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By Ian Keese, published 23/4/2007The millions of dollars, spent on politically correct pseudo-issues, could have been spent on improving the education of students.
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I will say something positive about the male gender and education. Men built every school I am aware of, and they have funded most schools also, as men pay about 70% of personal income tax.
I will say something positive about boys. They grow up to be men.
But what I do know about education leads me to believe that males now have very little future in education. There are too many teachers like Liz, who don’t like men in the education system.
So that is why I am interested in Liz’s ideas on how she would design and also fund the education system to improve student performance, (although she hasn’t actually given much tangible information regards this as yet).
Ian K,
I think you will find that boys will not be able to adequately find their identity at a school, if there are very few male teachers at the school.
I have had experience in developing training programs for young men doing apprenticeships, and I think too many of them have rejected their schools. This will be a problem in the future, as many companies now expect their tradesmen to have associate diplomas, (and degrees if possible). Just having a certificate is no longer sufficient. Also to compete with other countries for trade, tradesmen will have to have more and more skills, and to get those skills, they will have to go back to school and to higher education.
Schools are becoming too anti-male, and the lower retention rates, and the disengagement, and the rejection of the education system by so many boys will become a real problem for this country