Male Education - Boys Are Now Two Years Behind | Bettina Arndt

FinnishAxolotl · 2023-06-13T13:05:33+00:00

I remember in elementary school, around 4th grade, the girls all got to go to a program where they learned Japanese. I was very jealous and always wondered why the boys couldn't go to it.

Wasteofoxyg3n · 2023-06-13T11:07:18+00:00

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RoryTate · 2023-06-13T13:11:06+00:00

I applaud what is being done here, but this "men in decline" narrative hides the fact that boys have always had poorer outcomes regarding finishing high school, ever since the inception of standardized education more than a century ago. And because this "turnabout is fair play" attitude is encouraged, for many gender ideologues this is celebrated as justified revenge, in a "How does it feel when the shoe is on the other foot?" reaction. However, it turns out that this idea of "historic male privilege" is just the apex fallacy rearing its ugly head once again. Because yes, the top 1% of men excelled a century ago in education, and far outclassed everyone else, but throughout most of the industrialized world's recent history the vast majority of young men were pulled from school either temporarily or permanently to support their families once they reached the age of 15 or 16. In fact, that's the only way many rural households could even survive. Seeding and harvesting were a massive undertaking, and the majority of the physical labour fell on the men of the family, while it was only other family members who had the free time to finish schooling because they weren't required out in the fields every day.

It's just another way these ideologues love to rewrite history. I wouldn't take the following percentages as too exact – because measuring high school graduation is actually annoyingly difficult – but notice in this chart how even in 1960 in the US it is men who are lagging behind by 3% regarding high school graduation rates. That means that for anyone entering school in 1940, it would be the boys who would be least likely to get their high school diploma. You know, I don't recall ever hearing how the 1940's era was so unjust for the average man, yet here we are, staring at the results of those systemic barriers against men. By the time the 1980's hit, the gap was beginning to close, and men were catching up, but since around 2000 it's been a return to the historic lower rates for men. The suggested trend of increasing graduation rates in this particular chart is highly misleading, but the widening disparity for men is supported by many other observations, so that at least is much more meaningful and indicative of real world trends. And this disparity has actually been exacerbated by recent government policy everywhere in the world (such as the "No Child Left Behind" program in the US, in which it is most often boys who are not attending school, failing classes, not earning enough credits, and yet are still given "diplomas" through lesser alternate "supplemental" education – such as vocational training in low-skill trades, which is almost exclusively male in nature – or enrolled in rushed night classes before they have officially failed a course, so that school districts can hide the problems they are creating for men).

Simply put, the barriers against boys in education are much more long standing, and run far deeper, than many of us realize, or perhaps can even imagine.

Wasteofoxyg3n · 2023-06-13T17:52:06+00:00

The government wants to keep men uneducated so they can turn us into mindless wage slaves. They need us to do all the shitty jobs that no-one in their right mind would want to do if given the choice.

hehimCA · 2023-06-13T15:43:17+00:00

Never heard her voice before. But she’s right and it’s so obvious, too. Good to see this getting a little traction at least.

ElectronicBoss2845 · 2023-06-14T19:10:35+00:00

Posting to review once I’m off work

Title	Male Education - Boys Are Now Two Years Behind \| Bettina Arndt
Author	IronJohnMRA
Upvotes	344
Comments	47
Date	June 13, 2023 10:59 AM UTC (3 years ago)
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