This question is often asked as though the answer is elusive or mysterious in some way. However, if you’re a young man who attended grade school after the mid-80s, the answer is pretty obvious. Girls receive preferential treatment and have mountains of incentives heaped on them from the beginning, and coed education creates an environment that punishes normal boys’ behavior. In addition to this, there are real people working hard to give girls an advantage and hurt the chances of boys. Yes, there really are people out there who have a sadistic turn of mind and wage war on certain children. If one wants to hurt people, it is easiest and most effective to attack them when they are weak and defenseless, so what better way to get at a group than to go after the children among them?
One such enforcer is Ileana Jiménez, a teacher at an independent school in New York. On her personal website, Ms. Jiménez touts her credentials:
Throughout her thirteen year career, Ileana Jiménez has been a leader in the field of social justice education for students of color, LGBT youth, women and girls.
Currently a teacher at the Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI) in New York, she offers courses on feminism, Latina/o literature, LGBT literature, and memoir writing.
The hallmarks of her diversity programming initiatives for students include a yearlong series on the intersections of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality in 2007-08 titled Gender and Sexuality: What’s Next in the Conversation? and her interview of Rachel Maddow in 2009. She frequently leads presentations on inclusive programming and curriculum at the annual NAIS People of Color Conference, the NYSAIS diversity conference, and independent schools in the Northeast.
Note that she refers to her coursework as “programming.” How apt.
As a teacher at an independent school, Ms. Jiménez may be a diversity hire and therefore encouraged to take her radicalism to ridiculous lengths to give an otherwise well-heeled, mainly white private school some progressive cred. Of course, the question that ought to be asked is what good it does the poorer students and “students of color” to allow such a loon to represent their interests.
However, even more important is the fact that this woman occupies a position of power over boys (the school is coed) when she has made it absolutely clear that she is primarily interested in helping girls:
A passionate advocate for the education of girls and women, Jiménez is a frequent speaker at Smith College, where she currently chairs the planning committee for the 2010 A Legacy in the Making: A Conference for Alumnae of Color event to be held on campus.
Outside of teaching, Jiménez serves as the board secretary of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, judges for the Lambda Literary Awards, and is a recent alumna of the Progressive Women’s Voices program at the Women’s Media Center in New York.
Ms. Jiménez has even gone so far as to have her students write President Obama demanding that feminism and feminist theory be taught to all students in America, starting in elementary school. Here is an excerpt from a letter she had a girl in her class write:
The first problem that I would like to address is the lack of intersectional feminism within education. Feminism is a wonderful example of how all social injustices interlock. In high schools on down in the education system, children are taught modified African American studies. Students are taught an even more limited version of Women’s Studies. They learn nothing about the struggles of say a Japanese woman during WWII or of an Ethiopian girl’s everyday life.
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To do that, I propose that by fourth grade, students be exposed to basic feminist ideas. Then in middle school, there should be a month in each grade dedicated to learning about basic feminist vocabulary and grasping the ideas and goals of the first, second, and third waves of feminism.
Clearly, the girl is trying to be obedient and impress her teacher. This is normal for schoolchildren, but what if impressing one’s teacher means parroting pseudo-Marxist feminist rhetoric? Is this really what’s important for educating and socializing children in contemporary society? If so, we’re all in big trouble.
The sad thing is that people like Ms. Jiménez are products of the education system themselves. I’m sure most of them were good, obedient students who cranked out page after page of meaningless drivel for their women’s studies professors in college. The problem is that they have become self-replicating robots, plugging into the brains of children to create more automatons for a sort of feminist borg collective. Of course, this won’t work with most children, because kids don’t give a damn about “intersectional feminism” for the most part. But in the meanwhile they will be graded on it, and the ones who are not resistant to the brain-rotting feminist prion will be elevated into positions of prestige and, eventually, authority. Those who actively resist will most certainly be punished in some fashion, and most of them, for obvious reasons, will be boys. That’s how this works: you set up a system that’s guaranteed to determine between allies and enemies, and then dole out rewards and punishment accordingly. It is quite effective.
