[quote=Blogstar]So I stumbled across a book that deals with a lot of comments made in the gender politics part of this thread. “The War Against Boys”, seems like maybe you have read it , Scaredy? The book supports a lot of things you have been saying.
I had no idea that a certain branch of feminists were taking sex politics to grade schools with department of education funding. I thought this was only happening in colleges. I don’t think my kids have been exposed to any particularly wacky teachers in grade schools. Not against some organic gender bending myself , but to try to force boys to be more feminine is an atrocity against them.
Just in case , I am going to ask my boys if they have , or have had any teachers that seemed to be disgusted with maleness, or femaleness.[/quote]
I have heard a lot of parents who say that this or that elementary teacher didn’t like boys. And I already think the lower grades are skewed in favor of girls – lots of sitting still and doing fine motor tasks (cutting and gluing and drawing) and talking sbout stuff. My son was once praised because he was learning to sit down more. I told the teacher that my concerns about him did not have to do with whether he could sit down. Elementary school emphasizes lots of egalitarian, everyone’s a winner stuff. It was very boring for my son, who used to compete at everything (and is still somewhat happy that we have a bigger Christmas tree than his friends.)
