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February 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Boys make less effort – and are marked more strictly – when they have a female teacher
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Laura Clark
Last updated at 8:36 PM on 17th February 2012
Schools need more male teachers because boys make less effort in women’s classes, a new study claimed today.
The shortage of men in school staffrooms could be one reason for the under-achievement of boys, researchers found.
Female teachers tend to give boys lower marks than they deserve – and boys are less likely to work hard in their classes.
Chemistry lesson: Boys tend to work harder under male teachers, who mark them more leniently than female students
Men appear to be better at motivating boys but are vastly outnumbered in the nation’s schools, taking just a quarter of teaching jobs, and 15 per cent in primaries.
‘Boys often disengage in the educational process, and this is likely to be due in part to their perceptions of their teachers,’ said the study’s authors.
‘There is an under-representation of male teachers in both primary and secondary education in England.’
Girls also made more effort when they were graded by male teachers, according to research by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.
But teachers were found to be more lenient with students of their own sex.
Girls actually received higher grades from female teachers than male.
Male teachers, in turn, gave boys higher marks.
Rare breed: A quarter of primary schools do not have a single male teacher, according to the latest statistics
For the study, 1,200 pupils aged 12 and 13 in 29 schools across England were given £4 and asked to place bets on their performance in an exam.
One group of pupils was marked by their class teacher – some male and some female – and another by an anonymous external examiner.
‘The results of the experiment show that male pupils tended to lower their investment when a female teacher marked their exams,’ said the study.
‘Further analysis confirmed that female teachers in the experiment did tend to award lower marks to male pupils than external examiners.
‘So male pupils’ perceptions seem to be roughly in line with female teachers’ marking practices.’
Girls placed substantially bigger bets when they knew they were being marked by a male teacher instead of an anonymous examiner.
But male teachers did not mark them more leniently, and in fact tended to discriminate in favour of boys.
Campaigns staged over recent years to increase recruitment of male teachers have failed to change significantly the make-up of staffrooms.
A quarter of primary schools do not have a single male teacher, according to figures released last year. Staffrooms in 4,278 of the 16,971 primaries in England are solely populated by women.
And there are just 25,500 men teaching young children, compared with 139,500 women.
Conservative MP Philip Hollobone has raised the issue in the House of Commons.
‘This is especially a problem because there are more and more families where children are growing up without a father,’ he said.
‘The teachers in primary school are overwhelmingly women, and they do a great job.
‘But it would be even better if there were more male teachers to act as role models, particularly to young boys.’
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Gender might seem irrelevant if you are looking at it from a teacher’s perspective but for the child it can be important. I suspect that men are put off from working in the classroom because asserting dominant maleness would be considered wrong these days while the softer approach associated with the female teacher is OK.
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These boys need fathers at home and some respect for their mothers. As a young female Secondary school teacher, I meet constant abuse on a daily basis from particularly young males, who think that women are there purely to be shouted at, laughed at and ignored. Sort it out at home and then maybe they have a fighting chance to suceed at school.
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Boys probably fail in the classroom because it is not cool to be intelligent and pass exams – the ability to make compose unintelligible, rhyming lyrics to rap music is really cool and should be encouraged because even the thickest kids are good at this.
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Disgusting. Women should be ashamed of themselves.
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– the realist, The World, said “im sure women are happy about this. congrads ladies, this is what feminism has done. hope your proud.”———————–They are proud mate. Women have got all the teaching jobs, and the education system has been feminized so that females do better. Thats exactly what they want.
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Men don’t enter Primary School teaching for 3 reasons:
1. The pay isn’t good enough.
2. Men working with young children are unfortunately looked on with suspicion in today’s sexually obsessed society.
3. Teachers are criticised and stigmatized by the press, the government and the chattering classes.
It really isn’t surprising why only 15% of Primary School teachers are men…and that figure is likely to remain whilst current attitudes prevail.
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Single sex schools and teachers are the answer – boys need a more exciting type of teaching than do girls, and their teaching is best done by men.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, until men stop feeling like they are looked upon as potential paedophiles when they express an interest in being a nursery or primary school teacher then this situation will only get worse.
– Carlo, Edinburgh, 17/2/2012 16:23 ============= That’s ridiculous. All statistics show that men TEND not to get along well with children or like children. Men are most likely to walk out and become runaway dads, even when they’re ordered to pay chip support, a large percentage of them never do. Speaking of pedophiles, over 90% of them are men.
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I am a female teacher in a challenging high school and we have male and female teachers. Some of the best teachers in the school are male but some are female. Their gender is irrelevant. The key is how they approach the kids and plan their lessons
The issue here is that boys and girls are very different and often need to be taught differently. Girls, in general, work well in groups, on project work and by listening and discussing and tend to excel in coursework. Boys do better with active, hands on learning and perform best when tested in a formal exam.
Ofsted penalise teachers for not including group work and independent learning. This also penalises boys who struggle in this style.
The best teachers recognise the need for varied styles in every lesson so all students can learn in their own way.
There is something to be said about the attitude of boys. They tend to try to play up to get their peers’ respect. Girls don’t tend to do this and will support each others successes
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Or maybe these boys should be taught to respect whoever teaches them, regardless of gender? But no, let’s blame the female teachers. This is why we’re in this situation.
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