Another one for the thinkers - a guest post
Wally Keeler
According to their website the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board (KPRDSB) values equity, among other things. They have an advisory Equity and Diversity Committee mandated to "/address equity, diversity and inclusiveness in human resources services, educational services and business services and to provide leadership and direction in the areas of equity, diversity and inclusiveness/."
KPRDSB is an Equal Opportunity Employer: "/identifying and removing barriers in employment policies and practices to encourage full productivity in all aspects of employment; preventing and prohibiting discrimination and harassment; valuing the importance of diversity, fairness and equitable employment practices."/
/ /In KPRDSB secondary schools, 53 percent of teachers are female (452 females, 401 males). In elementary schools, females make up 82 percent (1006 females, 225 males). Additionally, females overwhelmingly run day care centres. In recent decades, the numbers of single mother families have increased – aka fatherless families.
For children growing up in our society, we have moved into a clearly matriarchal "nurturing" system. This move away from the old boy patriarchal system has been a boon for females.
(1) Women account for more than 80 per cent of the students at Ontario Veterinary College and make up more than half of the province's practising vets.
(2) The Globe & Mail (Dec 7/09) reported that there are now three female undergraduates for every two male students on all Canadian campuses. Women reached parity at the undergraduate level in 1987, at the Masters level in 1997, and now account for about 46 per cent of PhD candidates.
(3) The Globe & Mail (Oct 21/09) reported that overall university participation rates reveal that 58 per cent of undergrads are female. These trends will continue.
It is a wonderful success story for females. The initial drum song was EQUALITY, and insofar as the formative years are concerned, females have surpassed equality and gone into dominance, while still singing the siren song of EQUALITY.
The Globe & Mail reported that, "/programs that bring female role models in science to meet with elementary pupils are legion. There is nothing nearly as systematic for boys."/ Well, of course, it stands to reason, that the overwhelming dominance of women in the nurturing industry implicitly favour their own gender, not boys.
On a nationwide assessment of teenagers, 26 per cent of girls scored at the top level in reading, compared with just 19 per cent of boys. At the bottom level, 13 per cent are boys, compared with only 9 per cent of girls. Boys score 21 percentage points below girls on the Grade 6 writing exam. (78 per cent of girls reach the provincial standard, compared with 57 per cent of boys).
This is the result of the feminization of the curricula and text books. The desanitization of textbooks in all subjects to diminish the lop-sidedness towards males, has now become a lop-sidedness towards females. The pendulum has swing too far away from equality.
Of the 212,000 drop-outs in Canada in 2004-2005, 135,000 were males. The drop-out rate of young males was 12.2 per cent in 2004/5, compared with 7.2 per cent for young females. The share of male drop-outs has increased in recent years. In 1990/91, a sizable majority of drop-outs were males (58.3 per cent); by 2004/5, it had increased to 63.7 per cent. In Quebec, in 2004/5 seven in ten drop-outs were young men.
This growing gender imbalance has engendered no studies, no research, no interest whatsoever. Don’t expect any remedies too soon. Feminists and feminist-infected females show more concern about the lack of men sharing the burden of dusting, dishes, laundry, etc. than the setting up of educational failure for their sons. What a pity. How pathetic. That’s how the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board interprets EQUITY.
According to their website the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board (KPRDSB) values equity, among other things. They have an advisory Equity and Diversity Committee mandated to "/address equity, diversity and inclusiveness in human resources services, educational services and business services and to provide leadership and direction in the areas of equity, diversity and inclusiveness/."
KPRDSB is an Equal Opportunity Employer: "/identifying and removing barriers in employment policies and practices to encourage full productivity in all aspects of employment; preventing and prohibiting discrimination and harassment; valuing the importance of diversity, fairness and equitable employment practices."/
/ /In KPRDSB secondary schools, 53 percent of teachers are female (452 females, 401 males). In elementary schools, females make up 82 percent (1006 females, 225 males). Additionally, females overwhelmingly run day care centres. In recent decades, the numbers of single mother families have increased – aka fatherless families.
For children growing up in our society, we have moved into a clearly matriarchal "nurturing" system. This move away from the old boy patriarchal system has been a boon for females.
(1) Women account for more than 80 per cent of the students at Ontario Veterinary College and make up more than half of the province's practising vets.
(2) The Globe & Mail (Dec 7/09) reported that there are now three female undergraduates for every two male students on all Canadian campuses. Women reached parity at the undergraduate level in 1987, at the Masters level in 1997, and now account for about 46 per cent of PhD candidates.
(3) The Globe & Mail (Oct 21/09) reported that overall university participation rates reveal that 58 per cent of undergrads are female. These trends will continue.
It is a wonderful success story for females. The initial drum song was EQUALITY, and insofar as the formative years are concerned, females have surpassed equality and gone into dominance, while still singing the siren song of EQUALITY.
