Salt:“I have only noted a gradual shift, with good points, and, from my viewpoint, some potentially troublesome aspects. Nothing more. A questioning of where we may be heading, and perhaps a caution. I'm not blaming anyone. We are all caught in a moving feast.”

What?

“Has this given rise to binge drinking and antisocial behaviour, to juvenile pregnancy, to increasing numbers of street kids, dysfunctional families, drug addiction or of the long term unemployed?”

Nope, hasn’t. Why? Do you think it has?

Salt:”Vectors, vectors, but operating within an overriding system, or in spite of it. It is largely your world now, largely in your hands. If I can help I will, but how, and who would listen? I don't have the answers.”

So you will stay on earth a while longer?

Jewlery,
“Tell me which type of science and I’ll go think of something. Are we looking for an overall topic to study science within or a theme or a way to describe how certain things work by using analogies female students might find interesting?”

I have had a lot of training in chemistry.

So how should chemistry be presented to girls so they would find it interesting?

EG Law of Multiple Proportions, Law of Conservation of Mass etc.

Saltpetre
"Advancements in education offering broader opportunity to male and female alike are beneficial across the board."

Well below is from a review into education in QLD.

“The average interest of Australian 15-year-olds in learning science is well below the OECD average and among the lowest in the world. “

http://education.qld.gov.au/mastersreview/pdfs/final-report-masters.pdf

Remembering that 4 out of 5 teachers in primary school are female, and the most significant decline in student’s interest in science occurs during primary school, and doesn’t increase much during secondary school.

Teaching was once considered a woman’s job, and if women in this feminist country have brought their special talents to teaching, they have now done one of the worst jobs in the world.

vanna
That just is not true. Back in the day teachers used to be all male, in fact secretaries were male. Women were not considered competent and too soft to be teachers or anything much else for that matter despite being left with most of the child raising - surely one of the most important jobs.

In recent years more women take to teaching than men usually because the wages are not (until more recently) as attractive and generally women tend to take on nurturing roles. (Well that last bit is my interpretation)

Perhaps we should be asking why more men are not going into the teaching profession? Strangely though the proportion of male principals and dep. principals is high considering the % of male teachers (ie. on a per capita basis). This is partly because of the fact many women still take more time out for parenting particularly within the last 20 years.

I have found with my own children than female teachers dominate primary schools and pre-schools but in high school the split seemed about 50/50 but I don't know the official statistics

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11925#205216

Satpetre, your comments throughout this thread have been quite honest & non confrontational but "denial is not a river in Egypt". The other comments from other gentlemen like Vanna or James H, have also been devoid of any antipathy towards women, girls, ladies, mothers, etc. In fact i have never seen any comment by any member of the AFL,

Anti
FeMANazi
League

that could be misinterpreted into misogyny by anybody other than a Communist Spinster, like our PM, or any of the "Siatas in da hood" like Pelican, suzeonline, Jewely, etc, who infect this web site with their obvious hatred for & desire to dominate all males.

Your comments about the moral & ethical degeneration of our society, culture & families has a very simple, sad answer. Which can be seen here, in this historical documentary about "Political Correctness".

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236#

After investing 23 minutes in watching this video, every dot will, for you, be connected, every "WTF" moment will have an answer.

Many "reforms" over the last half century to education, family law, family welfare, etc, always were a "plan for failure", by "inter"national socialists working towards the NWO.

Some more evidence of Closet Communists pretending to care about women or anything that gave them an excuse to bash our society or culture.

http://www.savethemales.ca/000185.html

http://www.savethemales.ca/160303.html

http://www.themonthly.com.au/node/2298

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard

http://www.mailstar.net/xTrots.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabian_Society

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/the-covert-comrades-in-the-alp/story-e6frg6zo-1225887087909

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/radical-roots-seep-through-at-the-heart-of-greens-20100726-10sj0.html?skin=text-only

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5vajlNhSzWYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=mark+aarons+the+family+file&source=bl&ots=_JqnT4mkHv&sig=23tiin36Jjg84b7-Ttuxxp7L3gI&hl=en&ei=jKD0TOiQD8fzcfH_mMcE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false

To all those members, former members, male or female of the radical, extreme, far loony left factions of the RED/green, getup, GAYLP, Socialist Alliance, i ask, are your actions now, or over the last half century or so, social, economic or cultural treason? And should you be tried for it?

Gawd and it’s Friday.

Anyways, no way am I going to understand either the Law of Conservation of Mass or Law of Multiple Proportions unless you can teach me now you have my interest.

Making things interesting for girls is often about what is familiar to them; a few years ago I’d suggest that song from Moby ‘We’re all made from stars’. An interesting teacher who can explain the ratios not changing in a closed system without sending the class to sleep probably helps.

With girls explain about Dalton and who he was, give them some history around why they are about to learn what they are.

We are trying to work out how to make them interested enough in science that they chose further studies in it? Girls usually need more encouragement and they often want to please a teacher.

I think single sex classrooms, could benefit the learning differences between the genders since often what helps girls will bore the boys to death.

I’d also like to know why more men aren’t in the young schools, childcare and child services. Probably for all the same reasons girls learn in different ways.

Must go back to private industry not highering feminists. Also untrue. They even have womens clubs within the private firms - men are also welcome.

Good grief.