Because parents cede so much control of their children to schools and teachers these days, it is quite important to keep a close eye on what they are doing. Unfortunately, most parents fail in this regard, and people like Ms. Jiménez, who can inflict real harm on children, are not kept in check. Perhaps if more people understood that the damage done to children by radical feminists and the like in education is likely to have repercussions throughout society in years to come, they’d take them a little more seriously and take steps to remove them from children before they can inflict further abuse.
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CLEARLY, men in the Western sphere must avoid having children: one of them might be a boy.
The solution?
Expat or remain childless.
Yep. I sent my youngest son to an primary school that was mostly for boys and at high school he want to an all boys school in Dublin.
Public schools are destroying boys. Talk t o any boy who is coming out of high school about this.
A crucial component of male failure in school is the prevalence of female teachers.
Teachers often favor children of the same sex. Even a moronic teacher knows better than to answer as such in a “survey.”
Too many teachers named “Himinez” and “Shaniqua” running boys down because the cavalry masacreed the Injuns.
Very telling. Re-read the list of groups and accolades this monster is associated with. First to jump out at me is her membership to the womens media center. You know, I never heard of a men’s media center. Of course, there isn’t one nor will there ever be an organization like that. But, this explains why men are portrayed as dopes and women as far superior in every show and commercial. So, why are boys failing…”real” institutionalized sexism. More aptly put, because its by design, on purpose, planned, deliberate! Shoot, so much of why we are supposedly a feminized society is accountable to what this author wrote – schools, indoctrination, state control, non-government organizations, activism, academic elitism, affirmative action, quotas..the list goes on. With all this deliberately stacked against boys and men no wonder we are falling behind.
I find indoctrination of children to be such an injustice. It used to be the golden rule, upheld in the schools but taught at home. Now the golden rule is too moral, parents too oppressive especially male led heterosexual households. But, deviancy like lesbians and gays must be included..of course, for diversity reasons…and so what if that is somewhat titillating to the adult teachers, like Miz Jimenez (clearly a lesbian), oh well an added benefit. I’m being sarcastic of course. Has anyone heard of the children’s rights initiative being supported by UNESCO (the UN), um, its teaching children to masturbate as young as elementary school – look it up.
I had a teacher in high school 1993, I think; she was in league with this monster. Her one-sided views left such an impression on me that I started a political club at my school in hopes of exposing and stopping this. We published a news bulletin the first one was titled “school indoctrination.” The principal wasn’t assumed.
Well, let’s not forget these single mother household, feminist teacher indoctrinated boys are coming out in large numbers now and they are FAR more likely to commit crimes than boys raised in households. We are seeing in the UK the number of WOMEN robbed or killed by boys from single mother homes is increasing.
So the women are going to reap what they sew. They will be raped, bashed, robbed or killed by the very boys their single mother sistas, and femnazi teaching sistas turned out. And because these boys are all whimps they won’t be bothering any real men like me.
I was on a tram a while back in Germany and this kid spat a ’spitball’ at me and hit me. So I got up, without a word, smack him hard on the side of the head, took his little spit gun off him, and went and sat back in my seat. All without a word. And him and his mates were OUTRAGED that someone had hit him and taken his spit gun….but did they DO anything? No. Effectively, they are women. And women don’t do anything, they always get men to do their dirtywork.
This is what the women have to look forward to. Collapse of society. Total Chaos. Rape, murder, bashings and robbings to become MUCH more widespread. Well done ladies!
Globalman,
Good work with those punks, keep that up. As far as collapse, well, the west is bankrupt both the US and UK are arguably a police state or at least living within soft tyranny.
See my intro in the forum section.
Masculinity strong = constitutional republic
feminity strong = national bankruptcy, soft tyranny, socialism, chaos
Towgunner February 9, 2010 at 21:05
ALL women teachers are crap. No woman teacher EVER taught me anything useful except that women teachers are crap. NOT ONE. And I had a woman teacher at kindergarten. That set the tone for me.
When I went into kindergarten I could already read a newspaper and write quite comfortably. My mum spent days and days with me teaching me these things as I was the youngest child.
When I went to school to learn as my mum had told me about what did they do? They sat me at a desk and told me to shut up. I asked for things to learn and they refused to give me something to do. I spent most of my school life bored and being told to shut up. In 1st class, when I was 6, (40 years ago) I was bored and so I became ‘class clown’. At the end of that year when my dad found out I have been playing ‘class clown’ he whipped my arse so hard I could barely sit for a week.