The Globe & Mail reported that, "/programs that bring female role models in science to meet with elementary pupils are legion. There is nothing nearly as systematic for boys."/ Well, of course, it stands to reason, that the overwhelming dominance of women in the nurturing industry implicitly favour their own gender, not boys.
On a nationwide assessment of teenagers, 26 per cent of girls scored at the top level in reading, compared with just 19 per cent of boys. At the bottom level, 13 per cent are boys, compared with only 9 per cent of girls. Boys score 21 percentage points below girls on the Grade 6 writing exam. (78 per cent of girls reach the provincial standard, compared with 57 per cent of boys).
This is the result of the feminization of the curricula and text books. The desanitization of textbooks in all subjects to diminish the lop-sidedness towards males, has now become a lop-sidedness towards females. The pendulum has swing too far away from equality.
Of the 212,000 drop-outs in Canada in 2004-2005, 135,000 were males. The drop-out rate of young males was 12.2 per cent in 2004/5, compared with 7.2 per cent for young females. The share of male drop-outs has increased in recent years. In 1990/91, a sizable majority of drop-outs were males (58.3 per cent); by 2004/5, it had increased to 63.7 per cent. In Quebec, in 2004/5 seven in ten drop-outs were young men.
This growing gender imbalance has engendered no studies, no research, no interest whatsoever. Don’t expect any remedies too soon. Feminists and feminist-infected females show more concern about the lack of men sharing the burden of dusting, dishes, laundry, etc. than the setting up of educational failure for their sons. What a pity. How pathetic. That’s how the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board interprets EQUITY.
11 comments:
That's it then. Wally has proven once and for all that a little learning is a very dangerous thing, at least for men.
This is not a subject I presume to know ANYTHING about, but I have a suspicion that the "equity" issue is more about 'equal opportunity' than it is about 'equal results'. Equality in results would necessitate equal levels of competence or equal abilities, but that is unlikely to be the case, no matter what the focus may be. Bemoaning the 'results' aspect does not suggest a change in the 'equal opportunity' aspect, just a refocusing of resources to improve the levels of competence and ability, and that could have a beneficial impact on the results issue. To me, it seems that the shift you have described has highlighted the differences in competence and ability between females and males, and that may well be something that needs to be studied in greater depth to determine the appropriate response to such significant differences.
Girls talk earlier than boys, are socialized and toilet trained earlier and easier than boys. In school they do better, right up to puberty, then fall behind the boys as they realize their physical appearance and attractiveness count far more in the world than their academic success.
I don't believe those facts have changed much over the years.
Besides, as long as we still earn substantially less money in spite of all our supposed academic achievements, you boys have nothing to worry about, you are still in charge.
A worthwhile topic to discuss, thank you Wally.
"In school they (girls) do better, right up to puberty, then fall behind the boys as they realize their physical appearance and attractiveness count far more in the world than their academic success."
This no longer the truth, because stats reveal that females are succeeding in school after puberty in unprecedented numbers. More females graduate from secondary school than males. Females outnumber males in virtually every post-secondary educational institution save engineering and math, and in those areas, females are near parity and if trends continue, those will also leave males in the dust in the very near future.
Females not only have their sexual attractiveness to beguile, mesmerize, and bedazzle single-minded males who, as poet James Dewar accurately portrayed, are mere "boners with bodies attached" but girls can supplement that sexual advantage with academic achievement. The overwhelming dominance of The Neo-Matriarchy throughout the formative years of males will have a profound effect in relations in the very near future; it will not be pretty, for either sex. That will be an enormous tragedy.
The old saw that males earn more, is a worn out feminist bone that does not stand up to scrutiny when several factors, excluded by parsing feminists, are factored in. One of the more astute writings concerning this feminist myth can be found HERE.
"'equity' issue is more about 'equal opportunity' than it is about 'equal results'."
When our local elementary schools have a ratio of 82% female employment, where is the equal opportunity for men? What are the systemic barriers that prevent men from being elementary teachers?
The entire educational system from day care to adulthood has become overwhelmingly dominated by females. This has been a boon for females; not so for males.
For decades it has been proselytized that women are 'nurturers' and now that they have overwhelming power over the educational development of children from the beginning through to adulthood, the so-called nurturing has been a failure for more and more males.
"a little learning is a very dangerous thing, at least for men."
AnonyMouse should well be ashamed to own their sexist comment. This is the company that AnonyMouse keeps:
"As far as I'm concerned, men are the product of a damaged gene"
- Germain Greer.
"Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometime gain from the experience"
- Catherine Comins, Vassar College Assistant Dean of Student Life, Time magazine, June 3, 1991, p. 52.
"I think all men are pigs"
- Mass. Governor Paul Cellucci, WAAF radio, Mar. 17, 1998.
"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
- Robin Morgan (editor, MS magazine).
"The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist"
- Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey, p. 86.
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."
- Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
These are just a few comments that indicate that feminism is sexism.
Wally,alas,you missed the humourous intent of my first post. The feminists you quote sound like a dreary lot, and I think most people, men and women alike, shun that kind of extremism. Don't you ?
