thinking about the cycle of: women do better in school - more women become teachers - men are socialized not to listen to or pay attention to women - men do worse in school
and yet males continue being paid more money and being handed a majority of all positions with significant social power, and every previously male-dominated profession that is taken over by more competent women experiences a drop in status and pay.
You know what was the craziest thing I learned from being married to a teacher? Not that the kids are watching porn and sexually harassing teachers and other students, though that's definitely bad. It's the fact that children cannot read anymore. And it's not like, some of them. 90% of her FIFTH GRADERS cannot read. She writes shit on the board but they can't fucking read it. They don't teach PHONICS anymore, they do this bullshit whole-word reading, and the result is that kids can't sound things out. They literally don't know how to read. This is horrifying to me. They also have no critical thinking abilities and don't even try to do any tasks before deciding they don't know how and it's too hard, like on a level incomprehensible to me. Like she tells me these things and it makes me think like, there's no way the general public is aware of this, right? If you aren't a teacher or a parent you must not know about this. So I am telling you. Watch some teacher tik toks. Read the teachers subreddit. Be aware. Because I'm genuinely very scared of what is going to happen over the next few years. This is fr not good.
This article is from 2019 but it talks about the issue, and touches on the two teaching methodologies
my grandma who is a teacher told me the same thing, and that it gets worse every year
I didn't know about that, but I can't say I'm surprised. The following likely ties into it:
This Silicon Valley school shuns technology — yet most of the students are children of tech execs
"While inmates at maximum security prisons in the U.S. are guaranteed at least 2 hours of outdoor time a day, half of children worldwide spend less than an hour outside" X
A lot of societal changes are horribly messing up children's development.
a major pet peeve of mine is when people use the word 'vagina' to describe what is actually the vulva. it's a complex lil area with many different parts!!! learn their names!!!
I've met grown women who thought their urethra was in the vagina (or that urine just comes straight out of the vagina) because no one ever used the word vulva when talking about anatomy with them. Idk about other places but that's sex ed in the US for ya
