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One of the many troubling realizations from my year or so researching child education is that boys are systemically subject to contempt & punishment from teachers who perceive natural variation in behavior, very likely due in large part to sex, as a failure of personal characterhttps://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1168535361800278021 …
Slight improvements on the "personal character" model are increasingly in play — the medical model, with a shocking comfort with using powerful controlled substances on boys as young as 4 or 5, or the socio-emotional model, where scripts are used to suppress behavior gently
The problem is that these all *suppress* behavior. We're overdue for a mastery model that offers a framework in which natural tendencies toward energetic physicality and aggression unlock better and better play. Martial arts & sports are examples, rarely offered to the very young
The best opportunities for mastery don't rely on frameworks designed by adults, but it's difficult to get anyone on board with this. Throwing your little hellions outside until they've worn themselves out on their own terms feels like it belongs to an impossibly distant era
“boys are systemically subject to contempt & punishment from teachers” damn i went through a above average # of schools as a kid and this was def one of the most consistent things about all of those experiences
i recall always feeling the unfairness when the worst of it would happen, but then slowly assuming that the “failure in personal character” must be true the presumed infallibility of teachers, and what it lets them get away with increasingly bothers me post-high school
have you published your research yet? super interested in this topic.
Segregate schools male and female. Is there any benefit to the current co-Ed system? Side note: Jack ‘n Jill sports suck.
Education for my son is one of the most daunting tasks ahead of me. He is 3 months old. I plan to homeschool and get him involved in the "family business" which in my case is technology startups, from a very young age. It's quite unconventional so I'm not fully sure of myself.
I haven't fully ruled out school, but seems there are so many hurdles and issues there. In another life I taught high school and I think I could do better than that for him.
One of the benefits of Montessori schools; they recognize the energy of children and use it rather than crush it. Akido vice police state.
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