Do Schools Discriminate Against Boys?

offtable · 2022-03-29T06:33:09+00:00

Yes, the school System is not for boys.

RingosTurdFace · 2022-03-29T08:51:29+00:00

Yes. So much so in fact that even the normally woke/feminist BBC covered it:

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672.amp

Puzzleheaded-Heat174 · 2022-03-29T07:01:00+00:00

In one word : yes

pacsatonifil · 2022-03-29T10:46:34+00:00

Yes and we all know about it and nothing has changed. I used to think single sex schools were dumb, but now I think we need them more than ever.

Inevitable_Cup_70 · 2022-03-29T08:37:07+00:00

Yes.

Styles_Jh · 2022-03-29T08:04:06+00:00

Yeah

buficek7_CZ · 2022-03-29T10:29:54+00:00

From my own experience I can say: yes, they do

YoungQuahogMoney · 2022-03-29T12:52:09+00:00

Of course they do. My story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pettyrevenge/comments/t4dta2/false\_accuser/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3

Marty-the-monkey · 2022-03-29T09:35:43+00:00

Yes, and the problem is that it's a very inherent and systematic discrimination, which has come about over decades (maybe even centuries) of developments within the educational institutions.

Condensed and simplified for expediency:

Education, pedagogy and didactic have gotten a reputation for being primarily fields for women. Taking care of children and educating youth is something women do, and men who want a career doing that are, in extreme situation, seen as lesser or sometimes creepy. The prestige within these fields are, in a lot of circles, non existing.

This has created a perpetuating issue of primarily women being in charge of education (from kindergarten till grad school), which means women (naturally due to over representation) get to organize and decide which values are important to imbue the institution with.

So gradually, the ideal student have basically become the sweet and attentive little girl, who does her things, keeps organized and stays within the prescribed expectations and never rocks the boat.

All the ideals we used to have for women, the teachers have carried over from generation to generation. The good and proper girl from finishing school slowly became the ideal student at large. The values we normally attribute to boys (and tomgirls) were cast aside and devalued in an educational setting. And since it's these people who also excel within the institution, they perpetuates these values when they are put in charge (it gave them success, so it should work for everyone else too).

Non of this are deliberately or intentionally done to discriminate (despite it being the result), making it so much harder to talk about, because it falls within the same systematic problem as racism. It's systems upon systems and traditions of 'how we have always done' resulting in the current state.

Subsequently, it also means that the solution to this is to push and incentives men to be more active in the educational fields, which are the moment (as mentioned) considered so low on the prestige totem pole to make most men not want to.

PsychologicalItem353 · 2022-03-29T13:59:51+00:00

The fact that I was required to do the work of girls made me stressed and I started doing poorly.... Couldn't do shit about it cause I was required to do so with a little thing called group work that was abused to make all the boys throughout my entire time in school to do the girls work while they did nothing at all. When it comes to me... I started doing poorly because I cannot operate with extra work my brain slows down. Causing me to panic and I can't think and I know everything but my brain just goes slow and I become useless. And I having to do such made this daily. Honestly I work better with a group of guys it just is better for me. Usually when I work with women I have major issues and they can't accept the right answers they always feel they are right even if they are not and I would blatantly show them the correct answers and research. Every time I did something like this girls just still think they are right. Guys its a "Damn my bad". When it comes to women/girls I got to do their work for them cause even if I did request to be out the group and put in another its another group of girls " that do their work and do well" when they really don't or I get told no do the work. Literally got suspended before multiple times when I was in school for cussing out girls for instructing me on their work that they know nothing about. If you think that I didn't have to do it I did. Its group work as in projects and shit and you are required to be in a group or you get a grade reduction or no grade. And their are two grades. Your personal grade and the group. The group is usually weighed more at least when I was in school. So if the group did bad but you did good you'd still get a bad grade. Which trapped you into doing all the work if you are a guy. Me having issues with stress affect my thinking this fucked me over cause it happened so often. And teachers who are female at least still do this. Cause "it helped then through school".

Laggod619 · 2022-03-29T07:34:16+00:00

In one word : yes

BrilliantPayment3303 · 2022-03-29T16:56:10+00:00

Fuck yes thay do, oh jimmy is acting out time to fill him up with meds, cant have childrean acting like kids

Glum-One816 · 2022-03-29T19:18:57+00:00

This is a similar situation, but I was typing. "What are the worst experiences of being a special needs male student in schools?" I got negative responses on r/AskMen . They say some stupidest shit against me and I deserve to be bullied, attacked, and abused by other students. I went to a special education school and nobody helped me, including the situation at home was very toxic. I have to delete my thread because I felt like I didn't get much support from them. Eventually, they would say it differently if this was a girl's situation. They said, "Man up!" I did not want to join in r/Askmen anymore. It was toxic, so I join the Men's Rights page instead.

rabel111 · 2022-03-29T23:55:54+00:00

As the bias against boys in education becomes more widely understood and discussed, the feminist academics who engineered this tragedy continue to refuse to acknowledge the harm their sexist attitudes are inflicting on generations of children. What will it take to make education academics wake up from their woke misandry, and start to address discrimination against boys in our schools and academic culture.

urahara64360 · 2022-03-29T10:46:29+00:00

Unless they're gay/effeminate yes.

cleaningmama · 2022-03-30T01:47:37+00:00

It's been a few years since I looked at the information, but early education is geared towards girls. Issues from K-2 teaching often come to crisis for boys around third grade.

Also, early reading often doesn't benefit boys as much as it does girls. Some studies show that boys shouldn't even learn to read until 7. Girls' and boys' development is in different places at that time.

However, those are generalities. I know plenty of boys who learned to read very early indeed (3) and didn't suffer for it.

Despite the early advantages in education, many girls' learning then lags behind later on.

Since my son is still in grade school, I didn't look beyond early education.

In third grade, I had to catch my son up from learning little in first and second grade. He's excellent at reading and math, but his hand writing is slow.

ChadWolf98 · 2022-03-30T13:04:19+00:00

They discriminate against boys simply by making academic success based on memorising stuff, sitting silently, but mostly by making acadeic success based on TIME spent on study vs EFFORT/SKILL.

If you remember homework did you get 1 or 2 hard assignment, or a lot of easy ones thats easy to do but time consuming?

awsdlefthandbutton · 2022-03-29T13:50:29+00:00

Yeah single sex schools work best for boys tbh. Helps get the aggression out of the system and they learn that they aren't as tough as they think they are.

DirtyPartyMan · 2022-03-29T16:37:53+00:00

A little and only if they’re heterosexual.

Title	Do Schools Discriminate Against Boys?
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