too right Kate…boys should take home their free DVD and go to school the next day full of the masculine fighting spirit that should come naturally to Britain’s finest..HIAWATHA!take that girls…
Teachers crush competetive spirit. Yes, If we dont win the world cup it will be the teachers fault. I certainly blame my old chemistry teacher for Englands dismal performance in the Rugby on sunday.
“A generation of boys is leaving school unable to cope in the modern world because lessons have become “feminised”, according to a renowned academic.”
….So the daily mail reports it! And boys are apparently failing in job interviews because of this.
I get the impression it goes like this at the Daily Mail….
Academic: “Hi, I’ve err got a story. I think that school is too feminine for our boys.”
DM: “Well, we could put it in the paper I guess…is this just your opinion?”
Academic: “Yeh. But i’m an academic”
DM: “Well why didn’t you say? It’s going on the front page of tomorrow’s paper”
Girls are doing better at school because they’re less likely to have the stupid idea that academic achievement is uncool, not because the lessons are all girly.
This is a repeating story, just like BaaBaa Green Sheep. It’s cropped up every other year since GCSEs were introduced
Yes, a lot of boys are failing, but the change is schooling is also partly in response to a change in the workplace, as well as those darned feminists.
Physical strength isn’t especially emphasised in schools, because there are very few manual labour jobs where it’s required. As for competition not being present, I would say the fact that students still get grades shows there is some competition there is kids want to compete.
The author falls into the dangerous trap of assuming there are male and female traits which are innate, rather than learned.
Bring back ‘British Bulldog’. Anyone else old enough to remember that? Now that WAS competitive. Silly headline but nice photo.
P.S. famaf – I am quite enjoying C4 news. At last an objective news programme. Nice one.
I loved British Bulldog. Even though it was competative and I am a girl. We just called it Bulldog though, clearly we were very PC kids.
I also loved Staggy, but my primary school banned it due to the fact kids kept getting injured against walls and fences.
I’ve never met anybody else who’s heard of this game.
Leggy up got banned too, because it was essentially a game of tag, where instead of tagging people you tripped them up.
you know kids i think we have a love story unfolding, i thought the spelling and grammer nit picking, was hateful, but no it was just the old school yard pigtails game.
I played British Bulldog at school too. i’m 19 and we played it until the age of about 11 or 12. At high school people (especially girls) stopped playing it, it wasn’t banned or “too competitive” or anything, i think people just stopped cos it was no longer the “in” thing to do.
I think schools are very competitive nowadays, just in a different way to how they used to be – they’re competing to get the right academic results out of their pupils and get to the top of the league tables.
Maybe that lovely looking electrical storm could unleash itself on the Daily Mail building and raise it to the ground then we wouldnt have to put up with this crap.
It seems the person behind the headline is Dr Tony Sewell. Assuming it to be the same fella, he also came up with the theory that Jamaica is so violent because all the males on the island are suppressing their homosexuality.
haha thats funny bakewards…but i am very glad penry’s watching c4news…i also secretly think ‘he’s’ a girl who adopted a male pseudonym to avoid detection when she first came onto the site…there’s just something about her sentence structure..
..anyway, bulldog kicked ass used to play that all the time…liked it cos i could run fast..
Sorry famaf but we’re back to disagreeing again and at least this time I know I’m right. I can say without fear of contradiction that I’m definately a male (unless I’m not being told something!). Bit worried about the comment on sentence though. Hmmmmm. Anyway, glad we agree on British Bulldog and C4 news. How about Pirates? Does that ring a bell with anyone?
Sewell has also theorised that it is a lack of black role models and not poverty which leads to black boys underachieving. He also previously stated that it is youth/pop culture which leads to low acheivement as it does not promote academic success. He seems to have changed his tune if it is now schools’ fault.
You got it hel only in my time at school you had two ‘pirates’ chasing you and it was the last pair left who won. One of the things worth going to school for. Brilliant fun until it fell foul of the dreaded H&S regs. Pity.
When I was at primary we used to play British bulldogs, and a horrible game called ‘Black Panther’ – it was basically a kind of role playing game based on the exploits of some shabby seventies mass murderer. During the holidays we used to go into the woods, all kitted up in helmets, camoflage gear, rifles, pistols etc and play ‘Vietnam’….great fun!
Just when you’d got used to the sun…. it became night-time!!
Honestly :rolleyes:
Ban schools! And ban girls!
oh so now it’s not just the nhs, police, government and fellow man against us. now the schools are too.
when will this fucking fear mongering stop.
makes me angry, and even more angry that people buy into this crap.
Sweeping generalisations by previously unknown academic treated as “news” by Daily Mail.
READERS BEING FAILED BY CRAP JOURNALISTS
too right Kate…boys should take home their free DVD and go to school the next day full of the masculine fighting spirit that should come naturally to Britain’s finest..HIAWATHA!take that girls…
maybe boys would do better at school if they read books instead of watching free DVDs!
Most of the Mail’s editorial team are male.
Boys should pull themselves together and eat some fish
perhaps the boys have been distracted by their girlfriends trying to get conservatories out of them..
Give them more fish oil.
BAN WEATHER NOW
“Just when you got used to the sun” – BOW BEFORE ME AS I THINK FOR YOU
As the DM reports on a daily basis, boys are too busy going round in hoodies looking for ASBO’s!!
