The female-dominated educational system makes little boys act like little girls?

Question

''We are completely void of anything to do with God. Teachers can't touch a child - even to hug a crying child. Young boys are on Ritalin and a lot of the problem is because we have a female-dominated educational system which tries to make little boys act like little girls.''

--William "Bill" Murray, addressing the "God and Country II" rally, speaking about the need for prayer & Bible recitations in school

Will bringing back God to the classroom stop the boys from taking Ritalin? Whatabout the girls on this drug?

Answer 1

What the heck? Don't swallow everything; guys still act like guys in schools. Bringing Christianity into the classroom will simply make us like Tibet many years ago: the monks were treated as gods, they ate out of bowls made of human skulls, and their drums were made of human skin.

Answer 2

I hear you, and I believe that the inability for teachers to physically discipline a child (paddling) has eliminated the authority in schools. Kids dont have the same respect for their teachers as they did when i was in school. The education system, realizing this pushes all disciplinary issues on the parents. They wash their hands of this responsibility because they are so afraid of law suits. For sure, parents are ultimately responsible, but as a parent, I want my child to recognize that other authorities must be obeyed. People like Police officers, government officials, coaches, teachers, Bosses. Not just Dads voice should drive children into obedience. Hillary Clinton states "It takes a Village."

God in schools is a positive thing. National Anthem before sports events are a good thing. Boy Scouts and 4 H are good things. In the past, we gave kids a chance by teaching them to follow the rules. Take away the rules, take away the discipline, take away God, and you get Ritalin doped kids staring at "another brick in the wall."

Ritalin is a compensation that society has injected into children to make up for the lack of disciplinary methods. Disciplinary methods that worked when we were young are now seen as barbaric. They are replaced with a "feel good" society that produces selfish and weak willed individuals.

Answer 3

Actually, you are correct. This topic has been brought to the public's attention recently in Newsweek and some other magazines.

The current educational system is based on female behavior and not males. So yes, boys are being dumbed down (so to speak).

However you are wrong to assume that it is just girls being put on psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin. Many girls are as well. I think it's a school psychologists answer to everything. What we actually have are kids who are not getting enough physical activity and to help level off behavior and to top it off...we have educators in support of doing away with recesses all together. STUPID STUPID STUPID people! In addition, the school lunch programs suck. No other way to put it. They feed our kids the same garbage they feed prison inmates because they (the schools) get kick back from it.

No, bringing God back into the classroom won't help. Christianity is a male dominated religion and bringing that back into the classroom will shift the thinking back to the 1800's and thats not fair to women.

What we need are educators who are better trained in child development rather than the basic educational model. Any time a child doesn't fit into that "mold" they are considered abnormal. In reality, what we have are underpaid educators who are stuck babysitting at-risk kids and are getting stressed out. They are left with zero tolerance for kids who are just being kids.

We need parents who have the courage to stand up to the teachers when needed. And we need people to understand that boys and girls are different and that their behavior will reflect as much.

For the record those drugs that educators and doctors have been so quick to put kids on can cause heart failure among other things. They are dangerous.

Did you know that the U.S. is the only country that actually drugs kids for being kids? Yes indeed, we love our children so much that we drug them. This country has a long long long way to go....

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Answer 4

Bringing God back into the classroom will not do jack for these little boys. The parents have to take steps to take care of their children and quit leaving the responsibility on the teachers. And bringing God into the classroom will only make it to where we are a one minded society, not thinking that technically religion is a theory, like evolution, which is not allowed in the classroom either. Female teachers have nothing to do with kids being depressed. Parents need to pay more attention to their children and teach God on their own time, not during the time that we are supposed to learn subjects that will help us in our careers.

Answer 5

You're totally wrong. Stop trying to blame every woe in our society on the "lack of God." It's all about how your child is raised, don't worry about all the other children, that's not your responsibility. Worry about raising your child correctly, so you won't have to take the easy way out and blame everything he does wrong in life on the school system, Ritalin, or the "lack of God." Okay.

Answer 6

not really....too many kids (boys and girls) are on Ritalin because parents don't want to have to deal with their children (or don't know how)....if the children had been disciplined to begin with, they wouldn't be acting up...we can't punish our children anymore without fear of going to jail or having the children taken from us (spanking, or whipping, etc)....i got my @ss whipped several times as a kid (and for good reasons), and I don't have any emotional scars, AND I know how to act.

As far as God in the classroom...I, personally, don't agree with it for the simple fact of the diversity of religious beliefs....if we are going to put God in the classroom, then we would also have to put every other deity that ever "existed", along with another class for athiests, another for agnostics, another for Satanists, and so on and so on...religion should be taught at home....I do think that a basic "religion" class should be taught (unbiased) outlining different religions and the beliefs of those religions, b/c there is entirely too much religious ignorance in this country, but to specifically emphasize God and Christianity, no....diversity is what makes the US....the US...we have the freedom to choose how we want to believe, and there shouldn't be any bias taught to our children.

Answer 7

It is funny; when the dominant becomes dominated -there is a foul cry. I am a man, been thru some educational systems and I am happy it is the way it i now. Education was like a male thing and all the ladies had to do was to tag along with us. We would want to see them down so taht we can flex our muscles to pretend to save them. I feel positively challenged to see our women wakening us up intellectually. Ladies keep up the good works!!

Answer 8

religion has nothing to do with children and ritalin or boys acting like girls. The parents are the influence on children and reading the bible will have as much impact on non-xtian kids as reading alice in wonderland. Or they could become more anti-xtian for the forceful way it was given to them

Answer 9

Anybody that says that is an idiot. We need to let kids enjoy more physical activity throughout the day to help them burn off energy. It has nothing to do with gender or sexuality. We make them sit still all day then wonder why they get so fat. It is largely due to features in the educational system, but I don't see how you can call these things masculine or feminine. It certainly has nothing to do with religion.

Answer 10

Depending on which God you bring into the classroom, the little boys may have more problems than ever. *sigh*