Harris, who taught in an all-boys school for 15 years, said “the way we educate our children” must change if we wanted to see fewer crimes against women.
She said: “We have to stop girls being apologetic when they have done nothing wrong. We have to stop boys being entitled when they’re actually not entitled to have more than anybody else. We’ve got to stop teaching them differently as teachers, that will help a lot.
“Also we’ve got to stop giving them the message that it’s wrong for a boy to read books about girls. Because even schools are giving them this message. And this is where the problem happens, where women’s voices are perceived as less.”
I mean, if you don't name any (and in these modern times, what school would dare give such a message?) we might think you're just talking absolute bollocks, mightn't we?
But it is not so simple now. We have all the LBGQetc. genders now.
ReplyDeleteSchools have to be very careful. And they still have to squeeze in the basics of a language, big sums and how to use social medja.
For us Boomers is was simple. School taught simple stuff . English, history, geography, PE, science, music, science and maths.
Reading about girls was done outside school. Jane Eyre, Lorna Doone, Wuthering Heights, Fanny Hill, etc. All done in our own time.
It's called 'progress'. Or so they claim...
ReplyDeleteSo, we've got to teach them how to be good little Marxists then? Everyone is equal, everything needs to be looked at through the lens of oppressor and oppressed? Yeah, we reeeeally need that in schools.
ReplyDeletePolitics needs to be removed from schools except in political studies.