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 …
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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
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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
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And girls who are insufficiently good at reading social cues, quiet, self-effacing, gentle, and considerate are systemically subject to contempt and punishment from teachers and students. But for some reason Quillette isn’t publishing, and Pinker isn’t tweeting, about that.
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Sex differences in teacher perception and classroom interventions are just really, really easy to study, and have been studied extensively. But it's true that "social skills" as colloquially understood look like a big mediating factor, and girls have substantial variation too
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