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.
