I must be dreaming: Just in case people are still confused

^^ This

-Liv

Hell yeah! All of this needs to happen.

but I’m curious, what do you mean by equality in the education system?  What’s going on there?

At the root?
it’s the literacy thing. and the recess thing.
Literacy:
Phonics(learning words by breaking them down into units) is the best way to learn english.
in an effort to ‘equalize’ elementary classrooms because boys were advancing literacy quicker than girls, feminists advocated the whole language(figure out what the word means with ‘context clues’ and ‘reading and listening’) which girls out preformed boys.
for all that girls on phonics out  preformed girls on whole language, at least this way girls were doing better than boys was the thought.

Well it turns out that if boys really don’t learn how to learn how to read in elementary they really don’t ever learn how to read. TV replaces books really fast.
 

Recess:

Boys (and some girls)  need to play to learn better, but aren’t allowed ‘aggressive’ play and in a growing number of schools there’s no recess at all. and are required to sit in a desk for 8 hours  day. This leads to all sorts of misbehavior -which when you add in the fact that 73% of elementary teachers are women being taught that boys that act out need to be disciplined and ‘must learn to respect women now or they never will’, that pilling is a solution….
you end up with boys being diagnosed with ‘developmental disorders’ (ADD, ADHD, ODD…etc) at a 2x-5x the rate of girls. 

Add both together and you have a rising rate of boys dropping out of class, being pushed into Special ED, becoming delinquent, not being able to process upper level english skills, and overall being a ball of fail.


There’s pushback by feminists on this. They insist that it’s all actually misogyny(but actually hurting boys), that only ‘conservatives’ are presenting the data(not true) ‘maybe girls are just smarter’(oh gods do we even have to go there), ‘oh but this effect inner city boys even more than suburban is must be a race thing’(race increases marginalization you say?). and whole bunch of whine about the ‘greater patriarchy’(red herring).

All that really needs to happen is an affirmative action on male elementary teachers(feminists can’t decide if they actually want this-men benefiting? but destroying the notion that teaching is ‘women’s work’ hmm…) Bringing back phonics(easy) and bringing back a long or a pair of short recesses (idiots think it’s a ‘waste of time’-are wrong)

easy enough right?

My psych teacher told me yesterday that if you hold a boy back a year then the differences in grades almost completely vanishes, because boys—SHOCKER!—develop differently than girls, and vice-versa.

So if you put you daughter into kindegarden when she’s 5, then you should wait till your son is 6-7 to put him in the same class. People may not realize, but those “short” time differences make a world of a difference in developmental ability.

Same thing with having two 30-minute recess breaks a day. That helps bolster young men’s marks as well. Boys need more room and time to burn off excess steam than girls. If you give them that extra room and time, then BAM! Marks go up.

Our society has taken to this ideology that all children and all people learn the same way, and at the same rate; this is undeniably false.

-Liv