The leader of the UK’s largest education union has called for an independent inquiry into the rise of sexism and misogyny among boys and young men, saying it should not be left to parents and schools to police.
Can’t have parents bringing up children. They might allow them to indulge in wrongthink. State podding hutches for all!
Just to remind, you can get into a teacher training college on 2 Es at A Level.
you can get into a teacher training college on 2 Es at A Level.
Teacher training colleges still exist? I thought they’d all promoted themselves to “universities” these days.
Having a male leader of a teaching union does seem awfully unrepresentative of the membership.
I wonder if he has considered whether the relative paucity of male teachers nowadays in any way contributes to the perceived rise in sexism and misogyny amongst pupils.
The enormous increase in non-white demographic youngsters brought up without the traditional British respect for women must surely be another factor.
But no. His depressingly predictable solution is to regulate big tech (that and more “resources”).
What male wants to go into teaching nowadays? Instantly labelled paedophile. And this goes hand in hand with the de-professionisation of teaching, it’s now a job you do when you’ve failed to do anything else. Make entrance requirements 5xA* and immediately see the teaching quality go up. And recruit straight from post-action RAF, just like my grandad, that’ll whallop some discipline into them.
I’d like an independent inquiry into the domination of the teaching profession by deeply stupid women, thus stagnating the prospects of Britain’s boys.
Rank-and-file teachers are fine. The union bloke is trying to make a name for himself with this nonsense.
Also the gender divide isn’t that big, and it narrows with age:
– nursery / kindy: 100% female
– primary school: 86% female
– secondary school: 65% female
This data is headcount, not FTE. Women tend to work part-time because they aren’t the primary breadwinner / because they have their own kiddies at home, so in practice your odds of having a male teacher in any given secondary class approach 50:50.
Obviously individual schools will vary, but “there are no male teachers any more” is just not true.
So this imported Marxist from the NEU (no, me either – apparently a merger between the nutters of the NUT and the ATL), thinks the biggest problem his union members face today is…young boys with porn on their phones.
Phuqer hasn’t got a clue, has he?
At a guess, I’d say the lack of hormonal diversity amongst the teaching staff is probably a factor in that, but god forbid that we might be seen to criticise “the wimmxn” of the teaching profession.
Perhaps, their behaviour is simply a response to the gynocratic organisation that consumes them and that they have to deal with on a day-to-day basis? The game of “wind up the teacher” isn’t exactly a new one.
Maybe a better solution is sex segregation, teach boys in boys only schools with male teachers and teach girls in girl only schools with female teachers? Seemed to work for the century or so before the war.
“ The leader of the UK’s largest education union has called for an independent inquiry into the rise of sexism and misogyny among boys and young men,”
To the extent that it can even be measured objectively I don’t believe it. Justing look at the adverts that were around and thinking about we behaved when we were young, if that was going on now smelling salts companies would be a growth investment.
’…urged ministers to “take on big tech” to ensure that young people cannot access damaging material.’
Because the government has such a great track record with IT?
Mrs Grist was a teacher. At the time she retired teaching was flooded with “teaching assistants” who were called teachers by the schools to disguise the fact that these well meaning, if dim, mums were not actually trained teachers. Mind you, they only failed miserably at convincing the 11 year olds that they only had a couple of years left to live before they all fried/boiled/caught fire…
tl;dr: ‘ far-left activist calls for more state control over people’s opinions’.
I dunno, if the teachers / TA’s of today are constantly banging on about Warble Gloaming and how we’re all going to be boiled along with flipper in the dregs of the last ice floe then a reasonable response to such immiseration would be complete and total hedonism.
Makes sense to me. If the “Comet of Doom” is bearing down on you then might as well phuq, drink and drug yourself to a stupor and party like it’s 65 million years ago.
What they think of as toxic masculinity is really essential masculinity. Women can’t see it on an intellectual level even if their instincts still work as they always did. Anyhow, you can’t train it out of boys. You can’t influence boys by telling them they are not wanted, are inferior to females by default. Boys taught in that way will disengage. They won’t go down that path.
The generation of tweed-jacketed lefties which taught in the sixties and seventies were taught commonwealth and empire in the fifties. It didn’t take. If their stuff isn’t taking now it should be no surprise. Maybe there’s a limit to indoctrination in the classroom.
you can get into a teacher training college on 2 Es at A Level
Fvck me, so Jeremy Corbyn was sufficiently qualified (just) to train as a teacher?
“were taught commonwealth and empire in the fifties.” I went to school in the fifties (and sixties). I don’t remember being taught “commonwealth and empire”. I was in my own seventies before I learned there had been an Empire Day/Commonwealth Day.
There again I was in my seventies before I learned what The Cenotaph was, courtesy of some young hoodlum who vandalised it.
Bloke, were you educated in Pictland? My own experience of schools in army areas and English grammar schools I thought was typical, but maybe it wasn’t.