Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Here is another one:

Over the past two years, I have somewhat followed parallel discussions on primary education in the US, Germany, and the UK. The general mantra is that schools supposedly are ‘failing our boys.’

The argument goes like this: Boys are disadvantaged in today’s educational systems because most teachers are female.

Hmm.

When did anyone ever say that about girls in the past when the staff was mostly male? As far as I know, girls’ lower math scores were blamed on everything under the sun except male teachers. So why change the conclusions now?

Ah, but then, men-can-do-no-wrong...so sshhh.

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