Imp is right here, at least for Western nations. Teachers, both male and female, generally give better grades to girls than boys in cases of equal quality work. Blind marking has been shown to improve the scores of boys and decrease the scores of girls. Teachers also give more praise to female students, girls have higher rates of literacy, enrolment in AP and gifted classes, and are more likely to graduate. Of course, they're then accepted into post-secondary college and university programs at higher rates than men.
Girls are easily pressured through shame and social elements, meaning the type of discipline teachers employ is far more effective on them. Which means they act up less, so they are able to do more work and don't get pettily focused on as much for being "troublemakers." Which usually ends up in the boy getting removed from classwork more, growing resentful and then the vicious cycle starts. And that's not even getting into boy's inherent higher energy (and the need to burn it off) and instinctual hierarchical attitudes (which means they need to fight it out with each other at times, instead of getting suspended for every little push).
Point of all that being, even the one's that aren't deliberately trying to push ideology or activism are still contributing to the problem. There are no "the good ones." Only the malicious and the ignorant.
Maybe, maybe not. But just with affirmative action and all the other shit, it's all but impossible (heh) to take these achievements at face value. Even if one is a real high-achiever you can't take it serious because nothing sets her apart from a fake one anymore.
I actually think this will destroy real high achievers in the long run because no matter how good she is, the system makes sure her borderline retarded fellows will look just as good her (just so they look better than all the boys)
Like for example look at Helen Keller and Anne Frank, neither of them wrote a single book. Keller's handler (also a woman) wrote that stuff for her, and when she left, Keller mysteriously stopped writing. And Frank's uncle wrote her diary with a ballpoint pen not invented until years after her death.
Imp is right here, at least for Western nations. Teachers, both male and female, generally give better grades to girls than boys in cases of equal quality work. Blind marking has been shown to improve the scores of boys and decrease the scores of girls. Teachers also give more praise to female students, girls have higher rates of literacy, enrolment in AP and gifted classes, and are more likely to graduate. Of course, they're then accepted into post-secondary college and university programs at higher rates than men.
Girls are easily pressured through shame and social elements, meaning the type of discipline teachers employ is far more effective on them. Which means they act up less, so they are able to do more work and don't get pettily focused on as much for being "troublemakers." Which usually ends up in the boy getting removed from classwork more, growing resentful and then the vicious cycle starts. And that's not even getting into boy's inherent higher energy (and the need to burn it off) and instinctual hierarchical attitudes (which means they need to fight it out with each other at times, instead of getting suspended for every little push).
Point of all that being, even the one's that aren't deliberately trying to push ideology or activism are still contributing to the problem. There are no "the good ones." Only the malicious and the ignorant.
And after creating that hostile of an enviroment for boys, one where girls thrive in, they STILL mark boys down and girls up.
Maybe, maybe not. But just with affirmative action and all the other shit, it's all but impossible (heh) to take these achievements at face value. Even if one is a real high-achiever you can't take it serious because nothing sets her apart from a fake one anymore.
I actually think this will destroy real high achievers in the long run because no matter how good she is, the system makes sure her borderline retarded fellows will look just as good her (just so they look better than all the boys)
This is the most true statement you've ever said.
Like for example look at Helen Keller and Anne Frank, neither of them wrote a single book. Keller's handler (also a woman) wrote that stuff for her, and when she left, Keller mysteriously stopped writing. And Frank's uncle wrote her diary with a ballpoint pen not invented until years after her death.