Got a citation for that? I was of the impression that — especially at the primary level — schools were going out of their way to recruit more male teachers. Now retention may be a different matter. I could be wrong on both counts, though and would like to educate myself.
The gender performance gap in primary and secondary education is, however, well documented, with girls outperforming boys to a statistically significant degree in ELA across the board, but with variability from school district to school district in math. Interestingly, boys tend to outperform girls in math mostly in higher income school districts, suggesting that two things can be true at once: patriarchal attitudes around boys and math performance can and do persist, mostly in white bread communities, AND, the educational system as a whole may be failing some boys, mostly in lower income communities.
Where the discussion gets gross, of course, is where MRA types use these statistics as a justification for misogyny, or on the flip side where those sensitive to that go out of their way to wave stats like this away, sometimes even making a ‘boys will be boys’ argument that is historically problematic for completely different reasons and in the end amounts to blaming the kids for the problem.
Again, two things can be true at once - society is still male dominated and victimizes women in many facets of life. At the same time, the little boys struggling at school … mostly in poor neighborhoods … aren’t the root of the problem, and certainly aren’t the ‘dominant class’ referred to above. The conversation should not be a zero sum game where recognizing the challenges of one group means you are trivializing the challenges of another.
(Though in fairness many do try to make it thus, so the caution is understandable).
But anti-vax misinformation , which literally kills people, is perfectly fine.
This guy likes to portray himself as a rationalist and a free thinker, but he is nothing more than a scared man-child willing to pander to the dregs of society just for $8 and a dose of validation.
The sooner this festering boil of a social media site implodes, the better.
(Not to be one of those people who comments but doesn't offer help, if it were me I'd replace the entire base. One possible suggestion - find a different base second hand and adapt it to fit the chair. There is no karmic rule that says the base has to be the same brand as the chair, or even match it. It all depends on how the existing chair attaches. You might even take the modifications to an extreme).
I somehow feel as if you would be a hoot to have a beer with, but unfortunately this is the nice Lemmy instance with … shock … users over the age of 65. Even though part of me thinks you are just trolling the mods, we can’t leave up anything that even remotely reads as advocacy for murder.
You made a good point but we're trying to keep the discourse civil here and have to apply the rules fairly across the board. Feel free to re-post without the color commentary and we'll see how this plays out.
There are a lot of good responses to you here. @FatCrab raised mercenary use of U.S. forces - I am not familiar with that story but I believe Trump advisor Erik Prince did in fact offer mercenary support to the Wagner group.
Trump at one point mooted invading Venezuela. Members of the GOP (and reportedly Trump himself) are currently floating the idea of bombing Mexico. And let's not forget, Trump has famously threatened to use the military against American citizens.
So unless you want to leave the impression that you are just a right wing troll on a drive by, which would not be healthy for your long-term prospects here, perhaps you'd care to expound on the nuance of your argument?
The populist GOP is as intellectually bankrupt as it is morally bankrupt. Because it has no animating principle beyond fear and greed, its leaders will never stop with this bullshit. They will dip into endless oceans of manufactured outrage to fuel one attack after another on vulnerable out groups. Ad infinitum, for ever and ever.
We will have peace only after they are driven out of government utterly and completely, and their leadership is ripped root and branch from public life. The only real question is whether that is going to be possible while (hopefully) avoiding bloodshed.
No doubt. I was thinking about Southern ‘patriots’ deciding they can ignore the federal government when it suits them. But to your point, they had to send in marshals just so little kids could go to school, and that happened in living memory so … yeah.
Yeah, as much as I'd love for there to be public proof of extraterrestrial intelligence in my lifetime, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a spook version of the telephone game going on here. Some off the books program where they are bending a few budgetary rules that would get them in hot water with Congress, maybe. That program is compartmentalized from the rest of the intelligence community for obvious reasons (wild technology, rule bending). But eventually someone else inside the government figures out that "they have something". That "something" gets passed along, and passed along in internal discussions, getting slightly wilder with each retelling, until voila ... aliens.
This is the actual point. The GOP is bent out of shape at the moment, not only because the kids want some semblance of economic justice and vote accordingly, but also because higher education accreditors are low key threatening to withdraw accreditation from institutions (like the New College of Florida) in states where GOP governors are stripping faculty of academic freedom and imposing political points of view in the classroom.
So just to be clear what is going on: the "free market / free speech" GOP is suing to impose a state takeover of higher education standards so that they can impose political content in the classroom ("the happy, happy slaves learned valuable skills in Ole' Dixie, yay!"). That is straight up Orwellian.
This is reason #1001 as to why we need to get out and vote.
Y’all went off the rails right about here when this got personal. You can try again, or better yet just disengage since this seems like a fairly low stakes disagreement.
I can tell you from first-hand experience that (a) this is real, and (b) it is no different strategically than what the United States has done for years with some of its own foreign aid programs.
In fairness, there has been something of an evolution over the last 30 years in the way institutions like USAID approach development assistance. There is now at least some semblance of self-reflection over the need for co-creation with local stakeholders, an emerging focus on inclusivity, and attention to actual aid effectiveness (as opposed to the naked bribery described in this article). And of course, many elements in the GOP now want to cut back or kill those programs, but that is another discussion entirely.
And before someone calls me out, yet another discussion would be the U.S. track record of starting wars with suspicious links to oil reserves. At that point the mask is off and foreign aid only appears as an afterthought, if it does at all (bricks of cash flown to Iraq being a prime example).
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Got a citation for that? I was of the impression that — especially at the primary level — schools were going out of their way to recruit more male teachers. Now retention may be a different matter. I could be wrong on both counts, though and would like to educate myself.