Sunday, September 05, 2010
The school for women, by Richard Martineau
Richard Martineau
01/09/2010 4:38
The Quebec school is it inappropriate to the needs of boys? Is it too feminine? That is the question posed Aegis Royer Lessons elephant: the success of boys in school, an essay clarifying who has just come out in press.
For the specialist in special education, the answer is a resounding Yes. Our education system, he says, is singularly lacking in testosterone.
Effect Hygrade
The boys need positive role models to emulate, both at home and at school. However, as pointed out by Aegis Royer, 2006-2007 to 2008-2009, the percentage of male teachers in Quebec schools (preschool, primary and secondary) increased overall by 29.4% to 22.5%.
And judging from the number of male student in science education to become teachers, the trend will grow.
How to explain this phenomenon?
Probably the effect Hygrade. The school is feminized, because the men fled, the men flee, because the school is feminized.
In short, the fewer male teachers, there will be fewer male teachers.
School mat
What is a school "female"? It is a school where boys can not tug at the playground, where it is forbidden to climb the hills of snow, where the slightest chamaillage is perceived as a sign of violence and aggression, where competition is being alienated, which are distributed as Ritalin Smarties and where adventure books, magazines, sports and heroic epics are missing libraries.
A school where you must remain seated quietly, both buttocks stuck on the chair, even if you have the hormones in the ceiling.
A school where young Sikhs can proudly wear their kirpan while the boys who show the penknife that their grandfather bought them are sent to a psychologist illico.
Where are the guys?
Aegis Royer right to say that Quebec schools is ill-suited to the needs of boys.
But before pointing the finger at the education system and make it (again) the State responsible for our problems, we should perhaps look in the mirror and ask ourselves what kind of models we are for our children .
For example, how many boys see their fathers read? (And when I say read, I mean something other than the TV Guide.)
My friend Benoit Dutrizac, who has written some thrillers bloody, kept repeating to me when we worked together: "Richard, the guys do not read! I come from the book fair, and there were only women. If it was girls who buy books, go to the theater and attending museums, culture fall ... "
A little effort
That said, the world of work (where competition is fierce and inflexible hours) is not particularly suited to the "values" that we associate - rightly or wrongly - to women, and they have still managed to it an enviable.
They have not spent their time complaining: they are rolled up the sleeves and dark.
That sounds good "fit" school for boys.
But it would also draw the guys girls, and they learn the culture of effort and perseverance.
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