One of our regular readers pointed out new research commissioned by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission about how schools were supporting the public sector equality duty and what practices they were carrying out. It is a long document (192 pages and the Commission response was thankfully 28).
While its conclusions state that 75% of schools were able to provide a positive example of how the duty had had a positive impact on boys, only 13% had actually either changed the curriculum to help boys or taken another action to improve boy's learning (chart on page 77).
In addition, contributed to measurable outcomes, schools were most likely to say they had ensured that clubs/activities/subjects/sports are open to both boys and girls (19%).
While there are clear problems in the education of boys, it seems that ensuring equality in being involved in clubs is more important. The underlying message is that improving boys attainment is not on the top of the equality agenda within schools when clearly it is the most important education issue.
The anti-male Equalities and Human Rights Commission continues to purposely turn a blind eye on the issue and barely mention boys in their report. We all know if it was girls who were falling behind at school, the Commission would be churning out reams of reports on that subject alone and Trevor Phillips (its Chairman) would never be off the airwaves.
The scandal of the neglect of boys education (and here) shames this country and the silence on the issue is a victory for the metropolitan anti-male elite including the majority of those at the top of the education establishment (not all) who are quite happy to continue to sweep it under the carpet.
Posted by Skimmington
Editor's note - Mayor of London Boris Johnson scheme is noteworthy.
Good post on a hugely important topic.
I think we need to continue using the phase "gender education gap" as much as possible as it really does make gender feminists look very stupid and show they're obsessed with relatively trivial issues mainly down to choice.
We really need to get more men into teaching (and non feminist females too), though things seem to be getting worse in that regard rather than better.
It's worth taking note of the age of male teachers in our primary schools, I hate to think what the situation is going to be like in 10 years times when so many have retired:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012707/A-quarter-primary-schools-male-teachers.html
Posted by: John Kimble | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 01:03