But still I would not be given extra to do and to learn no matter how much I asked. In junior primary I was usually found counting bricks outside the principals office…sigh. Eventually my parents bought the world book encyclopaedia and that was what I learned from for many years. It was not until I got to 16 and in senior school I got some teachers who were really keen to teach me more than what the curriculum said they should teach me….both men of course. Their efforts were substantiated by me winning a very prestigious scholarship when I was 18, one of only 10 in Australia.
I am very bright, God blessed me. I made it through the crap public school system because my parents were prepared to help me more than just ’school’. All three of us boys went on to great things. The ‘dumb’ one went on to be a doctor after a career as a professional footballer! LOL!!
So I feel real sorry for the boys who are of average ability. These boys stand little or no chance of getting a decent education. And today I hear from young men that it is worse than ever. Only women would deprive a boy of his rightful education and crow about the ‘victory’ of girls over boys. That is really how bad women are. Who do these women think these girls are going to marry? Most of these boys will never have a decent job in their lives. Depopulation roll on…
And the parents (or is that ‘parent’) are paying to the tune of $30K per year for this crap. http://www.lrei.org/admissions/ad_tuition.htm
@ Globalman,
Good to have you on our side. With men like you we have a chance of getting rid of this artificial social engineering plague. Quick thought: feminist are scared of letting boys reach for their full potential…why? Why? Simple, because letting boys excel to their fullest outperforms girls by a wide margin. And feminists can’t have that. Worse for them it that will lead to the patriarchy reestablishes itself naturally. Things are upside down right now, but, it’s important for us to know where the real power is. Globalman, the power is on our side.
What girl uses the phrase "intersectional feminism"? It’s the kind of thing a child would parrot without knowing its meaning, if indeed it has any meaning. I don’t think she wrote that letter, more likely her teacher told her what to write.
So how do we get more men to become teachers?
In the UK at least it’s even more overt than all that. The educrats have rejigged the assessment system to give the poor, oppressed wimmins a better chance. Project work is taking over from exams (‘too stressful for girls’), and when it comes to the remaining exams, multi-choice/short answer questions are out, essays questions are in.
These changes were bought in specifically to boost female performance (and, by definition, lower male performance), but that doesn’t stop the usual suspects citing the supposedly superior performance of girls as proof that they’re the Master Race. Meanwhile, in the real world, people who’s living depends on hiring good staff will tell you that over the same time period, we’ve seen the emergence of people credentialed up the wazoo, but barely literate.
The biggest thing I can think of would be to remove the bull "Education" Degrees that are required for teaching in public schools. I think that there are plenty of men who would be willing to teach school, especially high school, in retirement: The problem is that schools require a four-year teaching degree, which naturally weeds out the best and the brightest in favor of those women whose best option was becoming public school teachers.
I feel so depressed after reading these posts. We are speeding into a wall.
Every time I say to myself that we have reached the bottom of the barrel, something worse pops up.
I have a son and he has made his decision not to reproduce, thanks God. Men’s only choice now is to do likewise.
Our society has to collapse soon or the disease will spread throughout the world.
I can see that, despite a growing men’s movement and men’s anger, things are going from bad to worse.
The cancer has spread too far, too fast. No cure.
I would say “abandon ship” to those who can. There is no more a future for men in the West.
I attended an all-male, Jesuit high school. I never appreciated how particularly that environment was supportive of male development. What we need are segregated schools; let’s argue that boys are so malicious and disruptive that they need to be educated separately. And for God’s sake, do not consign your children to the State!
As for me, my alumni contributions go to the high school, not the now-very-PC college I attended after it.
I also attended an all-boys Catholic HS. It makes a huge difference imo.
Trouble is that the feminists are dead-set against same sex education. It’s been tried in the public schools in the inner cities in NY and Philly and the upper middle class white feminist leadership always comes down hard against it and squashes it for feminist reasons (considered to foster misogyny — because they know that the boys aren’t getting feminist programming or girl-oriented lesson plans in an all-boys environment).