This is a letter-to-the-editor that Northumberland Today declined to publish:
As sure as I can count on Queen Elizabeth’s annual season’s greetings, I can also count on Executive Director of Northumberland Services for Women, Linda Janzen’s annual seasonal excoriation of males.
In a Dec. 18/07 letter to the Cobourg Daily Star she called for all of us to be concerned about all violence regardless of whether the perp or victim is male or female. Sure. In her recent December 24/09 missive to Northumberland Today, male violence is once again portrayed exclusively.
She trots out carefully parsed statistics, then asserts, “These figures are for known domestic homicides only. You can imagine the infinitely higher number of women who live in fear and are assaulted by the men who claim to love them.”
Oh yes, the “infinitely higher number.” What kind of slanderous bureaucrap is THAT? Let your imagination soar; reality is finite but the imagination is infinite.
There were 611 homicides in Canada. 76 percent of the victims were men. Statscan recently asserted that the rate of spousal murders had been gradually dropping the past 30 years. Good news for women but not for men who are three times more likely to be a victim of lethal violence. Who cares for them?
2005 saw 886 females commit suicide, while 2857 males offed themselves. Males are four times more likely to destroy themselves than women. In 2006, females were stricken with 75,061 incidences of cancer which included 20,337 cases of breast cancer. In the same year, males were stricken with 82,133 incidences of cancer, including 22,480 cases of prostate cancer. The fact that more men are afflicted with this cruelty means nothing to the feminist steamroller as they increasingly focus on Breast Cancer Month. Is there a Prostate Month? Week? Day?
This callous and dismissive attitude towards men is further reflected in the chronic and tiresome statistic indicating that women continue to outlive men; 82.7 for women, 78 for men.
In her Dec 18, 2007 letter, Ms Janzen,asserted that “the root cause” of male victimization of women was a “structural issue of power and control in society.” She further added that she raised “issues as a proponent for an equal society, where all people are treated with dignity and respect. I have to believe that such a society is what we all want … for our children.”
I was informed by the Kawartha and Pine Ridge District School Board that 82 percent of elementary school teachers are female and 53 percent of secondary teachers are female. Let us add that day care centres are overwhelmingly controlled and dominated by females. The vast majority of child custody cases favour females, and single (unpartnered) parents are overwhelmingly female.
What is the result of this massive development of a new structural issue of power and control over the children of both genders throughout their formative years?: an unprecedented drop-out rate of males from school. Boys have increasingly being disenfranchised by the neo-matriarchy that dominates and cares less about males.
So let me rewrite Ms Janzen’s words: imagine the infinitely higher number of males who live in fear and are assaulted by life from all directions and the indifference of the feminist-infected women who claim to love them.
Feminist ideology is pathologically lethal.
If we could all set aside our prejudices and pre-conceived stereotypes and just see each other as humans, we'd all be better off.
Nobody wants to see boys or girls fail, just like nobody wants to see people die of starvation and lack of opportunity.
But as long as we can't see past a person's sex, skin colour, religion, etc. and can't stop labelling everyone and making uninformed assumptions based on those factors, we will never grow up enough to just accept each other for who we are and act accordingly.
We have to go beyond our selfish emotions to think rationally and critically so we can make reasonable decisions that benefit all of us.
A tall order for mere humans.
"uninformed assumptions" consist of bumpersticker wisdom such as 'women earn less than men'; girls fall behind when puberty sets in, women are 'nurturers' et al.
If all those platitudes were operational, there wouldn't be the only racist slander remaining in the progressive's zeitgeist; white-skinned males, the yahoos that attend hockey games or other venues not regularly inhabited by so-called progressives.
"think rationally and critically so we can make reasonable decisions that benefit all of us."
Right on Deb, and that is exactly what I have done in my posting and comments on this subject. It is pathetic that I am the only one to raise these issues about the many injustices against males.
That is why I provided sources and stats to make the case, instead of platitudes that are rolled out by dime-a-dozen politicians regardless of stripe.
Btw, what policies have the NDP enunciated to address this imbalance against males in the educational system? Anyone?
Unfortunately, platitudes will not educate our sons, but political action to correct the systemic sexism of feminism in our schools will.
Wally, you're making assumptions again. Why would I know what NDP policies are? I haven't been a member since 1992.
You were so quick to jump all over me I guess you didn't notice my point that everyone needs to be shown respect and provided with opportunities, boys included. If there are problems in education for boys, they need to be fixed.
I just don't see why having female teachers has runied boys, if that is what you are claiming. Nobody prevents men from becoming teachers too you know. They have that choice. I'd like to know why the few that are teaching always seem to end up as principals, the top paying job?
We are ALL victims of sexism, boxed in by what the dominant culture tells us we should do and think and behave. We ALL need to be liberated from that box, male and female alike.
Now go and enjoy New Year's Eve. I suspect you will enjoy yourself tremendously.
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