What am I going to do with you boys?
principalquattrano posted in Niteflirt on April 1st, 2006
The local paper just discovered the “gender gap”, err…the male educational gender gap.There always was a gender gap between males and females, and how they were treated, and in fact there still is. Boys are called on more often in class and given more advantages in many ways, while girls are often discouraged from participating. Nobody was particularly concerned about remedying this gender gap until boys started to slip academically. But in spite of this, boys are working mightily to avoid achievement, and talking heads are arguing what should be done about it.
I know what should be done. Let’s look and see what is being done differently from previous generations. There never was a time when all students were not required to work in school, sit quietly, and participate, so that hasn’t changed. And it’s always been the case that grades were based on work turned in, so that hasn’t changed either.
Here’s what’s changed: Nobody actually expects boys to do work, especially their parents, but they are expecting them to somehow learn and become prepared for a life of something besides goofing off and being supported by somebody else.
One “solution” suggested over and over again would be to have separate classes for boys. NOT! This would be the worst possible thing, for two reasons. First, as I said above, boys are already given advantages over girls in classroom treatment. And secondly, when you get a roomful of boys together, they turn into a herd, a pack, with their focus on…playtime! No work gets done at all.
So what should we do? How about, let’s get back to basics, learning things and being tested, and passing. Parents should set an example for their children by actually doing things of an educational nature for their own benefit. The family should take time out from school.
And the kids should take off the damned headphones before they go utterly deaf.
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