Failed my way right through calc 4. You see penny failed me because I only scored 90s on her tests. I never turned in homework. I actually had real work to do back then. Homework was 60% of the grade. Like I said I failed my from trig through calc. The school had to let me in when I aced the placement tests. I just took my f’s to mean fantastic. Then I quit wasting my money. Doing quite well w/o student debt. I make more money than these schooled fools too.
Rebel,
Don’t loose hope. If men were falling behind for no reason that would be depressing, but we are falling behind because of a deliberate conspiracy to keep us oppressed. This article exemplifies the depths of misandry and institutionalized sexism. Surely, the extent of this conspiracy is depressing, but consider that feminist have to go to such extremes because they are going against nature. Furthermore, they know we are superior and if they let up on their assault, just a little, we take over again. Why, because its nature. So, they are paranoid. Remember, the majority of their destructive policies occurred while you and I were not aware…it was never vetted through a proper democratic process and is entirely unconstitutional.
Things are upside down right now, but, it’s important to keep perspective. Example: I stand in a line to get coffee. Conventional wisdom wants me to believe that the 110 lbs waif next to me is equal in every respect, and indeed is better than me. I’m 6,2 240lbs and know how to fight etc, educated and work a prestigious job – all of which I accomplished on my own. Another thing, I am not afraid of and fully embrace my instinct to be a steward, provider and protector. And instead of cowing over to what pop culture is saying I feel those instincts borrow-up from my soul all the more. I also, think about how far removed most people are from reality. This tinny person is different from me…its obvious…plain as day; what that is, Rebel, is truth. But it’s our PC culture and manipulative media that are powerful enough to take truth and bend it to whatever they want…why do you think a woman’s media center exits?
It’s a faux reality, white is black, up is down, cats are dogs. The good news is truth prevails. Strength overwhelms weakness. Man, not woman, is the most powerful force to ever walk on Earth.
One more thing, Rebel
What you can do?? Keep coming here, keep reading and writing. Tell your friends too. Don’t be afraid to pull your “buddy” aside smack him and say ‘do you know what women really think of you’?? Expose the truth to him, tell him about the real institutional sexism and the purposeful movement to make him extinct.
To me,… public anything ….always means socialist / feminism everything…which always leads to a bully police state , of affairs, over time. For men who have managed to kidkap your male offspring from the american government or its educational system or its legal system , you should seek to have them educated in a all male, priviate school setting, for as long as you possibly can, starting with K. Thru 12. if possible. You should avoid schools with a predominatly female tenured staff, led by a chivarist-mangina principal.
I agree with rebel’s position, that despite how things look now to MRA’s, its not safe for a MALE child to be born at this point in history.
The American Government as we know it, along with the British government must collapse, disolve, weaken, or whatever, to facilitate a sense self reliance and self sufficentcy in men ( hence self-confidence ) instead of the current state of co-dependancy, which have allowed males to become weak and unfulfilled. It is a state that has allowed the government and its ways to trump males because males have no ways or means of their own in order to make a counter stand against a power of 300,000,000 populance. As long as males turn to public government for every possible solution, at every concievable inconveinence , the U.S. GOVERNMENT will always reply in a manner that will seek to DISsolve your male-resolve….
merrimac
there are movements, such as the tea parties, designed to dissolve the state from its current monstrous size to the original constitutional republic. In my opinion, much of the outrage at those townhall meetings were men and women pissed at not just the political/economic (taxation) corruption and tyranny but the social engineering as well. I believe progressive/feminism ideology, and big state (big brother a la 1984) is one of the same. Bring back the constitutional republic and all the little known and unknown pet projects funded wholly or subsidized by taxpayers via layers of bureaucracy, special interest, backroom deals will go bye bye. Think about that. For example, the whole title X or XII mid 1990’s to equalize sports at the university level, under a much smaller state would be gonzo.
In fact, going forward I think the tea parties need to firmly address the un-due influence of non-government organizations (NGO’s) and a centralize media that peddles to politicians and singular political agendas.
In terms of collapse, well, the US is effectively bankrupt right now. The unfunded liabilities measure in the multiples of trillions.
