Normal boys are targeted in school: 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4Today's Schools are Toxic to Boys: 6 Stossel
Is any of what you've seen today about public
schools and boys a surprise or a shock? How would you relate the general
treatment of boys (if this is common in the education system) to Ch 6:
Targeting Men? What can or should be done?
3 comments:
In these videos, it is a surprise to me. Not the fact that boys are more rowdy and disruptive than girls lol, but that they are being treated in such a way, that we are to blame them for it. I think we must adapt our thinking to suit other learning preferences, such as allowing boys to read comics and read about what interests them, although we must give them a balance. It is also scientifical that boys mature slower than girls, therefore, why are we to use science against them? Boys need stimulated more than girls in a classroom, they need activity, so, if it helps them learn, why arent we helping them in this way? Also, why make them the fault of an illness that clearly has female victims? We are no better or worse than males, only in different areas are we different. Also, this is similar to targeting men, because wherever there is a chance, our culture blames the men, becuase men don't speak out as much as women. Like Bias said, people are afraid to confront feminists. They say what they want and they hear and see what they want, this is the same with everything.
It's not a surprise to me because (a) I have seen it before and (b), I have learned about it. It's definitely sad because most people don't even realize it. The relation to the bias chapter is that either way, men are being suppressed for who they are. They aren't allowed to act like themselves. Furthermore, guys are looked down upon in this day and age. To be honest, there's not much we can do except raise awareness. Furthermore, we can teach our children what it is to be a man and even when in public schools they get disciplined for being boyish, teach them that they aren't bad, its just a boy thing.
I hadn't really heard about it directly before but I must say it did not come as a surprise. I would say that this relates to how the men of today are treated just like we read in BIAS. I think, however, that this is less on purpose. The targeting of men, is on purpose, doing these things because they want to get their way, but the targeting of the boys in school comes from a seat of either being ignorant or oblivious (or both), the teachers know that they have to reprimand the children for when they fall short of the behavioural expectation, but they do not know that they hold the wrong behavioural expectation in the first place. I think that people should be educated (ironic, yes) of the ways they fall short and the ways the educational system falls short and work to fix that.
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