The title is a reference to the gender composition of my son's 3rd grade class next year. As this year wound down, the students found out who their teachers will be in the coming year, and who would be in the class.
Unsolicited and out of the blue, my son tells me that next year he and 3 other boys will be sharing a classroom with 20 girls. Perhaps he's mistaken, but he said the exact same thing to his mother, and it would be an odd proclamation for him to simply make up. For now at least, I'm inclined to believe it, much to my apprehension and dismay.
Having seen enough of his school programs, encompassing all the students of his elementary school, I've seen a fairly equal number of boys and girls, and most certainly not a 5-1 ratio, which leads me to wonder what goes into a decision of forming a classroom with such a tilted balance of the sexes, especially at this age.
1. I'm mistaken and there really are that many more girls than boys.
- Possible.
2. The classes are made up at random and this just happened.
- Again, possible, but unlikely.
3. Perhaps another class will have far more boys than girls to balance this out.
- Possible, but it leaves me dubious about the school's methods and decisions.
4. Class makeup is entirely intentional and done for purpose yet to be ascertained if ever.
- Being from this corner of the internet, I'm leaning this way. The education system in this country is what it is, and it's controlled by whom it's controlled by. The question here would be why.
By all measures my son has done well in school thus far, and while he hasn't seem particularly troubled by any subject, he' also got the familiar element of being bored with the curriculum in places, which reminds me of myself all throughout school, so I don't worry too much about it. He's social and has plenty of friends, and comes home from school long enough to eat something, and then he's back out with them until dinner time most nights. His teachers have never complained about his behavior, so this certainly can't be a placing based on that. I'll have to find out who the other 3 boys are, and see if I can make any observations.
It would be unfortunate if being stuck in an already feminized educational system and having the compounded by an abundance of female classmates interfered with what's been nothing but positive development for him so far. The only male I've seen in that school is the principal, so there's little chance he will have a male teacher to provide even a little bit of balance to all this, although I can only imagine what a male 3rd teacher would be like these days. (No offense to any elementary schools teachers here)
All I know is I'll be watching him like a hawk next year to ensure he's not fucked over in the name of what could be another feel-good experiment in the public education system. And any parent-teacher meeting next year that involves my son becoming problematic in class is going to get colorful.
I couldn't imagine spending all the time surrounded by 8 and 9 year old girls, who are on the cusp of their transformation in modern empowered wymyn, and probably already showing the signs of their futures in committing cuntrocities against the opposite sex. (especially in 2014) And looking back on being in grade school, I realized just how much interaction I had with my male classmates, and how important that was in me becoming well adjusted individual, even though I changed schools 3 times before 4th grade. It's how I learned to interact with other people and make new friends when I lost my old ones. Socializing with girls was never given much thought because the immense divide between them and us was simply so obvious.
Unsolicited and out of the blue, my son tells me that next year he and 3 other boys will be sharing a classroom with 20 girls. Perhaps he's mistaken, but he said the exact same thing to his mother, and it would be an odd proclamation for him to simply make up. For now at least, I'm inclined to believe it, much to my apprehension and dismay.
Having seen enough of his school programs, encompassing all the students of his elementary school, I've seen a fairly equal number of boys and girls, and most certainly not a 5-1 ratio, which leads me to wonder what goes into a decision of forming a classroom with such a tilted balance of the sexes, especially at this age.
1. I'm mistaken and there really are that many more girls than boys.
- Possible.
2. The classes are made up at random and this just happened.
- Again, possible, but unlikely.
3. Perhaps another class will have far more boys than girls to balance this out.
- Possible, but it leaves me dubious about the school's methods and decisions.
4. Class makeup is entirely intentional and done for purpose yet to be ascertained if ever.
- Being from this corner of the internet, I'm leaning this way. The education system in this country is what it is, and it's controlled by whom it's controlled by. The question here would be why.
By all measures my son has done well in school thus far, and while he hasn't seem particularly troubled by any subject, he' also got the familiar element of being bored with the curriculum in places, which reminds me of myself all throughout school, so I don't worry too much about it. He's social and has plenty of friends, and comes home from school long enough to eat something, and then he's back out with them until dinner time most nights. His teachers have never complained about his behavior, so this certainly can't be a placing based on that. I'll have to find out who the other 3 boys are, and see if I can make any observations.
It would be unfortunate if being stuck in an already feminized educational system and having the compounded by an abundance of female classmates interfered with what's been nothing but positive development for him so far. The only male I've seen in that school is the principal, so there's little chance he will have a male teacher to provide even a little bit of balance to all this, although I can only imagine what a male 3rd teacher would be like these days. (No offense to any elementary schools teachers here)
All I know is I'll be watching him like a hawk next year to ensure he's not fucked over in the name of what could be another feel-good experiment in the public education system. And any parent-teacher meeting next year that involves my son becoming problematic in class is going to get colorful.
I couldn't imagine spending all the time surrounded by 8 and 9 year old girls, who are on the cusp of their transformation in modern empowered wymyn, and probably already showing the signs of their futures in committing cuntrocities against the opposite sex. (especially in 2014) And looking back on being in grade school, I realized just how much interaction I had with my male classmates, and how important that was in me becoming well adjusted individual, even though I changed schools 3 times before 4th grade. It's how I learned to interact with other people and make new friends when I lost my old ones. Socializing with girls was never given much thought because the immense divide between them and us was simply so obvious.