The only way to kill the beast is to cut its throat and to which I mean the Direct tax withdrawal from each “Human’s” ( not “person’s ) Paycheck. HALT, not merely squeeze , the power and moneyvote away from the poli-Lawed-beaurcracies by “DIS” allowing the DIRECT TAXATION OF PAYROLLS. No direct money/Vote… no uncencored public growth or un-censored-public social-Imagineering..no public VoteMoney…= no go.
U.S. bankrupt ?
No…male induced labor is afoot, next…
Bags are packed.
Your major shock is the shock out of complacency. When one is enjoying life and is suddenly shocked by a diagnosis of cancer, it’s as if the world has stopped. True revelation is painful.
Still, the hope lies in the understanding and comprehension of this Reality we now live in – the reality of being challenged by a foe, whether it be cancer or societal collapse.
Stay encouraged by realizing any social change can be wrought by real action. But, the longer the delay the more difficult and messy the process shall be. Wait too long, and only then is the desired change impossible.
Famous song quote…” Fire on the mountain…RUN BOYS, RUN ! ” perhaps, Charlie Danies ?
Re: Firepower / Rebel. February 9, 2010 at 19:46…. I feel so depressed after readin….. Reality….Firepower said “social change can be wrought by (years) of real action. But, the longer the delay the more difficult and messy the process shall be. Wait too long, and only then is the desired change impossible ”
… Feared TRUE ,says merrimac…
45 to 50 years of missed counter-opportunities, that are commonally held by men, for the sake of the male sex, has led the legal imagineers of america and beyond , to adopt and adapt to some insensitively harsh and unfair, Un-Human like, legal progressions….depression ensues….
Welmer,
Youre recent articles have been terrific. These are subjects that need to be broached in mainstream magazines, but often are ignored. VAWA and attendent “must-arrest” laws lead to many men getting arrested for basically prank-call-nothing, and teachers like Jimenez (I had a college lit professor who openly hated the males, especially white ones like me) do everything they can to disadvantage the boys. Luckily boys now have the internet to research, read, and learn if they are inclined to do so, but its still not fair. This is why parents must step up to the plate and take an active role in their own children’s education. The ability to read and perform basic math are the first things the parent should be sure that their child can do, so the child will be able to self-teach when given access to the correct materials. We cannot rely on ideologues like Jimenez to always correctly teach our children.
For crying out loud, reading what the student had written was remeniscent of a ventriloquist act, or maybe she was channeling her teacher.
I must say that I’m grateful that throughout my k-12 education, the teachers were focused on the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic and without any references to feminists or the movement until jr. high turned up a few students who had some extremely liberal moms (interestingly enough, the same students were turning up at school in thong underwear and way too much familiarity with sexual topics at their tender age of 12 and 13.)
They were fairly easy to pick apart once it was clear that they were parroting things they heard at home – I suppose that the wisdom my own mother shared about always appreciating the opportunities and the real
value of education starts with getting the facts and details if you plan on demonstrating how much you say that you know. Nothing worse than talking hard and then falling apart when someone wants facts and evidence and you were counting on not really needing any.
W Results 1 – 10 of about 726,000 for women teachers mathematics. (0.40 seconds)
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I was not a very good math teacher. And I think that’s kind of a problem in elementary schools, especially women teachers. They’re great in the language …
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feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/…/math-anxiety-passed-on-from-women-teachers-to-girlshile trying to find an old article that showed that the more women teachers in a nation’s schools the worse the results, I ran the search below.
It’s only after reading this post that I look back at my own education with a clearer lens. The reckless decisions made by a group of loosely connected women resulted in me systematically being given up on.
My teachers were women (with two exceptions), and one of these women decided I had attention deficit disorder. I was taken to women psychologists for “diagnosis” in which they interviewed my mom. Branded “ADD”, I would be taken out of my elementary classes each week to draw pictures at a table with some other boys, while some women psychologists (probably pursuing master’s theses) asked us questions.
I was lucky. Because of my incredibly supportive family, I was able to move past the stigma. I learned to teach myself, harnessed my own passions, and ultimately did well. I can’t imagine all the other boys at the table had the same supports.
Math anxiety!
This is completely ludicrous on so many levels.
