Posted on 01/19/2013 2:21:14 PM PST by huldah1776
... After fifth grade, he found, student assessment becomes a matter of “a teacher’s subjective assessment of the student’s performance,” and is further removed from the guidance of objective test results. Teachers, he says, tend to assess students on non-cognitive, “socio-emotional skills.” This has had a significant impact on boys’ later achievement because, while objective test scores are important, it is teacher-assigned grades that determine a child’s future with class placement, high school graduation and college admissibility.
Eliminating the factor of “non-cognitive skills…almost eliminates the estimated gender gap in reading grades,” Cornwell found. He said he found it “surprising” that although boys out-perform girls on math and science test scores, girls out-perform boys on teacher-assigned grades....
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Well, that's not always the answer. One of my male family members and a neighbor boy were treated horribly by bully male teachers when they were in middle and high school. The term "scarred for life" is not an exaggeration.
The answer is not to let your kids go to government schools, which just seems to attract liberals with power needs. Kids are easy, vulnerable targets.
And after they have been teaching awhile, they turn into truculent tyrants in their families, holding their children as ransom from aunts, uncles and grandparents and making all their in-laws jump through hoops as they attempt to "organize" all family get-togethers with their husbands' relatives. We have three of them in our family. Most of us stay in our own homes for holidays now that Mom has died rather than put up with their gimlet-eyed criticisms of everything we hold dear.
I went to grade school 75 years ago. They were all old maids, poor dears. They worked hard and taught us well. They loved us , the boys and the girls. Iam sad they could not find husbands during the depression, because the men could not find work.
Thanks huldah1776.
Yep. It’s not just feminist teachers driving boy students down. It’s feminist moms.
Hard-charging feminist careerist moms are giving their sons short shrift. With no full-time mom at home to push and encourage them, adolescent boys grow up as alienated slackers. The daughters, by contrast, are taught to do their homework and become independent women who don’t need men.
It’s the prescription for disaster. America has a lot of shacked-up young people who delay marriage, divorce frequently, and have only a few lonely kids.
Given the time frame, it's also possible that many of those women might have had boyfriends or fiances who had died in the First World War, and they never found someone else.
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I have a lot of problems with this article. For one thing, it’s really vague. What the heck is it about? Some examples would help.
But my main problem is that it is one a pro-life website.
My hope is for as many people as possible to become pro-life, that it won’t be seen as just a Christian issue or conservative issue but a human rights issue. When a leading pro-life group or site starts going off-mission it can turn off would-be pro-lifers.
There are parents who push their kids to excel in sports to get scholarships, so they don't have enough time for their studies. These kids may play on college teams, dreaming of being a professional, then when they're injured simply don't know what to do with themselves. Or the parents push their kids so hard in high school that the kids get into the good college their parents wanted, and just slack off because they've reached their goal.
Our son once told us he appreciated the fact that we DIDN'T nag him about doing well in school all the time. He had friends in college who hardly spoke to their parents anymore, because they were finally free of the haranguing. That was very sad to hear. We didn't have to harangue our son, because he had a very strong internal drive, and still does, as an attorney who wants to be a judge, someday.
Good for your son. Sounds like he’s doing well.
But I have trouble believing that most children are pushed too hard to succeed. They are usually not pushed hard enough, and they are overconfident about their abilities because they never had the proper parenting to give them the right sense of perspective. Studies say that American children think they do quite well in studies and yet they are in fact well behind kids overseas in stuff like math and science.
A mom at home is the best encourager of a son — loving, prodding, showing him how a successful man will be attractive to women. She does not have to nag, just be there. She should be there when he comes home after school, and welcome him with genuine love and enthusiasm, as only a mother can. Then he will be less likely to seek solace in sex or video games (or worse). He will be less inclined to hang out with bad apples and wild latch-key kids who complain that their parents push them too hard so let’s go smoke some weed.
Nope, I don’t think most kids are pushed too hard to succeed.
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I think it depends more on the subject material being taught as well as the age of the student.
This is high quality involved parenting. Thank you. There are to many people/ parents that don’t realize that parents MUST be involved if they want a good outcome.
Their children's futures for the next 10,000 generations are at stake, but they can't see that apparently.
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