Students sit for hours at a time, without lively debate, without direct competition, and without enough tactile stimulation and we wonder why boys don't do as well as girls in high school. The whole school environment seems blatently anti-testosterone. What do you think?
2006-11-20 13:54:23 · 17 answers · asked by Jimie 1 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
With almost 75% of teachers in American public schoold being female, is it any suprise that there is a bias in favour of girls?
According to the Maine Department of Education, 68% of Special Education students are male. You think that the needs of boys aren't being met in mainstream classes?
In a survey of all Maine schools between 2001 and 2005, girld performed better in every category except science -- better in reading writing and math. Coincidence? I don't think so.
I firmly believe that we need to turn to segregated schools. Boys schools teach in a way that is compatible with how boys learn, and girls schools, well, girls schools won't be a whole hell of a lot different than what's out there now.
2006-11-20 15:03:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although I graduated from high school almost ten years ago, I don't think it was slanted towards girls then. There were about equal numbers of males and females in the advanced placement classes. Unfortunately the massive weight of educating the masses has weighed heavily on our education system. It cannot afford enough teachers and hence teaching styles to truly teach each student in the manner in which they will learn best. You are absolutely right that more tactile stimulation would be much better, but it would be equally as beneficial for girls, as would debate and the fostering of healthy direct competition. These are features that are needed in the real world for everyone, perhaps moreso than balancing chemical equations and the true meaning of the billboard in the Great Gatsby.
As for direct competition, what about team sports and debate team?
In some ways, the traits you are looking for in a high school would be pro teenager, in that during that time of life, teenagers have more pent up energy and should be taught ways to deal with it.
Do you have proof that boys do not do as well as girls in high school? I was unaware that such statistics existed as many of the more recent (although the issues are at least attempting to be addressed) show higher failure rates for girls in, at minimum, math and science which are the fields that are paying the most and growing the most rapidly after high school.
And here may be my slightly more irrational (though I personally don't think so) female side coming out. If the schools are so slanted towards girls, why do women still typically make less money for the same work as men? If they are slanted, why does it matter if men still end up making more in the long run?
There are my pearls of "wisdom" or lack thereof.
2006-11-20 14:25:26 · answer #2 · answered by Schnibbs 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's nothing stopping you from forming study groups for your lively debate, is there? Or did you think that the classroom was the only place to learn? If you want to compete, do it by studying and getting better grades than everyone else, not by knocking a system which is trying to do what it can for as many pupils as it can.
If the system was geared, as you say, toward lively free debate, and it disadvantaged girls, would that be OK with you?
Rest assured though, when you leave high school you will have a distinct advantage as a male, other things being equal. Women have to do a much better job than men, just to be considered equal.
That should comfort you a bit.
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2006-11-20 14:15:25 · answer #3 · answered by Labsci 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is not slanted. I'm a boy in middle school and it no. Girls have higher knowledge rating at else some of them. you have to look at the facts. boys mostly do focus as much on the books then the libarian holding the books. = girls.
2006-11-20 15:37:24 · answer #4 · answered by Ian W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its no longer as undesirable. i recommend, there continues to be the probelm with cliques and not being very supportive of others yet there arent a team of only 3 or 4 ladies who're 'plastics' who're like queen bee and can only stroll suitable over all and sundry else.... or a minimum of, no longer that i've got observed in highschool yet.
2016-12-30 16:25:50 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As someone who just graduated high school four years ago, I can assure you, the absence of testosterone amped, crude, and disruptive boys would have made concentrating on the learning at hand a whole lot easier.
2006-11-20 14:06:54 · answer #6 · answered by nunya 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Man, finally someone gets it. I am a seventeen year old high school student- I have been saying this for years. Our school systems are in need of massive reform...if only I had the power...(And one day I will! haha!) No, but seriously, you are totally right, trust me.
2006-11-20 15:13:21 · answer #7 · answered by fslcaptain737 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you've got a good point. At the moment they are trialling "boy-friendly" classroom environments where I live, and so far boys' grades, socialisation and self-esteem have greatly increased.
2006-11-20 14:30:40 · answer #8 · answered by Girl Machine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree man ! That's why women make 70% of men's salaries for the exact same job ! Even moreso, the female representation of CEOs, Board of Directors, Presidents, US Senators, etc. is nearing 10% !!
2006-11-20 14:03:04 · answer #9 · answered by GratefulDad 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
jimie, there's a great deal of research to support what you are have stated and it was certainly my experience in high school. don't listen to those first two answers, they are ignorant and uneducated. i got straight A's in high school and went to college for free on academic scholarships, but that doesn't mean that high school was not geared to making girls more successful at the expense of boys.
2006-11-20 14:04:58 · answer #10 · answered by craminator 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