There are educators who really believe this. They go around trying to teach little girls that math is easy, to try to compete with the message they believe society is trying to force on them that math is hard. Part of this is shutting up anyone who has less trouble learning mathematics that the girls do, so that the girls don’t feel discouraged, and their message that “math is easy” isn’t polluted by the presence of anyone who finds the math they are teaching to be, well, easy.
This approach is entirely backwards, and is a meaningful component of why boys are now underachieving. If “math is easy”, then it isn’t worthwhile to spend time on it, since success isn’t an accomplishment… especially when success results in being reprimanded instead of encouraged. Further, if “math is easy” but the child still has trouble, now you’re setting the kid up to feel stupid: “This is supposed to be easy, why aren’t I getting it?”
Instead, we should be teaching that learning is hard, but that’s what makes it worthwhile–if it’s hard for you, it’s probably hard for other kids, too, and that’s what makes success an accomplishment. Of course, that would be setting things up as a competition, and so would run as completely antithetical to the feminist indoctrination plan for making girls do better than boys.
Good article and lots of good comments. I also attended an all-boys Jesuit high school. All my teachers were male – laymen, priests and scholastics. (Scholastics have taken their first vows, but are still addressed as "Mister".) The only females were the school nurse, the secretary in the office and a 50-something spinster who was the librarian and treated us almost like mom. Some softness had already set in – the requirements to wear a blazer and minimum of 2 years of Latin were dropped by the time I got there. Yet the educational environment was still excellent; I would never trade that experience for a co-ed public school "education". There was one fatal flaw – the theology classes sucked. The Vatican II rot was in full force – experienced my first sit-in-a-circle-on-the-floor-Kumbaya Mess there.
I can’t imagine the pounding boys get today with this indoctrination everyday. My HS has since gone co-ed and many of the teachers are females. (No, I don’t send them a cent.)
There are some options available, but not many. Due to my religious beliefs, I know of a couple of excellent schools I would not hesitate to send my son, if I had a son. For dads looking for a secular school, no idea.
Lol, same thing happened with mine, and no, they don’t get a dime from me. Sellout bastards.
On the broader issue, I have a 10 year old son who is now in private school. He started in the highly-touted public schools, but both his mother and I quickly realized that this was a disaster for our math-inclined son. What we saw: a laser-beam like focus on reading and writing at the very earliest levels while delaying math a bit. This sounds well enough to most people (who is really against reading and writing skills, after all), but by setting it up this way with the very skewed focus on it at the very beginning it very much advantages the girls, who are ahead of the boys in verbal skills at that age. So you have pre-K kids keeping written diaries and so on, but math not being given the same attention — resulting in a sex-based performance split developing from the very beginning.
When the math does come along in a year or two, it’s something called "everyday math". Everyday math is a philosophy of teaching mathematics that basically views the kind of math we all learned as kids to be judgmental, narrow-minded and inhibiting of creativity, focusing as it did on mastering computational mechanics to actually get correct answers quickly. Instead, everyday math exposes the kids to four different computational methods, with the idea that the child will then be able to choose whatever method suits their own innate form of "mathematical intelligence and intuition" — yet they must learn to compute using all four methods. The effect of this, which is clearly intended, is to drastically *slow* down the math learning — because when you are learning to do something 4 different ways, things progress more slowly, obviously. The impact, predicatably, is to narrow the math gap between the girls and boys by simply hindering the boys from dashing ahead quickly — it slows everything down to a more "manageable" pace for the students who are not as math-inclined, many of whom are the girls.
So in the end, you had an accelerated verbal curriculum combined with a decelerated mathematics curriculum. This is how the schools have been jury-rigged to favor girls’ performance from day one. We recognized it for what it was and yanked him from the public schools. He now attends a private school where his math class is as advanced as his skills are, and there is no preference given to the girls in how the curriculum is designed.
The public schools are toxic waste for boys. Even leaving aside the obvious feminist programming mentioned in Welmer’s original article, even on the level of brass-tacks academics, the feminist thumb is on the scales, in ways that can sometimes seem subtle but nevertheless are quite recognizable to anyone with their eyes open who is actually looking at what is happening in our early education classrooms today.
Nova, you need to write this up for The Spearhead so it doesn’t get lost being buried in comments.
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