omg I’m doing research for one of projects for college, and apparently, girls learn better when they’re in an all girls class, but boys learn even worse when they’re in an all boys class, because all the negative things become even stronger of there are no girls to act as “buffer”
get rid of the boys and let girl learn in peace, i couldn’t care less about them
It’s not our job to be a “buffer”
Separate boys from girls then, they don’t have to be acting like mothers at age 12, if boys ruin the education of others boys, um, idk, fix their behavior maybe?
I work at uni. My program is very competitive. Like you need a 92% or more to get in. We get 10x the applications than we can accept. So. This means our program is 95% female. Simply because girls do better in highschool than boys. Its literally that simple. However. This is a HUGE deal in the administration! Because OMG all those poor boys with less than a 92% can’t get into our program and woe is me, those poor poor boys. Every year we meet to talk about ways to “rectify” this “problem”. One year they’re going to stop inviting me to these meetings. Because I always ask questions like “how do we get boys into the program with lower GPAs without denying girls with higher GPAs? And how is giving boys preferential treatment not sexist?” Keep going good ladies, I’m saving your seat!
This type of thing always happens when women are dominating something, protocols are changed to accommodate and benefit men, and if this strategy isn’t successful the field is devalued.
Keep the good work!
The amount of times I heard my grandfather talk about the ‘feminization’ of schools because he wanted to blame the system for boys under performing (or, more accurately: girls out performing the boys) instead of, ya know, boys’ entitled attitudes and overall piss poor behavior when at school.
When women fail at something: there must be something wrong with women
When women succeed at something: there must be something wrong with the systemI think I’ve talked about it before on other posts, but I once had an anthropology class that, completely unintentionally, was all women and one man, and he dropped the course after two weeks. The other section of the same anthropology class, taught by the same professor, was mixed with men and women. So, since it was anthropology, she asked if it was cool if she took notes. She said right away that the all female class had a wildly different vibe, that we spoke and acted differently and had different social expectations of her and the rest of the class, and that we let students complete their thoughts before disagreeing, while the mixed class was highly traditional and almost entirely male dominated because every time a woman spoke, a man jumped in halfway through to “correct” her by saying the same thing. Its a very small sample size, but I think about this a lot
I particularly love how commentators on this subject in the msm, both liberal and conservative, ascribe girls’ success in school to some bizarre idea that schools “cater” to girls’ “strengths” and that’s why they do better. “Boys don’t learn the same way, we need to change how we teach!” And I’m like holy crap, girls weren’t even educated en masse in the United States until the middle of the last century. It was all built for boys. Boys outnumbered girls in schools, especially any education past the age of sixteen, hugely. IT WAS ALL BUILT FOR THEM, not much has changed overall about American education since the late 1800s in terms of subject matter (not content), structure of classrooms, who is teaching even. Women dominated as teachers starting from the late 1800s– prior to that males dominated. You know, the dudes who built this system to cater to boys to begin with?
What happened was that girls came into the system and adjusted. And now, in spite of the fact studies show, time and time again, that even female teachers give boys preferential treatment, extra attention, and lots of leeway, boys are falling behind, in their own system, built for them. Yes, the world has changed a lot, and educations should too, but the failure of boys to keep up with girls probably has everything to do with girls being instilled with a sense of responsibility from babyhood, and being controlled in much the same way they were back in the last century, and boys have been instilled with more and more entitlement and a sense of ease– especially white boys, because these same observations don’t apply to Asian children in the same way, or to Black and Hispanic kids in the same way.
Another thing that has happened is whenever girls surpassed boys fifty years ago, they’d change the goalposts so boys could acheive higher, especially in math and the sciences. But in response, girls caught up. They dumbed down the goalposts in areas where girls did better, and I say “dumbed down” because essay writing, for example, used to be a very common testing procedure, but it isn’t anymore, because first grading those things is more time consuming and the system became more about churning out non-thinkers, but secondly because boys didn’t do well at essays and girls excelled. So they dumbed down tests in language and social studies. And yet boys did not catch up in response. And we started failing girls, because you’re supposed to stimulate and educate young minds, and when you dumb it down, well huh, suddenly girls aren’t doing as well as they used to. Funny, that.
I could rant about sexisim and education all day, but I’ll stop now.
When my grandparents were in school they used to have this test called the eleven-plus. This test determined whether a child was ‘smart enough’ to go to a grammar school, or whether they were better suited to a technical college. A lot more girls passed these tests than boys, and as you can probably guess, the establishment didn’t like that at all. To rectify this ‘problem’ they set the pass marks higher for girls because, according to them, “girls mature faster than boys” (yeah, that old pile of bullshit).
A lot of smart girls had their opportunities robbed by a system that discounted their abilities, while less intelligent boys got a huge leg up. Same shit, different generation.
Not to mention that education is seen as a women’s job at pre-school, primary and hell even secondary school levels. But then as soon as you look at higher education, men dominate the profession as lecturers and professors. Teaching children is definitely not easier than teaching university students who by and large already know how to learn and how to take care of themselves, and yet teaching kids is seen as easy and a soft choice. Education for children is seen as little more than a childcare role (which is massively undervalued but that’s an argument for another time), but higher education is seen as this beacon of intelligence.
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