Joanna Gray, writing at the Daily Skeptic, warns "It’s Not Misogyny But Misandry in the Classroom We Need to Worry About." She begins by pointing out:
Imagine the uproar if it was the other way round: 65% of teachers in secondary school and 85% of primary school teachers were men. Schools would be labelled: institutionally misogynistic, it would be lamented that girls had insufficient female role models, and the single-sex dominance would be branded a ‘significant safeguarding concern’. And yet there is bovine blindness about the paucity of male teachers in education today. To repeat the actual fact today: only 35% of secondary and 15% of primary school teachers are men; the overwhelming majority of teachers are women.
When Jess-let’s-ignore-the-rape-gangs-for-as-long-as-possible-Phillips announces that boys will receive anti-misogyny lessons I can’t help but wonder how different things might be if, rather than anti-misogyny lessons, boys were provided with an education system designed and delivered by 50% men, not one designed by women for girls. The misogynistic term Karen seems a perfectly apt response to this sort of misandrist initiative.
She also notes:
It is not an original point, but it is worth repeating: the problem is not men, but insufficient men in the lives of boys. With 52% of children now born outside of marriage or civil partnership and with 45% of children not living with both biological parents, hundreds of thousands of boys are raised without fathers and, with scarce male teachers at school, limited male role models. Let’s not forget that by the end of primary school around 63% of girls meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, compared to 56% of boys; at GCSE, 71% of girls achieved grade 4 (C) or higher across subjects, compared to 64.2% of boys.
Gray is writing about the situation in the UK, but it can't be too different in the U.S.
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