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View submission: Boys Want a Strong Relationship With Their Teachers. That Doesn't Always Happen
'it sounds like your point is that its good and right that students lack strong relationships with teachers.'
Nope.
I am not remotely interested with nebulous words like 'good or right.'
The problem is boys' social and academic failure at school by comparison with girls; their premature ego-death, and how it can be prevented.
A role model is 'someone like me but better' or 'someone I want to be.'
It is a hard fact that the vast majority of boys aged 11 to 16 do not see this in women. If they have no male role-models themselves (no dad, no brother) the need for a man to pattern themselves on become a desperate rudderless compulsion, a lifelong pathology that will drive them into the arms of toxic masculinity cults, criminal gangs, authoritarian political groups, creepy subcultures, and other dubious dad substitutes.
It is not sexist to acknowledge this; it is in fact very irresponsible to present this desperate need as mere bias or chauvinism and the needy boys as stupid or pathetic or weak..
There's nothing here!