Comments by "Granny Annie" (@grannyannie2948) on "Growing literacy gender gap emerges among Australian primary school students" video.

Too many female teachers who don't understand boys. We need more male teachers and male focused learning.
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@donotcomply665 There are online schools that will assist in that. Its important to add plenty of playdates and perhaps a sporting interest so they meet with peers. The problem for many parents is being able to afford a stay at home parent. Having only had daughters I discovered during covid how difficult it is to homeschool boys. We are blessed to have an old fashioned rural RC school in our town. The class sizes are 10 -12 and since the school is so small the male head teacher actually teaches, and takes at least a class a week in every grade. So far we've had no issues with the curriculum.
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That's good to hear. One of my grandson's is like that, and when I was at school it was taken for granted girls were good at English boys were good at maths.
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@DanielSMatthews True. The bell curves for IQ are very different for males and females and this is nolonger represented by educational attainment. Though TBH I would not encourage my grandkids to go to university in the current climate. Perhaps partly from selfishness, but I hope not. I feel the boys especially are better off becoming electricians or builders, and continue to live semi rurally, marry a local girl, etc. And for the girls, similar in reverse. In Marxist terms I think it's better to own the means of your own production and to have skills that can't easily be offshored.
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@DanielSMatthews True. As an extended family we often discuss buying a few acres of very rural land, as a weekender. If we must go back to the middle ages, better to do so on our own terms. My eldest gson is on the spectrum, he got offered his first job aged six, until the employer realised his age, and another one aged eight. The first one was as a tattoo artist, the second as a tour guide. He loves our little town. I fear university would ruin him. He'll have to go to the city to complete year 11 and 12. Even that's frightening. One of our friends daughter in one week of year 11 in a city school, came back gender fluid, with a new name and pronoun. And autistic kids are known to be vulnerable to this.
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@DanielSMatthews I'm not so sure. I've read a lot over the decades of a productive Mediaeval English farm. And I have a similar climate. And we have the advantage of potatoes (a winter crop) and pumpkins which they did not have. But anything registered to the government can be taken by government ultimately. That's my concern. * Yes but he hates school. It gets in the way of whatever he wants to research. His second job offer was in a small zoo of exotic Australian animals. All animals he loved and he'd prepared long speeches to entertain us. The boss in her office mistook his voice for that of a girl of employable age. He admits he'd like to work in a small zoo, or a museum, or as a farmer. He's already a skilled chicken breeder. As a baby he was amazing. He independently came up with the concept of a thousand before his second birthday. At about the same time I had told him that Trex meant King of the Terrible lizards. Having sequestered his mother's mobile phone ( something that toddlers are all skilled at doing these days) the next morning corrected me that sauras was a Greek work, not Latin. And it was tyrant lizard, not terrible lizard. So he's clever. But only if he's interested. But he's more like Newton he sees school as something stealing his time from what he's actually interested in. But he's the sweetest kid. Always sees the best in people. But you have to make him eat and drink. As this also interferes with his research. And cannot tie his shoe laces. * Also even in the Middle Ages nobody was completely self sufficient. Nor were the 70s hippy communes. And my parents had plenty of friends living on those.
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@DanielSMatthews Blessings that sounds fantastic. His ambition at the moment is to move in with me when he's twelve because he's sick to death of the noise his siblings make when he's studying, or doing the amazing drawings that led to his first job offer. Don't get me wrong he loves his siblings. But he has lots of them. And even living rurally, all his parents could afford to buy was a small three bed house.
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@DanielSMatthews True. And I think this used to be better understood. When I was in primary school boys and girls were unashamedly treated differently. I also went to a girls highschool. I don't really think co-ed highschools help either sex to fully concentrate on school work.
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@rapscallion9333 Feminists have a lot to answer for, they hate men, women and especially children, they even believe killing babies is a right.
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@DanielSMatthews Exactly, I think classes shouldn't be co-ed in junior highschool. But how that works when nobody can define a woman.
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