Must be private school, cuz a lot of the Public Schools never get to reading and writing.
Education has become very, very feminized. Increasingly, the solution to teacher alienation from normal boyNESS is medication.
It’s a chemical holocaust, and now men simply don’t want to go to college. Sure, sure...all men are rapists, all women will end up as rape victims cuz we’re soooo dastardly.
NO THANKS.
They’re kids, not trained seals. More parents need to get loud about how kids are being institutionalized in the form of schooling. It isn’t normal for children to be “housed” all day, sitting quietly.
I’ll tell you a real story from my freshman year in the dorms at a major west-coast University; we had to go around in a seated circle, introducing ourselves. One catch —we had to STATE that we were GAY.
This, we were told by the proctors, was in order to break down stereotypes.
WHAT NORMAL MAN WOULD WANT TO DO THAT..?
As Lenin said, “Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them...”
Boys need a man as a role model, and many of them today grow up without a father in the home. Thanks a lot, feminists.
Girls play dress-up and dream of marriage (or did, anyway) and other such romantic type stuff while we boys were still fascinated with putting every known insect to humanity in a jar of gasoline and watch them curl up and die .... after we pulled the legs and/or wings off ..... the ones that were spared from the magnifying glass.
We grew up to kill men and break things so the girls could/would feel safe at home being real life Barbies for their Kens.
Leave it all alone, I say ... Don't allow the conversation to even develope.
After dealing with a boy hating teacher during my son’s second grade year I home-schooled him until the 11th grade. After 6 weeks with the boy hater, I put him into another class. But that wasn’t peachy keen either. That teacher was very pregnant. She went on leave with a short term sub, then a long term sub. She finally returned for the last few months. So in one school year my son had 5 teachers.
I can't remember being asked to write anything in kindergarten. Anyway, boys are wired for mathematical ans mechanical stuff, and they love to build things. Let them play with blocks and make models, for heaven's sake.
Boys generally lag behind girls in grade school; girls historically lag behind boys starting in high school. Feminists will rue the day that girls were given the advantage starting in high school. Women appreciate a man who does better than they do in scholastics. Feminists don’t believe men are necessary in most areas. Feminists will never have a close symbiotic relationship with a man. They have to be superior. Feminists have written their own ending to the romantic story. There is no romantic story for Feminists. True women acknowledge they need men for a completely fulfilled life. When I was in college a popular t-shirt said ‘a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle’. The Feminists have painted themselves into a corner. A sad and lonely corner.
Thanks NEA.
I believe it’s because there are so few men left in the schools teaching these days. The female teachers are left to interpret the boys as dysfunctional and having problems because they aren’t behaving like little girls.
Our little boy is now a perfectly normal 14 year old who likes snowball fights, computer games, rock climbing, girls and robotics, to varying degrees on various days. He plans to study mechanical engineering or industrial design. He still loves swords, and won a classical league competition with his hand-made 4-foot Roman sword. Boys will be boys, thank God.
Interesting question: WHICH of our military services has the LEAST trouble attracting recruits...?
Deep in your heart you already KNOW the answer, right?
And I think it has to do with some of the matters raised in this thread.
My son’s kindergarten teacher said there were a couple of years when she found that the boys were just as good as the girls at writing their letters. In those years, GI Joe was popular. The boys had gotten a bit of improved manual dexterity by changing the outfits on GI Joe, just as the girls had been doing by changing doll outfits. The boys just needed the chance to build the coordination.
Our public school does expect a lot of “good girl” type sit-still-and-study behavior. That kindergarten teacher mentioned above used to bench misbehaving kids during recess. Honestly, if the kid was antsy before recess, what’s he going to be like after he had to sit nicely through recess, too, and lost the opportunity to run around? She had two daughters, no sons, I believe.
The best surprise I ever got was discovering how wonderful a little boy could be. Yes, he has a lot of energy and silliness and noise and potty humor. But he also is full of enthusiasm and heart and curiosity and loyalty. I’m so sorry not everybody sees the complete picture, but very glad that I have been so blessed.
At least 5% of the population is divergent (where the question is the starting point, and their thoughts expand out from there). Some of the greatest thinkers in the world are divergent. Unfortunately, the standard classroom environment is the WORST POSSIBLE PLACE for these brilliant minds. They need an open learning environment - the least restrictive environment possible.
The typical classroom environment is also normalized, meaning that children of all metacognitive abilities are put together. Sometimes academically brilliant children are miscategorized because they learn the material easily and then are instantly distracted.
It's not uncommon for the masculine mind to be distracted at an early age. Their mind hasn't settled down yet; it's too busy reacting to stimulii, and processing on levels that hasn't been fully explored yet. Very active boys need constant "food for thought" and the squirming, chewing, giggling, are all indicators that your child's mind is moving very quickly. These activities are "coping mechanisms" that help keep part of their brain "busy" so the rest can focus. Preventing them from "entertaining" a portion of their brain will actually INHIBIT learning.
If you notice, when young boys are excited and "telling a story," they will jump around or run things together - leaving out huge chunks of the narrative. In their eyes, they've already processed that part of the experience and are merely getting to the highlights. That's why you sometimes have to probe, or ask that the story be repeated several times. Like peeling an onion, you find more layers underneath.
If you will notice, boys usually become "behavior" problems around the ages where they experience substantial physical growth. Their hormone production is beginning, an a change in hormones can result in a change in behavior. If you wake up and find your son's voice has dropped a half-octave, expect that behavior problems will follow. It's a hormone thing.
Finally, and perhaps most sadly, an increasing number of boys are being raised in homes without a strong male presence. The presence of a strong, supportive father changes the atmosphere of the home, providing a stabilizing force, a sense of security, a role model for appropriate behavior, and an outlet for masculine energy.
I've already pulled my daughter out to home school her. My son will be following shortly.
This guy should then switch to high school, or Jr. College, and teach math. Then he’ll find a “girl gap”.
The early childhood “gap” that he “discovered” has always been so.
This is really sad. I’m glad I sent my kids to non-public grade school. They got a much better education in the basics that served them well in later years.