Boys are taught better by men
Research has shown that boys are taught better by men.
I think I’ll just let that settle in for a while. Hasn’t the weather been strange for this time of year?
And the All Blacks, do you think they can sustain their form through to the World Cup? I can’t help feeling it has as much to do with rugby as the America’s Cup gravy train had to do with yachting. Snouts and troughs and fast-talking MBAs.
Has it sunk in yet? Research has shown that boys are taught better by men. Not just boys with autism or boys with social issues or boys from single-mother homes; all boys are taught better by men (Dee, 2006 and Sigman, 2008).
When boys are taught by men, they are more engaged in lessons, they behave better, and they perform at a higher academic level.
This means that if schools and ministries of education are to do what their mission statements say they do (like ‘providing an excellent education for everybody regardless of ethnicity, waist–size and gender) they have to employ more male teachers. And not pretend-men; real ones.
Real men, lest there be doubt, use swear words when they squash their fingers with staplers. Real men throw a ball around at lunchtime.
Real men don’t, and this is important for the ministry people to understand, don’t do buzz groups, or group hugs or share their feelings about curriculum positions.
The qualifications people must accept there is a gender issue inherent to assessment.
Girls are OK with long drawn out projects with frilly borders and stickers and glitter on the front pages and pedantic marking criteria, while boys prefer to play footy all year, and then study for a few nights before an exam.
The curriculum people must accept there is a gender issue inherent to the curriculum. Boys are not OK with poems or batik or role-playing during lessons on fractions.
This is because boys and girls are different. We’ve known this for years.
Schools with uniforms have different uniforms for the girls and boys. We build separate girls’ and boys’ toilets and changing rooms.
I learnt it on the farm; that males behave differently to females. Bulls, rams, roosters and stallions behave differently to cows, ewes, hens and mares.
Men and women behave differently. Boys and girls behave differently.
It’s as simple as XY and XX. It’s long past time that education systems all over the world accepted this and made schools work for the girls and the boys within them.
By the way, before the feminazis get their lynching kits out, that same research said girls are taught better by women.
— Peter Giddens
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