Posted on 08/31/2010 11:14:04 PM PDT by Cardhu
10 years ago if someone would have said "we can water board you or you can get nagged all day" I would have said nagging.
Today I'd say "I'll get the water"
Boys come round to this view by the age of seven or eight and assume that girls will outperform them at school and behave better in lessons, research from the University of Kent shows.
Mom sent me off to government run school and says I stopped being a happy little boy by grade 2. This is 100% right.
My Grade 2 teacher, Ms. Creamer, took delight in punishing and humiliating all the boys, where the girls in the class could do no wrong, were always called on and always showered with praise. It got so bad that one time in class I took a pencil and paper and wrote "Fuck You Ms. Creamer" on it about 12 times, then tore it up into little pieces and threw it in the trash. The next day I was sent home with a note requesting a parent teacher conference.
At the conference, on her desk Ms. Creamer has taped together my torn up "Love letter", and she proceded to tell my mother all of my faults, which included the statement that I had "an overactive sense of fair play" (like that is a BAD thing?).
Mom was hot... it was very much like that scene in the movie Uncle Buck when John Candy flips the school teacher/admin a quarter and tells her to go downtown and buy a rat to gnaw the mole off her face.
Good day, madame.
I always would have picked the water. But that’s just me. I like the water.
Somebody already figured it out for you. See post #24.
Daughter,”How do you get boys?”
Mother,”You have to make them think they are smarter than you.”
Daughter,”How can you do that?”
Mother,”You have to be very smart.”
I suppose a backlash on behalf of boys should be forthcoming, but I sense it is delayed because the educationist powers that be continue to view girls as the ideologically favored class. For my part, I've begun to question the underlying model of universal same sex education. If one organizational mode has been demonstrated to favor boys, while another clearly favors girls, perhaps it's time to recognize that little boys and girls learn differently, and to find ways to recognize those differences in the classroom. One size fits all may not be the best model.
I am the father of two daughters. I am all for girl-friendly classrooms. But I want the boys to be better served as well, so that my girls have someone to marry down the road.
If sexism is bad, it’s bad. But, if this “study” is any indication, it’s perfectly fine to point out that the higher reaches of intelligence are overwhelmingly male.
Pointing this out doesn’t further the destruction of western society, though, so let’s all nod our heads sagely like good little girls and pretend to agree with the government educational establishment. They do only have our best interests at heart, you know.
Name five things, that you use on a daily basis, invented or discoved by a woman.
Well, you have to admit they are pretty clever.
They can say “we need to buy new towels” when there is nothing wrong with the ones you have, and you just open up the wallet.
How do they do that?
Well, Radiation (ie. x-rays) has a lot of uses, but that’s the only one I can name of the top of my head.
LOL. I could answer that, but it’s not appropriate for a public forum.
There was a FReeper who once said (in reference to whether or not Precious metals would have value when the stuff hits the fan): “Gold and silver will be valuable as long as men like women and women like shiny things. Basically, forever.”
Made me laugh. :)
It’s funny because it’s true.
Tragic.
Smart girls tend to be more conformist and do what they are told. The smartest boys tend to be the exact opposite.
By high school, I knew most of the assignments were a waste of time and a CYA move. I simply refused to waste my time for a few more grade points. I liked to read an learn on my own and didn't care about grades. I was always one of the best students in the few courses where teachers/profs actually taught.
I also predicted that a degree from Haa’vad or Columbia would become worthless as so many people were getting in on daddy's money. I knew my job performance and character would be the only thing that mattered.
And I was right. In the real world, my grades did not matter one tiny bit. Nobody even looked at them.
girls obey teachers like that type of student.
boy try and take over and lead teachers hate that.
teacher incompetence is a major problem.
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