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Dec. 7th, 2010 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seventheThis article ("The Boy Crisis (Again)") has got me thinking, and thinking things I'd like to discuss.
First of all: rather than "The Boy Crisis", can we say "The Education Crisis"? FFS, a failing education system helps NO ONE. (By this I mean "not Liss", because I know she says it from the viewpoint of irony. I mean the original author / commenters / etc.)
Second: the SATs ARE bullshit. And this is from someone who scored a 1570/1600 on them.
Third, and longest: I can sum this article up basically by being like "OMFG NOOOOO, BOYS NOW HAVE TO WORK HARD TOO." And it - that thought - I've never actually put this together like this before, but as a girl going into science and engineering, I was told - it was implied - I knew I'd have to work FUCK-HARD to get anywhere I wanted to. I've been "trying" for a while, doing more than "passing", more than "meets", because that was the way I had to "prove myself."
And now boys are getting the same message?
*tiniest violin*
First of all: rather than "The Boy Crisis", can we say "The Education Crisis"? FFS, a failing education system helps NO ONE. (By this I mean "not Liss", because I know she says it from the viewpoint of irony. I mean the original author / commenters / etc.)
Second: the SATs ARE bullshit. And this is from someone who scored a 1570/1600 on them.
Third, and longest: I can sum this article up basically by being like "OMFG NOOOOO, BOYS NOW HAVE TO WORK HARD TOO." And it - that thought - I've never actually put this together like this before, but as a girl going into science and engineering, I was told - it was implied - I knew I'd have to work FUCK-HARD to get anywhere I wanted to. I've been "trying" for a while, doing more than "passing", more than "meets", because that was the way I had to "prove myself."
And now boys are getting the same message?
*tiniest violin*
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Date: 2010-12-10 12:39 am (UTC)Academia is not a friendly place.
That is coupled with people trying to streamline the education system. No one can fail, not till you get to college. That leaves people entirely unprepared for college at large and thus heavily weighs college in the favor of people whose parents have gone and whose parents can afford expensive tutors.
Hell, even when I was trying to get into graduate school, I heard at least five times "Your father is probably an engineer". I realize it wasn't meant this way, but it came off as if I couldn't make the choice to get into the field on my own.
/rant.