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Also there's a recognised gender bias in how teachers grade assignments. Boys messier handwriting results in lower scores than girls tidier handwriting, even co

Also there's a recognised gender bias in how teachers grade assignments. Boys messier handwriting results in lower scores than girls tidier handwriting, even controlling for content and legibility. source: https://www.tes.com/news/could-handwriting-bias-write-exam-chances https://www.tes.com/news/could-handwriting-bias-write-exam-c... Women in general tend to be more compliant, which becomes an issue later in life when standing up for oneself in the workplace (e.g. getting promotions and pay raises), but it's an advantage in the classroom. Men need to be shown the value of something before they will learn it. This can be a problem as a lot of school lessons have no immediate practical value.

AuryGlenz 6y ago
There was a high school English teacher in our school that was known for sexism. I was in the “honors” version of her class along with a few other guys that apparently weren’t warned. We were all A students normally, but we all regularly got Cs in her class and it tanked my GPA. My favorite example is that we had to make a diorama based on the Iliad, and I did Polyphemus’ cave. I was marked down because it wasn’t colorful enough. There were girls in the class that clearly weren’t “honors” material that got As. Another teacher’s daughter actually went and complained to the principal on behalf of the boys to no effect. She finally retired this past year. I do senior photography and she’s been brought up by a lot of former students and they all talked about her sexism.
- some_random 6y ago
  I never ran into anything quite that extreme, but I remember having a number of teachers that openly disliked boys. Mostly unrelated, but it's hard to convince boys in high school that women are discriminated against when their lived experience is authority figures telling them that girls are better than boys

AuryGlenz 6y ago

There was a high school English teacher in our school that was known for sexism. I was in the “honors” version of her class along with a few other guys that apparently weren’t warned. We were all A students normally, but we all regularly got Cs in her class and it tanked my GPA. My favorite example is that we had to make a diorama based on the Iliad, and I did Polyphemus’ cave. I was marked down because it wasn’t colorful enough. There were girls in the class that clearly weren’t “honors” material that got As. Another teacher’s daughter actually went and complained to the principal on behalf of the boys to no effect. She finally retired this past year. I do senior photography and she’s been brought up by a lot of former students and they all talked about her sexism.

some_random 6y ago
I never ran into anything quite that extreme, but I remember having a number of teachers that openly disliked boys. Mostly unrelated, but it's hard to convince boys in high school that women are discriminated against when their lived experience is authority figures telling them that girls are better than boys