British study shows children are brainwashed into thinking Girls are better than Boys at schoolwork. Wich make the boys underachive.

sens1t1vethug · 2013-06-20T17:54:40+00:00

Very interesting study! This sort of evidence is very important for men's rights and, unfortunately, far rarer than it ought to be because (imho) of a bias in academia towards seeing women/girls as automatically victimised and vulnerable. I'm looking forward to reading it in detail later. Thanks.

father_figa · 2013-06-20T17:38:24+00:00

I keep hearing stuff like this. I see that many people seem to study it and many people love to make these headlines, but few people really seem to be making changes. Part of the problem is that this is a cultural shift that has been happening in the west for a long time. It has become institutionalized. At this point, it would take more than policy change from the government to make changes happen. Men would have to desire to be educators of young children, which in turn would mean a shift in thinking of men as predators would have to occur. In order for men to be thought of as caretakers and teachers men would have to assume a larger role as caretakers of children. The work place would have to adjust to men playing a larger role at home. The basic philosophy of masculinity would have to adjust to include scholarship as a universal manly/human trait.

Fixing this problem is at a point that it will take a few generations to see positive academic results for boys. This is intersting because ultimately we are producing a culture of wayward boys and young men. A culture of angry men who have no place and no productive work with which to define their lives. Eventually we will run out of prison space. How bad will it actually have to get before people actually start working this problem?

Tusse · 2013-06-20T23:34:35+00:00

Best of all, boys feeling bad about this will be femsplained by feminists as a throwback of male entitlement(and proof of general male uselessness) and thus being a healthy education towards true gender neutrality, to start them off 'on the right way' when young.

namae_nanka · 2013-06-21T04:30:10+00:00

Sweden: Boys suffer as teachers inflate girls' school grades That, at least, is the conclusion of a Swedish study which has shown that boys are getting lower grades at the end of the ninth grade - the last year of compulsory schooling - despite doing just as well in the national exams. Boys' final grades in English, mathematics and Swedish are clearly lower than those of girls, compared to their results in the national tests, reported Dagens Nyheter.

Finland The average school grades in mathematics were 7.5 among boys and 7.7 among girls. Nevertheless, boys performed better in the ninth-grade assessment than girls in all grade brackets. Girls accounted for a higher proportion than boys among pupils with an excellent school grade, but their proportion was clearly smaller among those who performed excellently in the assessment when compared with boys.

Peter Zohrab points out for New Zealand: But the excessive numbers of female teachers may have even more sinister effects on the education of boys. Here is a quotation from the abstract of a research article from Fergusson, D.M., M. LLoyd, and L.J. Horwood (1991): Teacher Evaluations of the Performance of Boys and Girls. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies Vol. 26, No.2: "These comparisons revealed systematic tendencies for teachers to evaluate the performance of girls more favourably than the performance of boys.... in the areas of reading and written expression teachers showed consistent tendencies to evaluate the performance of girls more favourably than the boys even after adjustment for gender differences in objective test scores were (sic) made." The authors of this study state that the reason for this bias might be that teachers unconsciously included an evaluation of the students' behaviour and personality in their evaluation of the students' work. They also say: "It is also possible that the tendency for teachers to evaluate girls more favourably is, in part, an unintended consequence of misapplication of gender equity principles."

UK even goes a step further, with coursework a part of its GCSEs

2013-06-20T17:07:41+00:00

This is a direct result of feminism.

7wap · 2013-06-20T18:51:45+00:00

PAYWALL! Would someone liberate this article for us?

2013-06-20T20:12:02+00:00

I have a hormonal male teenager who is academically a high achiever and daughters also who also are. I strongly believe that if you teach your child to have a good academic work ethic then they will regardless of gender.

I appreciate what these studies are trying to highlight, the feminisation of education, but I wonder how much of parents sitting back on their laurels with regards to the future of their child should be factored in to these studies. Poor parenting makes for poor children.

Raising children with confidence in their abilities leads to children achieving better.

notnotnotfred · 2013-06-20T17:56:32+00:00

Stereotype threat has been pretty discredited as being a major factor in achievement overall. This is all short term priming, which studies too often extrapolate into long term consequence.

2013-06-21T00:08:37+00:00

Did you spell which incorrectly on purpose?

SchalaZeal01 · 2013-06-20T22:02:33+00:00

In my opinion, it doesn't help that we deem studiousness and being intelligent (not savant-levels, but more than average) as dorky, unappealing, and even worth bullying. Some even deem it as girly.

It certainly was my experience growing up (I was born 1982) in Canada.

I "lost points" on the 'manliness scale' because I could effortlessly do school work (without even studying) and actually liked being challenged intellectually. I eventually got bored as the curriculum would only go 1/3 as fast as me, and I became a bit disruptive, then quietly bored.

CosmicKeys · 2013-06-21T06:59:32+00:00

Thanks for posting!

Gringot · 2013-06-21T13:00:36+00:00

Jacobtk · 2013-06-21T18:09:45+00:00

This is not the first time a study found that biases in favor of girls result in boys underperforming. The common thread in all the studies I have read is that the shift to focusing on girls' needs combined with the lack of male teachers has resulted in boys failing in subjects they once soared in.

I should come as no surprise that if teachers keep telling boys that girls are better than them that boys will stop trying. It should also come as no surprise that if teachers keep ignoring boys' interests and needs that boys will stop trying. These are obvious, yet we still see people allowing boys to bottom out. And instead of looking at ways to engage boys by making the courses geared towards boys' interests and needs, people would rather blame video games and movies. The irony, of course, is that most current games require many of the skills children use to learn. So it is always funny when people claim that boys are lazy and stupid when these boys have spent hours memorizing virtual maps the size of a theme park, the location of weapons, and the exact speed and button presses needed to do something not jut for one game, but for half a dozen.

Boys are not stupid or lazy; they are simply bored, shamed, and ignored.

Po-tato · 2013-06-22T20:09:21+00:00

UR stoopid. That is why you fail. Idiot

HilscherFarms · 2013-06-21T06:07:08+00:00

It's 'which makes,' nevermind starting the sentence that way. I'm with Lampshade, it's so ironic it must be an attempt at humor.

Title	British study shows children are brainwashed into thinking Girls are better than Boys at schoolwork. Wich make the boys underachive.
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