Posted on 06/25/2005 8:33:25 AM PDT by herst1240
Honestly, how can we expect boys to succeed in school? From day one teachers tell the girls they are perfect in every way, teachers tell the boys they are inadequate and stupid (if they dont say it, they certainly imply it). The teachers promote an extremely girl-friendly environment, and anti-boys. Your boys have to listen to girl power all-day, and teachers tell them be more like the girls. If you were a young active boy, this would make you more active or aggressive and want to rebel after knowing you are neglected by the school.
As a mom/wife/school admin, I was taught the true meaning of equality by my parents and there is none of that here. PS tell you and the boys that his behavior issues restrain him from being able to learn. My contention is teachers in public schools seek to transfer the inadequacies and behavior problems completely on the boy(s). Indirectly, by doing this the teachers and schools extinguish any responsibility of the system who failed the boys. Then, since its not the schools fault, no recognition will be put forth to changing the problem in schools. Because, essentially they are telling everyone, it is all the boys fault and they failed the system, the system didnt fail them.. This whole issue makes my stomach turn, I think its so sad..
Thats just my opinion, let me know what yall think.
the nyt last week had an article about "positive discrimination".
it's ok for women to discriminate against men because men have dominated many fields, was the jist of the argument.
They are all being lured to Neverland!
It is definitely the case that the boys who will not be feminized will be the outcasts... or put on Ritalin.
I know a friend of mine is going to a tech school after getting the run-around with the state university.
This is the clincher right here that is missing from all these young women outperforming young men arguements. The country only has a certien amount of room for Bachelors Degrees in Psychology before many grads wind up bussing tables. At least most guys who go to College realize their going to get a job, probably a boring one, and look at the market place for what is needed.
I wish I was college-age again.
Wendy McElroy is a Libertarian, not a feminist. Ifeminist.com is a site based on a libertarian/conservative vision of feminism. Not that I don't like her, you understand; I do.
But don't confuse this with politically correct feminists waking up and deciding this is a problem. That's not going to happen.
Blue collar work can pay well, but I don't know if it has much of a future with increasing immigration. On the other hand, at least you can't move construction work outside of the country, as white-collar jobs have been.
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The earning power of a 22-year old man who's completed a trade apprenticeship will exceed that of a 22-year old woman with a liberal arts degree.
Young men are doing the cost-benefit analysis and university just isn't worth it for them.
Were I a university administrator, I would worry far more about the recurring phenomemon of careers and credentials declining in prestige and earning power as they become dominated by women.
The BA is becoming the modern equivalent of finishing school for young ladies. Yet university administrators don't see the problem there.
That's a little misleading. The fact is, your daughter won't be likely to work in a white-collar job either since they will all have been offshored to Bangalore.
>>Thats just my opinion, let me know what yall think.<<
I think you are right.
Is that like "affirmative action?" You know, the rhetorical euphemism that is neither affirmative nor active?
That's the thing, unless you are going to become a doctor, lawyer or engineer most men have decided that its just not worth the time and money.
"My opinion is that more men are going to junior and technical colleges, and bypassing the traditional 4-year universities."
Your opinion is wrong, these stats are for all such education.
These numbers are a disaster for our society and just another example of how feminism is damaging the culture.
Others point to explicitly anti-male attitudes -- that is, political correctness -- within education. The website Illinois Loop lists "22 School Practices That May Harm Boys." One of them: "'Modern' textbooks and recommended literature often go to extremes to remove male role models as lead characters and examples."
Great. A bunch of girls will go to college (probably tax-payer funded) and then graduate and become nanny-state nags.
I'd rather my sons become carpenters and auto mechanics, and my daughters marry carpenters and auto mechanics!
"The earning power of a 22-year old man who's completed a trade apprenticeship will exceed that of a 22-year old woman with a liberal arts degree."
Nonsense. At 22 a tradesman can make more money, but they top out soon... while someone with a college degree has many more opportunities for advancement in many fields. Getting a College education still has signficant financial benefits, not just in direct earnings but in job mobility, etc.
http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-3/value.htm
"According to the Census Bureau, over an adult's working life, high school graduates earn an average of $1.2 million; associate's degree holders earn about $1.6 million; and bachelor's degree holders earn about $2.1 million (Day and Newburger, 2002)."
"Young men are doing the cost-benefit analysis and university just isn't worth it for them. "
No, what is happening is that feminist indoctrination and anti-male bias in schools is harming both the male and female choices, in two ways:
- male role models are being removed both from young men's lives and from the classroom.
- feminist indoctrination that tell boys that men are slime, enough of them will play the part.
- the pro-women bias in academia extends to admissions, and to hiring, so equally qualified candidates, the job will go to the woman.
- There are many programs to encourage women to eg go into engineering and careers. but programs for men are neglected, especially white males.
The reverse discrimination is now paying 'dividends' in harming the next generation.
And once the boy gets to that point:
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