boys went for a year, they have no problems making a living.
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