Reply #96: Thank you! [View All]

[knitter4democracy]

When I taught at a girls school right out of my teaching college, I was amazed at how different it was. The environment was far more nurturing, and the students were handled much differently.

Then I went to a co-ed school, and I watched my male students talk over the girls, ignore them, and even tell them to shut up right in front of me--and the girls let it all happen. I went postal, and I was then labeled the feminazi teacher. That's when a couple of the boys decided to try to get me fired.

Of my two AP sections, one had more girls in it, and the boys in it did their best to transfer out, since they didn't like being in the minority. The section with more boys in it was my worst class that year. They consistently didn't read the books, bragged about it, even, and turned in crap. When I graded it how I said I would, they had their lawyer parents come in to argue the grade or called up the principal and spread lies to get me fired.

Trust me, the boys are not the poor things people are trying to make them out to be. Some boys are at a disadvantage, that's true, but most are privileged more than is right and scream the second even a bit of that is taken away from them.