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YES! :clap1:

God knows what Niamh was thinking of. :suspect:

The lack of male teachers is actually an issue - males and females think (and especially, learn) quite differently. There are literal biological differences in how the male and female brain processes information. For that reason, unavoidably, females are better able to learn from a female teacher, who will of course be teacher ing from the perspective that she best understands. There actually has been, in recent years, a gradual skewing of educational materials that tend to cater better for girls. I don't think it's deliberate, though. I don't think there's an agenda. It's more a side effect of how the education system has evolved.

Girls hit their stride younger in general, boys excel more towards the pre/early teen years. Unfortunately by that point, many of them who fell behind in early school years have already been written off as incapable.

It IS true that once you get into the late teen years, there are a huge number of young men whose academic results just don't seem to match with their obvious conversational intelligence level. Again, while it does happen, you see it less with girls; bright girls tend to have done well academically.

There obviously are other reasons too like different distraction, peer pressure, and things like that BUT yeah... On this occasion I don't disagree with The Truth. I just don't think it's a gender-agenda issue... More that the system is entirely based around getting the most out of the "average student". It just so happens that the "average student" is of middling intelligence, and female.

I don't think it's that simple but I can see where the link can be made based on what I was saying above.

Underachievement / failure to reach perceived potential can be a major suicide trigger.

But how does not attending uni equate to underachieving.

There are many things in life that could make someone an underachiever that have nothing to do with uni.

Uni isn't the be-all and end-all of life.

Good read TS. I wonder why there are so little male primary school teachers though? I don't like to be generalizing too much based on gender but I always assumed that it was because females are more likely to want to work with younger kids than men

You don't get as many boys going to Uni as girls because the trade industry is generally male dominated so it's a better option for a lot of boys that aren't academically minded. If you're a girl that doesn't want to go to Uni then there's not a lot of options when it comes to careers, the only trades I can think of that women are prevalent in are Health and Beauty and Hairdressing which isn't exactly enticing for a lot of girls.

I think the lack of male teachers in Primary Schools is down to the issue that a lot of male teachers don't want to work with kids and prefer to work with older students. I never had a male teacher until I was in year 6 and then my Secondary School had more male teachers than female and the same applied to the college I went to.

Tomorrow: more women have boobs than men - is mother nature conspiring against us? :think:

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Well, you do have Simon Cowell as a counter argument... But yes, this whole world is geared against men, history be damned.

well more are men getting into drugs and committing suicide (possibly before puberty/ before they develop boobs)

Not really bothered if more females go to uni than males. In landscape gardening it's virtually all men and that doesn't bother me either. The female apprentices they did have on needed constant help shifting tools off the van, changing heads on strimmers and handling petrol Hedgecutters.

I don't subscribe to the 'every environment has to have complete split down the middle representation' rule of thumb. if women do better than men in schololarly (if that's a word) fields then crack on I say.

As long as they dont let women become policemen or doctors then I am with Kyle. Let them do the stuff that suits them and let airplanes, combine harvesters and trains be 100% mans jobs like they are at the moment

Lets not fix what is broken

Gotta say I do agree with this. Some jobs are just better for men (generally) than women. And vice versa. And no amount of 'sexism' cries will ever change my opinion tbh.

Men are more likely to take on vocational skills when they're 16 which leads them directly into employment without the needs of a degree.

I've driven a Combine Harvester.... :fist: and so has my mother, and my sisters :smug:

I think we should leave the antiquing to the women though... clearly not a man's job :hehe:

Well that would be impossible

Oi Leathertrumpet, that's not what I'm saying at all. :joker:

If you can do the job I don't care if you're a man, woman or an alien from planet Kirklancaster.

I'm just saying I don't really care if more women are going to uni than men if it suits em better same as more men being in trades that require a lot of grafting/heavy lifting/muscle.

Some of the best police officers and Doctors I know are women. You hold a very unpopular and old-fashioned view, LT. Nobody really cares about genders anymore and that's how it should always be.

Female teachers can be a distraction for boys.I remember calling the hot blonde teacher with the low cut top over constantly so i could see her tits.Boys do learn better from male teachers for this reason.

Idk... I have a sneaking suspicion that a number of the guys on this forum were calling the male teach over to get a better angle view at his bulge

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I'd love to know which schools had all of these teachers in people liked to perv on.

Mine were either really old or just not attractive. :unsure:

I know yeah :laugh: hot blondes with low cut tops? ehhh :umm2:

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My male teachers :yuk:

I remember this one that drank so much coffee he had brown armpit stains from sweating it out on all his tops

i had a couple of stunning young female teachers when I was at primary. At secondary, not so much and they all seemed to be permanently 8 months pregnant :shocked: