tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post8749656164900551550..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: A Different, Uncared-about Achievement GapDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-86604325913697963712010-05-12T19:54:42.364-07:002010-05-12T19:54:42.364-07:00At the height of the feminist movement, women'...At the height of the feminist movement, women's groups pushed for group learning and other techniques that benefited female students in general over male students. Males and females are wired differently and respond to different learning styles. If I make my disruptive boys compete for a bottle of soda in cleaning up paint, my room is spotless. Girls would never fall for that but would insist that everyone share the work equally. There have been countless studies on how girls do better in single sex classes and some schools have experimented with this. But nobody really seems to care that boys are more likely to be considered for special education classes, may have more issues with reading, may have less patience with long classes and need competition in order to achieve. We've put so much into girls programs that boys have been left behind. As a mom of a daughter and two sons, I can tell you that my sons struggled much more with classes and the expectations based on detail oriented nit picky details that have little to do with learning material and everything to do with pandering to the way girls learn.Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.com