True, but many of them do have the motherly quality needed in elementary schoolteachers. This is frequently more important than having the rudimentary knowledge needed to teach spelling or arithmetic or to illustrate the life-cycle of a pepper plant.
I've never trusted men who teach elementary grades.
Kids in school are not "kiddos" who need a mommy. They are students, they need educators. If they "frequently" need the "motherly qualities" you describe, and aren't even aware that pepper plants exist, there is something seriously wrong.
Which we all know. The whole thing is borked, and it's in no small part of exactly what you're describing as a good thing. Jaysus.
Kids in school are not "kiddos" who need a mommy. They are students, they need educators.
"Students" of the ages common in K-5th grade are children. Teachers serve "in loco parentis." Kids spend more time with teachers than with family, especially if both parents work.
Milk-and-cookies, sing-alongs, and nap-time are not scholarly pursuits, and no special knowledge is needed to teach kids the three Rs in K-5. At these ages, theoretical expertise in child psychology is no substitute for instinctively motherly qualities.
Who would you rather have consoling a child who scrapes his knee on the playground or gets glue squirted in her pencil-box? A scholar or a matron?
Jesus christ, you're advocating nap time, sing alongs, and milk and cookies as appropriate 5th grade activities over science and math? Fucking god, in 3rd grade I remember learning about stratocumulus clouds and times tables.
This is not "child psychology." This is arrested development and never-ending infantilization. K-5 is exactly when kids, if not deprived, develop their wonder with the world. They're not meant to be pampered like indoor cats, they're meant to be inspired, and to have their natural inquisitiveness bolstered by adults showing them that they have the ability to answer their own questions.
Even your example of "consoling a child with who scrapes his knee" is complete insanity, when combined with your completely bonkers suspicion of "non-motherly" teachers of children. The lady teacher says "ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?!?" a hundred times while the child explodes into tears and has to be sent to a safe space to cool down from his PTSD. The male teacher says "Alright? Not the end of the world. Shake it off sport and get back to it," and the kid learns a basic lesson about trucking on through (the slightest) adversity.
Your view of primary school education is exactly why we're as fucked as we are. You're advocating treating 10-year-olds like they're 2-year-olds.
I'm sorry you're so indoctrinated you see men enjoying working with kids and think "pedophile". That feminist line of thinking is why it went from a more even split to almost entirely women K-8.
Indoctrinated, my ass. I am in the process of shedding my social conditioning.
I, like many other Americans, spent 6 years in elementary school, and all my teachers were women. This is the basis of my opinion.
And, contrary to your hot take, I believe women are better suited to teaching children than men for the reason I state, not because I assume men teaching elementary school are pedophiles.
Men are not as capable of nurturing children as women are. With few exceptions, men cannot be "motherly," and this quality is suited for teaching kids in grades K-5 or 6.
You were taught faggotry, and now go on to spread faggotry. Not only are you not "shedding (your) social conditioning," it's so complete that you wrap yourself in it like a cozy comfort blanket. Public school is not your mom, dude.
those who REALLY can't, are women
True, but many of them do have the motherly quality needed in elementary schoolteachers. This is frequently more important than having the rudimentary knowledge needed to teach spelling or arithmetic or to illustrate the life-cycle of a pepper plant.
I've never trusted men who teach elementary grades.
That’s modern brainwashing. You don’t need a “motherly” quality for schoolteachers.
OK Mr. Gradgrind.
Kids in school are not "kiddos" who need a mommy. They are students, they need educators. If they "frequently" need the "motherly qualities" you describe, and aren't even aware that pepper plants exist, there is something seriously wrong.
Which we all know. The whole thing is borked, and it's in no small part of exactly what you're describing as a good thing. Jaysus.
"Students" of the ages common in K-5th grade are children. Teachers serve "in loco parentis." Kids spend more time with teachers than with family, especially if both parents work.
Milk-and-cookies, sing-alongs, and nap-time are not scholarly pursuits, and no special knowledge is needed to teach kids the three Rs in K-5. At these ages, theoretical expertise in child psychology is no substitute for instinctively motherly qualities.
Who would you rather have consoling a child who scrapes his knee on the playground or gets glue squirted in her pencil-box? A scholar or a matron?
Jesus christ, you're advocating nap time, sing alongs, and milk and cookies as appropriate 5th grade activities over science and math? Fucking god, in 3rd grade I remember learning about stratocumulus clouds and times tables.
This is not "child psychology." This is arrested development and never-ending infantilization. K-5 is exactly when kids, if not deprived, develop their wonder with the world. They're not meant to be pampered like indoor cats, they're meant to be inspired, and to have their natural inquisitiveness bolstered by adults showing them that they have the ability to answer their own questions.
Even your example of "consoling a child with who scrapes his knee" is complete insanity, when combined with your completely bonkers suspicion of "non-motherly" teachers of children. The lady teacher says "ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?!?" a hundred times while the child explodes into tears and has to be sent to a safe space to cool down from his PTSD. The male teacher says "Alright? Not the end of the world. Shake it off sport and get back to it," and the kid learns a basic lesson about trucking on through (the slightest) adversity.
Your view of primary school education is exactly why we're as fucked as we are. You're advocating treating 10-year-olds like they're 2-year-olds.
I'm sorry you're so indoctrinated you see men enjoying working with kids and think "pedophile". That feminist line of thinking is why it went from a more even split to almost entirely women K-8.
Indoctrinated, my ass. I am in the process of shedding my social conditioning.
I, like many other Americans, spent 6 years in elementary school, and all my teachers were women. This is the basis of my opinion.
And, contrary to your hot take, I believe women are better suited to teaching children than men for the reason I state, not because I assume men teaching elementary school are pedophiles.
Men are not as capable of nurturing children as women are. With few exceptions, men cannot be "motherly," and this quality is suited for teaching kids in grades K-5 or 6.
You were taught faggotry, and now go on to spread faggotry. Not only are you not "shedding (your) social conditioning," it's so complete that you wrap yourself in it like a cozy comfort blanket. Public school is not your mom, dude.