Education

Do Teachers Have Boy Problems?

By Anthony Rebora — July 29, 2009 1 min read
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Ferriter jumps into the gender-gap debate, saying that schools by their nature might well be rigged against boys. For many teachers, he charges, characteristically energetic and impulsive middle school boys are “walking disruptions to be dismissed and disciplined.”

And it only gets worse in high school:

They spend more and more time sitting in one place listening quietly to teachers who are lecturing for hours on end, sending the subtle message that knowledge is held by those who are in charge. They either conform—pushing their energy and creativity to the side and beginning to believe that there is something ‘wrong’ with them—or they push back and end up labeled as troublemakers.

A version of this news article first appeared in the Blogboard blog.