As a high school English teacher, the crisis is real. Another under-reported crisis is the lack of male teachers; most of whom are driven out by the "chick-i-fied" cultures of talking but not doing anything and the emphasis "collaboration" in public schools today.
It is not hard for many men who have been through the education system, nor for many perceptive observers, to conclude that it is not "boy friendly".
Antecdotal evidence and personal experience are rightly viewed with some skepticism. But, when I read about eductation problems for boys, I am mindful that my BA/MS degrees came only after I was past the age of 30, and long after spending 14 frustrating years in the public education/state university systems. It was the chance to realize a dream to fly the Navy's airplanes that finally focused my attenttion.
Some how the school systems do not tap into the motivating force for many boys--in fact they often bury it.
Of course, in recent years they exacerbate the problem even further by completely stifling every opportunity for boys to vent their abundant energy and natural aggression during the school day.
At least those that felt compelled to comment on the article overwhelmingly rejected or at least questioned the source. The ombudsman for the Post, a very rational person I might add, should have an interesting explanation for this disaster come Sunday- that is, if people let her know this was offensively biased.
Couldn't wait to get free of the of "the Bells of St.Marys" women. In a Jesuit college,I finally found quantum physics realizing I was a brilliant man,whom the women there couldn't abide. Why? Knew that time was a waste of mine all along.
The irony is that we gave our government the job of educating us; we therefore have no one but ourselves to blame that we are ignorant.
We have dumb-ed down all forms of achievement to soothe the bruised self-esteem of a small percentage of underachievers. In doing so we have eliminated much that fosters excellence in the greater population in general and in males specifically.
In striving for "equality" women have encouraged a culture of male bashing. (I too do this all too often.) In belittling males, we women are furthering the erosion of respect for authority. Be that authority a police officer, a priest or a father.
There are moments that I despair that there may in fact be some sinister conspiracy underfoot to ensure this nations utter failure.
Then I am reminded of the courage of our young men (and women) in uniform and I am reassured that if there is such a conspiracy, we will overcome it.
I am not surprised, this is part of the dumbing down of the masses. Boys used to be boys and teachers expected that. Now we have conflict resolution and whimps. Instead of Edison, the Wright Brothers and American Exceptionalism we are subject to self doubt and socialism.
How is this a path to a better world? Am I missing something? Do the lefts minions really think they create a perfect society built on nothing?
The biased, feminist mainstream media were provided with fodder in the form of a biased, feminist report on education and they ran with it. Quel surprise?
Why is the left afraid to let people fail? Sometimes people do actually learn from their mistakes. I'm reminded of this quote, "True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world."
Felix E. Schelling(1858-1945)
Boys cannot fight, speak, act, or be boys. Girls want boys to be girls because they don't need men. They are calling it the neutering of the American male.
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I wonder if this data changes based upon demographics. For instance, is it more pronounced among white vs blacks, or less so?
How about area of the country, midwest vs southwest for instance.
Either way, it deserves more examination.
Posted by: JJC | May 20, 2008 12:59 PM
As a high school English teacher, the crisis is real. Another under-reported crisis is the lack of male teachers; most of whom are driven out by the "chick-i-fied" cultures of talking but not doing anything and the emphasis "collaboration" in public schools today.
Posted by: John | May 20, 2008 01:43 PM
It is not hard for many men who have been through the education system, nor for many perceptive observers, to conclude that it is not "boy friendly".
Antecdotal evidence and personal experience are rightly viewed with some skepticism. But, when I read about eductation problems for boys, I am mindful that my BA/MS degrees came only after I was past the age of 30, and long after spending 14 frustrating years in the public education/state university systems. It was the chance to realize a dream to fly the Navy's airplanes that finally focused my attenttion.
Some how the school systems do not tap into the motivating force for many boys--in fact they often bury it.
Of course, in recent years they exacerbate the problem even further by completely stifling every opportunity for boys to vent their abundant energy and natural aggression during the school day.
Posted by: Bob Gilkison | May 20, 2008 02:01 PM
At least those that felt compelled to comment on the article overwhelmingly rejected or at least questioned the source. The ombudsman for the Post, a very rational person I might add, should have an interesting explanation for this disaster come Sunday- that is, if people let her know this was offensively biased.
Posted by: Dan-O | May 20, 2008 02:27 PM
Couldn't wait to get free of the of "the Bells of St.Marys" women. In a Jesuit college,I finally found quantum physics realizing I was a brilliant man,whom the women there couldn't abide. Why? Knew that time was a waste of mine all along.
Posted by: d brier | May 20, 2008 07:11 PM
The irony is that we gave our government the job of educating us; we therefore have no one but ourselves to blame that we are ignorant.
We have dumb-ed down all forms of achievement to soothe the bruised self-esteem of a small percentage of underachievers. In doing so we have eliminated much that fosters excellence in the greater population in general and in males specifically.
In striving for "equality" women have encouraged a culture of male bashing. (I too do this all too often.) In belittling males, we women are furthering the erosion of respect for authority. Be that authority a police officer, a priest or a father.
There are moments that I despair that there may in fact be some sinister conspiracy underfoot to ensure this nations utter failure.
Then I am reminded of the courage of our young men (and women) in uniform and I am reassured that if there is such a conspiracy, we will overcome it.
Posted by: MsDollie | May 20, 2008 10:00 PM
I am not surprised, this is part of the dumbing down of the masses. Boys used to be boys and teachers expected that. Now we have conflict resolution and whimps. Instead of Edison, the Wright Brothers and American Exceptionalism we are subject to self doubt and socialism.
How is this a path to a better world? Am I missing something? Do the lefts minions really think they create a perfect society built on nothing?
Posted by: DaveT | May 20, 2008 10:24 PM
The biased, feminist mainstream media were provided with fodder in the form of a biased, feminist report on education and they ran with it. Quel surprise?
Posted by: Mack | May 21, 2008 04:45 AM
Why is the left afraid to let people fail? Sometimes people do actually learn from their mistakes. I'm reminded of this quote, "True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world."
Felix E. Schelling(1858-1945)
Posted by: Stilt | May 21, 2008 11:01 AM
Boys cannot fight, speak, act, or be boys. Girls want boys to be girls because they don't need men. They are calling it the neutering of the American male.
Posted by: Dennis S | May 21, 2008 11:05 AM
JJC--
If you were really an English teacher, you wouldn't write things like "As a high school English teacher, the crisis is real." Arrgh!
Posted by: sestamibi | May 21, 2008 12:37 PM