Posted on 08/27/2006 9:05:00 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Here is the sentence you quoted:"Should [teachers] be taught to combat biases in what they expect of boys and girls?"
All they mean to ask is if teachers should be taught to question their own assumptions and innate biases toward boys and girls.
I learned a great deal from my very blond and very sexy 7th/8th grade German language instructor, Frau Liebschien. It was great when she walked the aisles to give us "extra instruction". Hubbba hubba!
My 5th grade home room teacher... the lovely Ms. Kovar (circa '1977)... always had me hip-no-tized. I don't think I learned a thing that whole year ;-)
Anyone who has both boys and girls knows this. The little boys follow Dad around and do what he's doing (or later imitate it) and the girls follow Mommy around and do what she's doing. That it extends into later years in school is no surprise.
As they say duhhhhhhhh....
In a class taught by a man, girls were more likely to say the subject was not useful for their future. They were less likely to look forward to the class or to ask questions.
So, either way, the female b*tch*s?
Geez, this guy nailed it! ;-)
what they will conclude is there needs to be MORE feminist indoctronation since obviously boys dont respect women teachers. They will not allow classrooms to segragate.
I would have never in my life thought of such a thing. Hunting and fishing I get.
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That's the difference in gender.......
great points! Good Work!
How much did this tidbit of wisdom cost the taxpayers?
Imagine the horror! LMAO!!! Now *that* is funny!
About three years ago I ran into my daughter's room to investigate a very loud growling howl. When I asked her what was going on all she did was point.
It seems that my son had gotten fed up with her "borrowing" his GI Joes to use as boyfriends for her Barbies. What he did to that doll house, had it not been so funny and perfect, would've been down-right disturbing.
He had one Barbie in the kitchen being held at gun point by one of the Joes. Another Barbie had met her demise in the living room. (Lots of lipstick for blood. He even put the splatter on the wall behind her.) Another Barbie was being interrogated by a Joe in the upstairs bedroom. (Stop that! He was only 9! It was a proper interrogation that involved a Joe dumping a pink bucket of water over the head of the unfortunate Barbie.) He even drew foot-prints on the doors with eyeliner to show where the doors had been kicked in. To top it all off, he had perched a helicopter on the roof with a rebellious Ken rappelling out the door, down the side of the house. ("He was a spy from the start," I was later told.) There were a dozen more details that I can't remember. Man, I wish I'd taken some pictures.
Yup. Boys and girls play with items in their own special way.
Yeah...but this is public schools we're talking about here!
That's horrible!
(Must...stop...laughing...)
From my own experience, I disagree. I'd say what it really depends upon is the quality of student and the of the teacher. The trouble with teaching in secondary school is the sort of personality/intellect that gravitates towards it...regardless of gender (draw your own conclusions from the ratio of women to men in a typical school). The best approach is to have a choice of teachers and students.
Nothing personal, but do you realize that your grammer is really bad? I hope you are not a teacher.
What was the other class and teacher like? Perhaps they not so much like you as dislike the options. OTOH, are you beautiful? '-)
Lucky you!
Some of my female teachers were distracting, too. Like the one whose arm flab swung back and forth when she wrote on the chalkboard ..... ugh!
If you're referring to whether evolution should be tought or not, it should be taught by biology teachers, yes. No one is going to hell for not taking the book of Genesis literally. Evolution is a theory, not an ideology. Any student getting out of school should have the freedom to believe what they want. But I don't think whatever similarities there might be between a bunch of chimpanzees and a classroom of kids has anything to do with teaching. Teaching is not mind games and indoctrination, but that's what too many people out there think it is. A teacher should exercise the brain of the student, not program them. That's what television is for.
Doesn't Dee realize that the establishment doesn't want to hear the truth?
" I do think though, that many of these single-mother boys need a man in their life to teach them what it is to be a man.
They REALLY do!"
Your observations are entirely correct. I forget whether I read the statistics in Sowell's book ("Black rednecks & white liberals") or the Thernstroms' book ("America in Black and White"). Or somewhere else...
But you are right on the money!
No word yet from the 'National Men's Law Center which works to advance the progress of men', ...because... well, does anyone work to advance the progress of men?
Over the past 30+ years we've added the female half of our population to the competitive labor market. So, aside from legal immigrants, illegal aliens, 'work visa'workers, and 'overseas outsourcing',... we've dumped a roughly 100% increase of American workers onto the labor market...and this female additional 100% has been a highly subsidized labor pool (i.e. the primary income of their household has generally been from men, so their income to the household is supplementary)so they've tended to underbid men in the real work market, thus driving down wages.
Do you suppose there's any evidence available that the Gloria Steinem/Betty Freidan/NOW crowd was somewhat in the service of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce crowd?
Sorry this is a tangent on this thread. It just seemed important as I wrote the first line or so of germain response.
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