A.G.
In my wild neck of the N.A. continent, our teachers association recently decided not to address the disparity of male teachers/role models.
Of course, since irony is lost to most mindless adherents of any orthodoxy, if the gender roles were reversed...well that's just a given.
"B.C. education ministry figures show there are only 9,972 male public-school teachers in B.C., compared to 38,285 females. Other data suggest the number of male teachers under age 35 is only 15 per cent."
"Despite the plethora of data showing the importance of male teachers and role models, across North America, the proportion of men in front of classrooms has dropped to about one in four — from one in three in the 1980s. In typical elementary schools, nine in 10 teachers are women."
Skewed Feminist 'hatred' of the evil patriarchy reared its ugly pedagogic head in the 1970's, that's decades ago for the calendrically challenged, when ADD and ADHD diagnoses were often 90% in boys and methylphenidate drugs like Ritalin, Concerta, Daytrana and Focalin, and amphetamines like Adderall and Dexedrine, were gleefully and primarily prescribed to boys to help girls with their learning.
Boys, future men it would seem, needed to be drugged into compliance.
It was and continues to be a bandwagon of the damned.
I should know, I was there and taught many of them.
Education must be student centred.
Ergo, boys are children and students. Period.
Fatuous books like 1994's Reviving Ophelia further cemented the view that boys were the problem.
Books like The War Against Boys or Why Boys Fail and Boys Adrift are dismissed by non-egalitarian teachers, firmly holding onto a tired dogma which posits that the world would be better without boys becoming men.
And who's going to argue with an elementary school institution which is 90% female?
Lastly, this 'war on boys'?
How's it working so far?