Teachers crush competetive spirit. Yes, If we dont win the world cup it will be the teachers fault. I certainly blame my old chemistry teacher for Englands dismal performance in the Rugby on sunday.
Collect all 11 – or else!
How are they defining “succeed in life” here? I suspect they mean “getting a job that pays shitloads”. Not everyone wants that, guys!
(the benefits people gave me my money at last! YAY!)
“A generation of boys is leaving school unable to cope in the modern world because lessons have become “feminised”, according to a renowned academic.”
….So the daily mail reports it! And boys are apparently failing in job interviews because of this.
I get the impression it goes like this at the Daily Mail….
Academic: “Hi, I’ve err got a story. I think that school is too feminine for our boys.”
DM: “Well, we could put it in the paper I guess…is this just your opinion?”
Academic: “Yeh. But i’m an academic”
DM: “Well why didn’t you say? It’s going on the front page of tomorrow’s paper”
How do you “feminise” maths?
Girls are doing better at school because they’re less likely to have the stupid idea that academic achievement is uncool, not because the lessons are all girly.
This is a repeating story, just like BaaBaa Green Sheep. It’s cropped up every other year since GCSEs were introduced
Yes, a lot of boys are failing, but the change is schooling is also partly in response to a change in the workplace, as well as those darned feminists.
Physical strength isn’t especially emphasised in schools, because there are very few manual labour jobs where it’s required. As for competition not being present, I would say the fact that students still get grades shows there is some competition there is kids want to compete.
The author falls into the dangerous trap of assuming there are male and female traits which are innate, rather than learned.
Bring back ‘British Bulldog’. Anyone else old enough to remember that? Now that WAS competitive. Silly headline but nice photo.
P.S. famaf – I am quite enjoying C4 news. At last an objective news programme. Nice one.
penry…wicked to hear..jon snow’s a living legend..
I loved British Bulldog. Even though it was competative and I am a girl. We just called it Bulldog though, clearly we were very PC kids.
I also loved Staggy, but my primary school banned it due to the fact kids kept getting injured against walls and fences.
I’ve never met anybody else who’s heard of this game.
Leggy up got banned too, because it was essentially a game of tag, where instead of tagging people you tripped them up.
ahh penry and famaf are agreeing again.
you know kids i think we have a love story unfolding, i thought the spelling and grammer nit picking, was hateful, but no it was just the old school yard pigtails game.
good luck guys.
I played British Bulldog at school too. i’m 19 and we played it until the age of about 11 or 12. At high school people (especially girls) stopped playing it, it wasn’t banned or “too competitive” or anything, i think people just stopped cos it was no longer the “in” thing to do.
I think schools are very competitive nowadays, just in a different way to how they used to be – they’re competing to get the right academic results out of their pupils and get to the top of the league tables.
Maybe that lovely looking electrical storm could unleash itself on the Daily Mail building and raise it to the ground then we wouldnt have to put up with this crap.
It seems the person behind the headline is Dr Tony Sewell. Assuming it to be the same fella, he also came up with the theory that Jamaica is so violent because all the males on the island are suppressing their homosexuality.
http://www.blink.org.uk/print.asp?key=4595
(hope the link is okay, works for me but also brings up my printer!)
That repressed homosexual gangster stuff sounds like the kind of the thing Genet might have said.
haha thats funny bakewards…but i am very glad penry’s watching c4news…i also secretly think ‘he’s’ a girl who adopted a male pseudonym to avoid detection when she first came onto the site…there’s just something about her sentence structure..
..anyway, bulldog kicked ass used to play that all the time…liked it cos i could run fast..
The Mail says ‘bring back bullying in schools to toughen up boys’
Sorry famaf but we’re back to disagreeing again and at least this time I know I’m right. I can say without fear of contradiction that I’m definately a male (unless I’m not being told something!). Bit worried about the comment on sentence though. Hmmmmm. Anyway, glad we agree on British Bulldog and C4 news. How about Pirates? Does that ring a bell with anyone?
Interesting find Bernadette.
Sewell has also theorised that it is a lack of black role models and not poverty which leads to black boys underachieving. He also previously stated that it is youth/pop culture which leads to low acheivement as it does not promote academic success. He seems to have changed his tune if it is now schools’ fault.
oops sorry penry…
*Definitely* right?
If I look outside it’s sunny, funny that.
Maybe that academic needs to meet up with littlejohn and talk about the good old days.
is Pirates the game where you have to get around the gym on the gym equipment and if you touch the floor (the “sea”) you “drown”?
You got it hel only in my time at school you had two ‘pirates’ chasing you and it was the last pair left who won. One of the things worth going to school for. Brilliant fun until it fell foul of the dreaded H&S regs. Pity.
yeah it was a great game, made PE worth it! I didn’t know it fell foul of health & safety though.
We used to play bulldog and several more vilent versions of it ahh good times
When I was at primary we used to play British bulldogs, and a horrible game called ‘Black Panther’ – it was basically a kind of role playing game based on the exploits of some shabby seventies mass murderer. During the holidays we used to go into the woods, all kitted up in helmets, camoflage gear, rifles, pistols etc and play ‘Vietnam’….great fun!