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| CAMPUS TURMOIL BEGINS IN HIGH SCHOOL |
| 2016-01-04 |
| h/t Instapundit A month before the Yale Halloween meltdown, I had a bizarre and illuminating experience at an elite private high school on the West Coast. I'll call it Centerville High. I gave a version of a talk that you can see here, on Coddle U. vs. Strengthen U. (In an amazing coincidence, I first gave that talk at Yale a few weeks earlier). The entire student body -- around 450 students, from grades 9-12 -- was in the auditorium. There was plenty of laughter at all the right spots, and a lot of applause at the end, so I thought the talk was well received. But then the discussion began, and it was the most unremittingly hostile questioning I've ever had. I don't mind when people ask hard or critical questions, but I was surprised that I had misread the audience so thoroughly. My talk had little to do with gender, but the second question was "So you think rape is OK?" ...After the first dozen questions I noticed that not a single questioner was male. I began to search the sea of hands asking to be called on and I did find one boy, who asked a question that indicated that he too was critical of my talk. But other than him, the 200 or so boys in the audience sat silently. In modern education theory boys are just, willfully, misbehaving girls---they learn to shut up (and not to get too good grades in tests---I'm speaking from experience with my son), or they learn the taste of Rytalin. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Have the head gurl sit in the middle of the room without her bag on a simple chair. Remind everyone no staring. Being the centre of attention is only fun for so so long. WARNING. Some gurls are like Golden Retrievers, they thrive on sitting in the middle. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-01-04 20:47 |
| #3 For the last couple of years, after I retired, I took a job as a substitute teacher in local (upper middle class) middle schools. It was an eye-opening experience. One of my earliest classes was for Math. There was a small amount of noise/horse play at one of the groups, they were all placed in groups of 6. I went over and told the boys who were the loudest that they had to settle down and work quietly.........then I told the girls that I had seen them be the instigators of the whole situation and that THEY were just as responsible. You would have thought I'd just sprouted horns. Over time the same sort of thing happened, it was always a surprise to the kids when I held the girls responsible for their behavior as well as the boys. Most of the kids seemed to appreciate this. I spoke to the Asst. Principal who was the ultimate disciplinarian about this and he admitted that the double standard was there and hard to break since he was never in the room to see who was the arsonist. The drive to treat boys as misbehaving girls is well embedded in the teaching profession starting in Kindergarten. My wife, a Kindergarten teacher, can cite chapter and verse about this. Not ALL teachers and administrators are bad but the majority are and that means that all boys will get nailed by this at least a few times. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-01-04 08:46 |
| #2 22-23 is the new 5-6? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-01-04 08:26 |
| #1 Turn today's boys into emasculated wimps..... .....consign your granddaughters to rape by foreigners. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2016-01-04 05:21 |