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20 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 23 May \ on: Diploma Inflation and the Erosion of Academic Signaling econ
I agree the problem is self correcting. Young men have been reducing their college enrollment for a decade already.
I think you will be seeing them reduce it much further, too. Also the women are starting to catch on to the problems. Baristahood is not a really good place to be if you have these huge loans to pay off.
IMHO, the problems with men in school starts far sooner, when they are young boys. They are being taught to be girlish in classes, to sit still, not have recesses and phy.ed., they are fed ritillan and all sorts of drugs to calm down without the insight into boys being active beings. The teachers pound them for any infractions of boyish behaviors and banish them to the detention centers for as much as squirming in their chairs after a couple of hours of sitting! This is public education at its finest, isn’t it?
What level are you teaching at? Have you taught at different levels in public education?
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I've only had full-time teaching jobs in college. I was also a substitute teacher for a year or so and saw everything from k-12.
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OK, then you have seen what they do to the boys in public schools. I’ve taught from k-16. When I was teaching college courses, I was teaching them mostly online, so I had time during the day. I took substitute jobs in the local public schools in all grades. I finally could not do the K and 1 grades because they just sucked too much energy out of me. After a full day with them, I would go home and just collapse like a wrung out rag. It was fun and interesting, though. The only jobs I really disliked were for the Middle schoolers, they were a difficult bunch.
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I'm not surprised. The first time I had a 1st grade class, a girl took scissors into the bathroom and cut her own hair with them. I, of course, had no idea she had done it, because I had no idea what her hair had looked like before, but her mom was none to happy.
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Hahaha, this is exactly the situation you put yourself in when you sub in the K-1 grades. Second graders are a bit better and more, could I say human? The kindergarteners and first graders were just little kids that knew not what to expect, any day they went to school, but they had ENERGY and took anything they could suck out of me.
I thought I had lost a kid one time and looked on every bus and everywhere and finally went to the office to report a missing kid. He was a first grader that decided instead of walking home he would go to his friend’s house without telling anyone or bringing a note. I was in a panic because you just don’t lose kids. I was told this was a fairly common occurrence at that school.
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