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View submission: Boys Want a Strong Relationship With Their Teachers. That Doesn't Always Happen
We get pushback from teachers, not just motivated by the additional burden [of being asked to implement one more classroom strategy], but because, for example, they’ve always regarded boys as feral beasts that need to be dominated and controlled,” Reichert said.
He suggests this perception is in part to blame for the disproportionately high discipline rates among boys, which begin in preschool and continue through high school.
Maybe we should have more research in bias from female teachers against male students. Though to an extent that research does exist and it doesn’t look good.
Buskirk acknowledges that he’s not as quick as most of his colleagues to reprimand the boys in his class, who, along with their female counterparts, routinely score well above average for their grade level on literacy-based Maryland College and Career Readiness standards.
Value of male teachers aside, there’s clear research that black students get reprimanded harder and quicker than their white counterparts even with similar behavior.
Cursory google search shows about 80% of ES and MS teachers are women, and 80% of teachers are white.
‘Non-transactional’ parts of the school day help foster deeper relationships
I can’t completely blame teachers for not developing more non-transactional relationships. The school mentioned is a private school and said they encourage this behavior. Public school teachers can’t claim to get this much support.
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