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Did you read the article you are commenting on? He mentions that schools don't service men very well and that most dropouts are men

quantified 3y ago
> But overall, young men hit the labor market or college or whatever less well-prepared as a result of the education system. No facts about it, just some random assertion. Schools aren't going to change the way males relate to playing games, sports, and farting around in general compared with actually studying. What other part of the article did I miss? Oh, this: > the education system isn’t doing very well by lots of our boys and men now. We have a ten percentage point drop in the share of male teachers, incredible underinvestment in apprenticeships and vocational forms of learning, and all kinds of changes in school environments that mean that we’re not serving them very well. What changes in environments? Vocational means simply that boys don't do desks and paper well- is that true? Do male teachers make that much difference? The thrust here is that the economy has left men behind. Maybe that's true, which is more important.
- danjoredd 3y ago
  >Do male teachers make that much difference? You would be surprised. A boy having a male mentor is extremely helpful. Oftentimes an adult male can connect with boys in ways that an adult female might have trouble with. Teachers, for better or worse, are mentors. They are who kids spend the most time around during school semesters, and where they receive the most instruction, outside of parents. Now don't get me wrong. Boys can absolutely succeed without a male teacher in their lives, and it's great that we have lots of female teachers. But it is absolutely helpful for a boy to have a man to look up to in some fashion. This article makes a lot of good points about it, though its more about mentorship in general instead of male mentorship: https://www.edutopia.org/blog/boys-need-power-of-mentoring-brian-sztabnik https://www.edutopia.org/blog/boys-need-power-of-mentoring-b...
  - PaulHoule 3y ago
    It's also a factor that many boys are growing up without a present father whether it is a single parent family or a multiple parent family where the father is working all the time, not emotionally available, etc. If they are not getting that role model it is all the more important that they get another role model.
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago
  > Schools aren't going to change the way males relate to playing games, sports, and farting around in general compared with actually studying Sounds like you have already thought about this and came to a sexist conclusion.
- cultofmetatron 3y ago
  > Do male teachers make that much difference? lets flip this around. lets say we live in an alternative universe where primary school is primarily male dominated. just drawing from your own life experience, would you ask if not having female teachers affects female students?
- mortureb 3y ago
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  - cultofmetatron 3y ago
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    - mortureb 3y ago
      It just takes a while for the message to permeate.
  - orwin 3y ago
    No fault divorces are absolutely necessary. If the judges disproportionately favor the woman instead of the man, it's a issue with the justice system, not the law. My great grandmother, Marie-Madeleine, and her sister Mercedes were both married/promised to their older cousins (2nd degree, so quite close) to make sure the family business stayed in the family (no brothers, only 3 sisters). My great-grandmother probably poisoned her husband shortly after their 2 children, making him unable to carry loads, and that killed him in 39/40 while he was forced to go work in Germany, and Mercedes was known in the village to prostitute herself during the war and tell everyone how her husband was unsatisfying. I think their parents didn't dare to push the 3rd sister (I know her name starts with 'M' too but I'm unable to remember), because she was the hard-headed one. I'd rather be divorced than poisoned, tbh.
    - mortureb 3y ago
      You can be divorced with no financial support then which is really the crux of the issue.
dang 3y ago
"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

quantified 3y ago

> But overall, young men hit the labor market or college or whatever less well-prepared as a result of the education system. No facts about it, just some random assertion. Schools aren't going to change the way males relate to playing games, sports, and farting around in general compared with actually studying. What other part of the article did I miss? Oh, this: > the education system isn’t doing very well by lots of our boys and men now. We have a ten percentage point drop in the share of male teachers, incredible underinvestment in apprenticeships and vocational forms of learning, and all kinds of changes in school environments that mean that we’re not serving them very well. What changes in environments? Vocational means simply that boys don't do desks and paper well- is that true? Do male teachers make that much difference? The thrust here is that the economy has left men behind. Maybe that's true, which is more important.

danjoredd 3y ago
>Do male teachers make that much difference? You would be surprised. A boy having a male mentor is extremely helpful. Oftentimes an adult male can connect with boys in ways that an adult female might have trouble with. Teachers, for better or worse, are mentors. They are who kids spend the most time around during school semesters, and where they receive the most instruction, outside of parents. Now don't get me wrong. Boys can absolutely succeed without a male teacher in their lives, and it's great that we have lots of female teachers. But it is absolutely helpful for a boy to have a man to look up to in some fashion. This article makes a lot of good points about it, though its more about mentorship in general instead of male mentorship: https://www.edutopia.org/blog/boys-need-power-of-mentoring-brian-sztabnik https://www.edutopia.org/blog/boys-need-power-of-mentoring-b...
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  It's also a factor that many boys are growing up without a present father whether it is a single parent family or a multiple parent family where the father is working all the time, not emotionally available, etc. If they are not getting that role model it is all the more important that they get another role model.
ClumsyPilot 3y ago
> Schools aren't going to change the way males relate to playing games, sports, and farting around in general compared with actually studying Sounds like you have already thought about this and came to a sexist conclusion.
cultofmetatron 3y ago
> Do male teachers make that much difference? lets flip this around. lets say we live in an alternative universe where primary school is primarily male dominated. just drawing from your own life experience, would you ask if not having female teachers affects female students?
mortureb 3y ago
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- cultofmetatron 3y ago
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  - mortureb 3y ago
    It just takes a while for the message to permeate.
- orwin 3y ago
  No fault divorces are absolutely necessary. If the judges disproportionately favor the woman instead of the man, it's a issue with the justice system, not the law. My great grandmother, Marie-Madeleine, and her sister Mercedes were both married/promised to their older cousins (2nd degree, so quite close) to make sure the family business stayed in the family (no brothers, only 3 sisters). My great-grandmother probably poisoned her husband shortly after their 2 children, making him unable to carry loads, and that killed him in 39/40 while he was forced to go work in Germany, and Mercedes was known in the village to prostitute herself during the war and tell everyone how her husband was unsatisfying. I think their parents didn't dare to push the 3rd sister (I know her name starts with 'M' too but I'm unable to remember), because she was the hard-headed one. I'd rather be divorced than poisoned, tbh.
  - mortureb 3y ago
    You can be divorced with no financial support then which is really the crux of the issue.

dang 3y ago

"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html