Why do you blame teachers, apparently because they’re women, and not their parents?
This is the result of giving “conservative” misogynists a platform instead of a black eye.
Comment on Misogyny is thriving in our schools. Why aren’t we doing more?
Sheppa@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Aren’t most teachers women? Why aren’t women doing anything to address this, something is clearly failing in their classrooms.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
you’re weird…
You ask a question, then instantly answer it
You then resort to physical violence.
good show…
Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Err, these boys aren’t being taught Misogyny 101 in the classroom…the female teachers are often the victims here. Asking them to solve this problem is delusional.
Sheppa@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
101? What are you a yank?
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
Is it our responsibility?
Sheppa@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
Well it’s men’s responsibility every other time, so yes.
Cube6392@beehaw.org 1 day ago
i don’t know how things are in Australia, but i do know how misogyny is so common in American schools. you can’t think of it as being individual failures on behalf of the teachers. you have to think of this as entire system of patriarchy that selects for individuals who are less likely to resist it.
firstly are the weed out systems:
- a school teacher needs 4-6 years worth of higher education to be eligible to teach meaning a school teacher is more likely to come from a wealthier, more conservative background
- a school teacher is paid poverty wages, making them more reliant on spousal support, creating a soft reinforcement of traditional gender roles
- teachers are hired by administrators who are usually men, men who can have unaudited privilege in the system of patriarchy, creating bias in what they consider “professional” for a teacher towards someone who will fit into this overall system
then there’s the reinforcement systems
- you are genuinely correct that most teachers are more progressive when it comes to social issues, but they are also making poverty wages meaning they’re more reliant on the job. they’re more desperate and therefore less likely to upset the apple cart
- teachers are not the only people who interact with kids. administrators are usually who operate the punishment system in a school. this punishment system creates an interplay between the nurturing mother stock character and the disciplinary father stock character. the disciplinary father stock character in his role will often hand children mysogynistic views very directly.
Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 day ago
a school teacher needs 4-6 years worth of higher education to be eligible to teach meaning a school teacher is more likely to come from a wealthier, more conservative background
Most Australian university students have their study 100% funded upfront by the Australian government and only pay it back over time if they earn above a minimum threshold, so the connection between socioeconomic background and university education isn’t as strong as in the US (though it definitely still exists).
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
a school teacher is more likely to come from a wealthier, more conservative background
I couldn’t find stats for Australia, but in America teachers are statistically more likely to be Democrats than Republicans, so I don’t think this is supported.
It is also worth noting that, though I couldn’t find anything on Australian educators’ political leanings, teachers are one of the most highly unionised workforces in the country, and our centrist party (the one the media and many in the general public would call “centre-left”, like your Democrats) has explicit ties to the union movement.
a school teacher is paid poverty wages
In Australia they’re paid quite well. It doesn’t scale as highly for the average teacher as it does in many other highly educated jobs, but the base salary is pretty good. There’s the important caveat that teachers are largely expected to spend their own money on classroom supplies, though.
teachers are hired by administrators who are usually men, men who can have unaudited privilege
Teachers in Australia are hired by the department based largely on very impersonal factors like qualifications. There’s not a huge amount of room, at the level of classroom teachers, for that kind of bias to have as much of an effect. What more personal decisionmaking does happen is done largely by principals, who are former teachers themselves. Because hiring is done at the department level, principles can get involved in decisions like who gets a job at which school, but the fact that they have a job at all is much more impersonal. The promotion and hiring of principles and other non-classroom positions may be a different question.
That said, I’m not disagreeing with your main point. It is a systemic failure. At a scale far larger than merely within schools.
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 18 hours ago
If you don’t know how things are in Australia, why are you entering the discussion?
Cube6392@beehaw.org 6 hours ago
to discuss how these things happen in other parts of the world with similar roots of anglocentric patriarchy. i’m not trying to drive the conversation, just provide “here’s what happens in another part of the world, maybe it will help analyze your systems”
blind3rdeye@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
In primary school most teachers are women, but in high school - which is what we’re talking about, it’s pretty balanced.
More to the point though, something is failing in classrooms. That’s what the article is about, hence the title “misogyny is thriving in our schools”. Obviously it is not being caused by the teachers. The teachers do not want this to happen. It makes for a horrible work environment - especially for the female teachers. Programs and strategies are being implemented to try to address the problem, but the root of the problem is not from the school itself.
I hope that answers your genuine good-faith questions on the topic.
Sheppa@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
Wrong, in High School (and every other teaching field) the majority of teachers are women.
www.acara.edu.au/reporting/…/staff-numbers
Obviously the teachers do not want this to happen, but they are the ones in the position to teach otherwise and so I ask, why are these women not doing so?
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The problem is lack of good male role models.