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Originally Posted by Jaysus

what has any of this got to do with it

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.