The following came in an Oct. 8 email to Cal Catholic.
“Hi there,
“I wanted to follow up on an article by Christina Hoff Sommers that I saw you linked to on your site. I am promoting an infographic this week on how boys and girls perform in schools and thought your readers might be interested: https://bit.ly/16GsLsi.”
The infographic shows that for every 100 females born, 105 males are born.
But for every 100 females earning master’s degrees, 66 males have the same degree.
The infographic discusses several factors, including zero-tolerance policies and the dearth of male teachers.
The statistics in the accompanying article are a good illustration of a major problem in the public schools that should be addressed. If there were more men teachers that would help, but the salaries are too low for many men to support a family. If boys and girls were in separate classes where they could be taught, using slightly different teaching methods, that would benefit both boys and girls. However, if they were separated by gender, some civil libertarian groups would immediately complain and/or sue, charging sexism and discrimination. Males and females are not the same and shouldn’t be taught using the same cookie-cutter instruction methods. I was a teacher for 22 years and I have seen too many boys tune out. If boys and girls were in separate classes, or better yet, separate schools, it would eliminate, or at least reduce, some of the sexual problems, such as the “twerking” that caused a scandal in a San Diego area high school and the problem of teen-age pregnancies. Since the taxes that support schools are a heavy burden on communities, perhaps with separate classes or schools larger class sizes would be feasible. Something has to be done.
Sadly, Sarah, what you say from your real-life knowledge on this subject is too ‘traditional’ in its logic. To quote what we’re hearing from Church hierarchy in other matters – There’s no going back!
Damn the bad fruits and obvious fallout. What we ‘need’ is more female involvement, more money, more sensitivity training, more ‘integration’, more openness to new and different ideas to squelch those nasty truths regarding human nature. That’s the answer! Just keep looking the other way.
Oh, and chain up that evil foot ball.
If you can’t look away, you’ll have to pay for your own blindfold. That’s not in the budget. But take heart. Annakin is the chosen one. We just have to get through the carnage of all that we know and hold dear – younglings included – before he realizes as much and chucks the Evil Emperor over the railing.
The Church and Western Society as a whole is very much like Padme to me, asking rather dumbly if, “The side we thought was fighting for good may actually be the bad guy.”
“No duh,” would be my answer , especially since the supposedly right-thinking Ambassador who is intelligent enough to know better – and did know better once upon a time – did nothing but aid evil by marrying it eyes-wide-open under the misguided notion of milksop agape.
Sara, . Let’s stop spreading the nonsense that teacher’s salaries are too low. I’ve heard that song all my life. Teachers, backed by their unions, are very well paid for what they do.
Barbara,
Especially since they only work less than nine months of the year!
May God have mercy on an amoral America and its very bad “bishops”
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Sarah I agree with everything you said except for the salary part. My ex sister in law is a well paid teacher, she is divorced and lives quite well, nice home and cars too. So I don’t think it’s too low…..I don’t get it. The cost of living is high, so maybe that is the problem. They get paid pretty good money per kid but still they say that it is not enough….some classrooms have about 25 kids or more. I bet that the union leadership makes even more.
Simply put, boys are no longer allowed to be boys. They are being fashioned to be girls. This is happening not only in the United States, but in Canada and Europe as well. God made the sexes different, but because of Marxism, the distinction is going away, and look at the terrible mess we are in.
I have taught single-gender and coed in Catholic schools for 33 years. The problem is less in the schools than outside. It takes men to make boys into men and too many boys grow up without fathers or with ineffective fathers. Even in two-parent families too often it’s still Mom who comes to the conferences or handles the correspondence when Junior is in trouble. Dad always lets Mom take the initiative even when he backs her up, and sons notice that. More male teachers in the schools (especially after grade 3) is important, for I have observed that many boys go through a sort of misogynist stage about ages 11-15 when they suddenly resent taking all their marching orders from women. Strong Dads and male teachers can neutralize that, but they have to be active leaders. Single-gender schools can help a lot, but they can’t replace Dad as a leader is his son’s life.
Tom yes I have read about studies showing that an all boys school actually does better in scores too and do does an all girls schools too. Would be nice to see this society embrace that and if only we would have charter schools that would be all boys and all girls only. Less distraction and perhaps they can finally focus on their education more. : )
Wonder who’s so mad at God the Father and His Son?
…that he should seek to cancel out the man of tomorrow by destroying or corrupting the boy of today?
…to render families leaderless, rudderless, unprotected, and hopeless?
…to render providers muted, sterile, frustrated, enraged?
Just wonder who is so mad at God the Father and His Son to do that?
If we are rude to gentlemen, we may end up with barbarians.
My proverb
I coined that saying because I once read about a woman who was offered a seat on a crowded bus by a young man. The woman took his seat, but proceeded to berate him as being a male chauvinist pig for offering it to her. I thought that that woman cut off her nose to spite her face. We all are rude at times, but we should apologize if it is warranted. I hope nice young men continue to do such things because they will get a lot of thanks from other women. I open doors for men sometimes, too, when their hands are full. It is just common courtesy, and as C.K. Chesterton once said, “The grace of God is in courtesy.” And let men be men — the good protectors of women and children — as they should be. I guess I wrote that because I need to hear it myself at times.
Boys are being feminized. It’s part of the sodomite recruitment agenda.
As the father of two boys and four girls I have long said that our education should be gender-separate. Girls and boys are different all the way down to their genes – they should be respected as different. I am old enough to remember how this all changed. As one who said, even in my youth, that boys and girls are different (and got called names for it) – I know it was the Feminist typhoon which swept all in its wake – leaving destruction. We’re still too scared to begin the clean-up. The (I’m sorry to say – appropriate) response on the part of boys growing to men is to drop out of a system which does not care about them. It’s only going to get worse.