La sotto-performance “cronica” dei ragazzi a GCSE dovrebbe essere trattata come un problema importante
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/chronic-under-performance-of-boys-at-gcse-should-be-treated-as-major-issue-5Hjd9Pt_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
La sotto-performance “cronica” dei ragazzi a GCSE dovrebbe essere trattata come un problema importante
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/chronic-under-performance-of-boys-at-gcse-should-be-treated-as-major-issue-5Hjd9Pt_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
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Course work was got rid of because it favoured girls.
The government will probably get rid of GCSEs to solve this.
Some male commentators and politicians have been demanding this for the last few years.
Then they will suddenly complain that boys are underperforming at 18 because they aren’t doing A levels.
Didn’t boys just outperform girls at A Level? Weird contrast.
Should; but won’t, because somehow it’s progressive for boys born today to inherit the sins of men born a century ago.
I work as a private tutor (maths and sciences) – it is very common for boys to do zero revision until the spring before the final exam, and have 150% confidence in their ability to “smash it”. They will often be screaming on their console until mum threatens to take it away or bribes them with extra game time, then come into the lesson beaming as if nothing has happened.
Meanwhile, the girls are knuckling down, revising to a high degree, giving model answers to questions, and still saying “I don’t know, I’m worried I will fail”.
How do you make the horse drink? GCSE results are out next week btw.
I was staggered to see the difference between the teacher assessed grades for boys and girls during COVID compared to the years previous and since. It’s great that girls are thriving at school after being treated as an afterthought in previous centuries but it seems as though it’s now been overcorrected at the expense of boys. Unfortunately, I don’t know what the answer is, but I do wonder if we need to incentivise the profession for males, as there seems to be a lack of male teachers. To be honest, teachers need much better pay in general. I don’t understand the logic in paying them like shit and expecting anything but shit results.
Boys and girls tend to learn differently, and the general systems in place tend to work better for girls’ educative needs and styles versus boys’. There’s also been a good effort to encourage and inspire girls in particular, which should continue- but nothing really for boys. Add to that surrounding issues, and you’ve got a system that doesn’t work for most boys as well as it should
They’ve been saying this for years but nobody has put forth a reason for why boys are underperforming. Plenty of reasons we haven’t fixed it, but none for why it exists in the first place.
Gcses are specifically designed for girls, with a heavy focus on extensive essay writing over knowledge.
Paradoxically it gets a lot easier for boys at uni level where you can pass by learning things.
Naaah let’s teach them about toxic masculinity, infer men are threats, and ignore the lack of male role models in education some more.
A lack of male teachers doesn’t help – studies have shown that boys do better when taught by men, yet men are driven out of the teaching profession by the high risk of false allegations being made against them.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/boys-do-better-when-they-are-taught-by-men-study-finds-946109.html
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/teachers-most-vulnerable-to-false-accusations-according-to-new-research