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Empowering Men:
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Female Teachers Oppress Male Students
(slightly edited and five times updated)
Peter Zohrab 2017 |
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(Open Letter to the Ministers of Education and Tertiary Education)
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Dear Nikki Kaye and Paul Goldsmith,
As a mature student at Victoria University
of Wellington, I have witnessed how its student body seems
to be in the process of becoming a male-free environment. Moreover,
there seems to be no obvious feeling that this situation is in any
way abnormal and it seems to be a feature of Western countries. In
addition, since Feminism dominates the education system, the media,
the public service and Parliament, the only explanations for this
phenomenon which receive any publicity are ones which are compatible
with Feminism.
However, there are many problems in
Society which are caused by Feminism, but which are analysed by the
dominant Feminists in ways that (of course) shy away from criticising
Feminist itself!
The issues of girls in schools and of boys in schools, in that historical
order, have received a lot of attention. These issues have had their
flow-on effects on the universities and (presumably) on other tertiary
institutions. I have been a teacher (mostly at the secondary level)
and a long-time student at the tertiary level. This gives me some
insights, I believe.
Some articles by Fergusson et al. provide
valuable objective evidence from longitudinal studies about the causes
of the current dominance of female studentss in the higher education
system.
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Fergusson et al. (1991) state, in relation to eight to eleven-year-old
children, "... in the areas of reading and written expression
teachers showed consistent tendencies to evaluate the performance
of girls more favourably than the boys even after adjustment for
gender differences in objective test scores were (sic) made"(op
cit, abstract).
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Fergusson et al. (1997) find, unsurprisingly, that "Throughout
the school career of this cohort males achieved less well than females"
(op cit, abstract). They also find that "... the higher rate
of educational under-achievement in males was adequately explained
by gender related differences in classroom behaviours with males
being more prone to disruptive and inattentive classroom behaviours
that appeared to impede male learning and lead to a male eduational
disadvantage" (op cit, abstract). However, the data on classroom
behaviour was provided by teachers, and we have already seen that
there is evidence that teachers evaluate the performance
of girls more favourably than the boys, which means that they cannot
be expected to reliably evaluate the behaviour of girls
and boys, unless they can be proved to be reliable in that regard.
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Gibb, Fergusson et al. (2008) find as follows: "At coeducational
schools, there was a statistically significant gap favouring females,
while at single-sex schools there was a non-significant gap favouring
males. This pattern was apparent for educational achievement both
at high school and in tertiary education. These results indicate
that single-sex schooling may mitigate male disadvantages in educational
achievement" (op cit, abstract)
As is well known, female
teachers now outnumber male teachers in the school system. I think
it is also obvious (although I do not have any data on this) that
there are proportionately more male teachers in single-sex boys' schools
than there are in coeducational schools.
Based on the above information, it is reasonable to conclude that:
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Female teachers are biased against boys
and rate their achievement and behaviour as worse than that of
girls for that reason.
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This anti-male bias is exacerbated by Feminism,
which is a philosophy that demonises males and makes females into
automatic victims.
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This causes boys to perform worse than girls
in the education system.
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Boys perform better in single-sex schools
than in coeducational schools because single-sex boys' schools have
fewer anti-male teachers in them.
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In due course, I received the following reply
from the Minister of Education's office:
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Subject: RE: Female Teachers Oppress Male Students
From: Otene Wharerau <Otene.Wharerau2@parliament.govt.nz>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 23:12:36 +0000
To:"'peter@zohrab.name'" <peter@zohrab.name>
Tena koe Peter
On behalf of Hon Nikki Kaye, Minister of Education I acknowledge your
email.
Your comments have been noted.
The matter you have raised falls within the portfolio responsibilities
of the Hon Paul Goldsmith, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and
Employment. Therefore your email has been transferred to Minister Goldsmith's
office for consideration.
Meitaki ma’ata
Otene Wharerau| Acting Private Secretary | Office of the Hon Nikki
Kaye
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I then replied to the Minister of Education as follows:
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Dear Nikki Kaye,
Thank you for your reply.
