Boys' Education Disadvantages

True, though I think the parent was discussing the dearth of male teachers, not students. E.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/02/the-ex...

I hope your political beliefs aren't implicitly biasing your teaching against the males.The primary education system seems to be failing males (more female college graduates every year) and it wouldn't help if you added to that.I'm curious, would it be an issue to you if all the boys in the class were "beyond" the girls?

It's not sexist to point out a fact: "Girls Get Better Grades Than Boys". This is almost universally true where statistics can be found, internationally and across all subjects. It's factual that girls perform better in school: you can decide what the reason for that is, but there must be a reason. It's the essential purpose of science to try and figure out the reasons - as they have here.You then ask: Why are there just as many male academics as there are female? I w

There's been good research in the education field around this problem. There are ways educators can augment their lessons to cater to boys. Unfortunately, not all educators do this and it remains an experience heavily weighted towards the behavior and temperament of girls. Graduation and college attendance rates are the opposite now of when a push to promote girls in schools occurred. Now might be the time to do the same for boys.

Same era, same experience here. I don't think it's fair to ascribe too much blame on women teachers, though.The overwhelming majority of them genuinely care about their male students, acknowledge their different learning styles professionally and give them as good an opportunity as any competent male teacher would.If you wanted to make a big difference, you wouldn't need to change gender ratios through social engineering. The small minority of female teachers that undermine

Men and boys are demonised and ridiculed daily all across our media, and education is in my experience biased towards males also. Teachers are mostly female, and I remember at school normal male behaviour being criticised, and a general attitude of 'girls work harder than boys', 'girls are better behaved than boys' etc.If you want some hard data to back this up, take a look at the stats about male/female university attendance in the UK. You'll see it's becom

As a long-time teacher in multiple countries, I've also had this concern. I realize it's a fairly heretical belief to hold on this site but I think boys are systematically discriminated against in most western societies.As a child that teachers (nearly all women) tended to be biased against boys and downright dismissive of male dominated interests such as science fiction, video games or arm-wrestling. Talking with students in recent years, I get the impression that my teachers wer

I think any interpretation of this phenomenon that doesn't include the phrase "it depends" is doing it injustice.We're now in the first time where the implicit (and explicit) bias against women in education, especially in STEM, is decreasing (but not gone!) and the way girls are socialized compared to boys (and maybe even some developmental differences and movement requirements?) in general seems to make them better prepared for proper studying and learning at schools.T

A suggestion from the article:> What is behind this discrimination? One possibility is that teachers mark up students who are polite, eager and stay out of fights, all attributes that are more common among girls. In some countries, academic points can even be docked for bad behaviour. Another is that women, who make up eight out of ten primary-school teachers and nearly seven in ten lower-secondary teachers, favour their own sex, just as male bosses have been shown to favour male underling

There's a gender issue in the balances of sexes as reported in the article.I don't know how American schools work, so I can't comment on your question.