Boys failing at school
Unfortunately I didn’t get to watch the whole of the news tonight, specifically Close Up at 7pm (TV1) where Susan Woods ws going to solve the world’s problems of boys failing at school.
But I did see one snippet about male illiteracy, with young men (oops - boys) failing at school, and the impact it was having on their enrolling on manual jobs - in this case mechanics (I think).
Wht amazed me is that for all the illiterate young men (oops - boys) entering the trades, and for all the various experts that pouted the problems, they only interviewed one apprentice, even though plenty featured in background shots.
And she was a girl.
Why can’t an article lamenting the failure of the education system to cater for boys, an article about boys, not interview a boy? But instead a girl (who as far as I can tell, was heavily outnumbered by male enrollees)?
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Because of the Kiwi lace curtain that’s why.
Remember the socialist iron curtain whereby the press was so full of communist control freaks as to be reduced to propoganda. Welcome to it’s newer version - socialist feminist lace curtain whereby information is spun by the triumvirate of feminist press/academia/government keeping the masses as ignorant as possible about facts which would make the feminist dogma look both idiotic and sadly abusive.
Now after feminizing so many schools to the point that many boys switch off, thier next step will be to want to change the way boys are raised. I’m afraid that’s coda for brainwash them further with feminist values which only give privelige to females and burdensome responsibilities to males.
Ah yes, as Socrates so wisely said -give me the boy until he is seven years old, and I will give you the man. Exactly what the feminazzis have in mind, having defathered so many already. To take them away from all those myriad ‘patriarchal’ role models (dads and other adult male mentors) so as to cast them in thier own image.
Sick, scary, Orwellian shit.
Comment by Stephen — Wed 23rd August 2006 @ 6:28 am
I am of the opinion that this is an issue of the utmost importance. I clearly remember the bias teaching, the preferential treatment given out to female students while I was at school. It is a shame that this is still happening, and in fact has gotten worse! Where are the male teachers? Where are the positve, non-sporting male role models? Where are the polices to ensure the well-being of the young men of New Zealand? If female on male statatory rape is condoned(which it seems to be), we must all move to protect the male youth of this country. If we fail to act, we are failing young men, the most important asset in New Zealand.
Comment by tonyf — Wed 23rd August 2006 @ 3:37 pm
Tony says -
Well Tony,
Here’s one guy who got his Teaching credentials in nz then buggered off overseas ASAP.
Male Primary School teacher in nz.
What a joke!
Shit pay.
Many parents who try to treat you like you’re not the educational expert, but they are.
Faculty feminists looking to cut you down at every turn.
Hoards of underparented (usually from the 300,000 defathered) kids.
The ever present danger of being branded a paedophile by idiots with axes to grind.
State education in socialist-feminist dominated nz guys?
Forget it, I’d rather chew razorblades.
By contrast I’m here in Korea getting twice the pay and twenty times the respect I’d ever get there.
I reckon if you want the best for your boys in nz you should opt for boy only private schools if you can. They’re head and shoulders above the state funded gynocentric feminist indoctination centres many Kiwi kids now go to.
But hey, what do I know?
I’ve only done 23 years of full-time pastoral service in nz, gone through one of it’s teacher training colleges and spent time in primary and intermediate schools on practicums.
And I’m only a mere male too! LOL!
Go figure.
Comment by Stephen — Wed 23rd August 2006 @ 5:07 pm
My point here wasn’t that schools are failing boys - which we all know, anyway. It was that why, in an article foccussing on failing boys, was the only student interviewed, a girl?
This is not un-akin to boy racers, where on several ocassions several have been featured / interviewed, that have decidedly feminine attributes, notably breasts.
It is simply another swipe at down and out boys by labelling the ‘crime’ of fast car racing, clearly enjoyed by young people of both sexes , as a ‘boy’ crime; [I don't have the archival film snippets, but I clearly recall at least two fatures on Holmes a few years back, which interviewd drivers that looked female to me; even in today's DomPost, females involved in the face car racing scene are referred to as 'car enthusiast', rather than the more derogatory term] And why ‘boy’ racers? are they not young men?.
Except here the media is content to further kick failing boys whilst they’re down, by instead deferring to the young lady for comment.
Comment by Al D Rado — Thu 24th August 2006 @ 9:26 am