My email of 2nd August 2017 focussed on the influence of the predominantly
female workforce in schools on the performance of boys in schools. Therefore
I fail to see why it falls within the portfolio responsibilities of
the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment.
Could you please either explain why it falls within his portfolio
responsibilities or provide a response yourself to the issues which
my email raised?
Yours sincerely,
Peter Zohrab
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In due course, I received the following reply:
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I replied as follows:
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Dear Nikki Kaye,
Thank you for your letter dated 11 Sep 2017. It
was good to learn about the Education Ministry's Success
For Boys website, which was news to me. I suppose we have former
Minister Hekia
Parata to thank for that website, since you have not been Minister
for long. I don't know if it has received enough publicity, which is
presumably the fault of the Feminist media,
as usual.
However, you, as a female, have exhibited an unprofessional and even
hostile attitude to this issue, which is exactly how many female teachers
behave. The Feminist media are relentlessly pursuing a campaign to get
women employed in every nook and cranny of society (except the dirty
and dangerous ones), yet the behaviour of female teachers, females in
the media and female politicians shows that "empowering" women
just allows them to oppress males more effectively.
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Then, in your substantive reply, you simply
ignored the substantive research which I had
cited. Since your Government includes a Minister for Women,
but no Minister for Men, your Government obviously subscibes to
the religious beliefs that women are always and inevitably oppressed
and that men are never and inevitably not oppressed, so that it
makes you angry and confused to be presented with evidence to the
contrary.
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Under the Official Information Act, could you please furnish
me with the evidence which supports your statement that "Evidence
tells us that the most important factor in lifting student achievement
is the quality of the teaching rather than the gender of the teacher."
For you to simply ignore my cited evidence and make a vague handwave
in the direction of supposed research demonstrates your utter incompetence,
lack of good faith and determination to oppress men.
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You then go on to compare the proportion of males among New Zealand
teachers with the proportion of males among teachers in the OECD
as a whole. You do not explain why you pick on the OECD, rather
than the World as a whole, which would be a much more valid comparison.
The Public Service routinely compares New Zealand to other OECD
countries, because the Public Service has too many women in it,
with the result that it is largely incapable of logical thinking.
The reason that the OECD has roughly the same proportion of males
amongst its teachers as New Zealand has is obviously that the same
Feminist domination and propaganda are the order of the day in the
OECD as a whole as in New Zealand. The same Feminist propaganda
has driven women out of the home and into the workforce, the same
sexism has allowed women to go into teaching, rather than into dirty
and dangerous outdoor jobs such as forestry and mining and the same
sexist Feminist propaganda has targetted males as potential sex
abusers, whereas we now find that women
are doing less hidden sex abuse in their homes and more open
sex abuse in their teaching workplaces, where the sexist Feminists
can't ignore it any more!
I am glad that there are single-sex schools for boys to go to. The
self-centredness of New Zealand women is world-leading and you should
consider banning the PPTA from schools,
as it works hard to suppress males and "empower" females.
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In due course I received the following substantive reply
as an email:
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Dear Mr Zohrab
Thank you for your email of 20 September 2017, to the Minister of
Education, Hon Nikki Kaye requesting the following under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
Under the Official Information Act, could you please furnish me with
the evidence which supports your statement that "Evidence tells
us that the most important factor in lifting student achievement is
the quality of the teaching rather than the gender of the teacher."
As you are aware, this was transferred to the Ministry of Education
on 3 October 2017.
When developing policy and guidance material, the Ministry consults
a wide variety sources and evidence. This includes publicly available
material. The links to these are detailed below:
You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to review this decision. You
can do this by writing to info@ombudsman.parliament.nz or Office of
the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.
Thanks
Enquiries National Team | Ministry of Education | TW
33 Bowen St, Wellington
education.govt.nz | Follow us on Twitter:
@EducationGovtNZ
We get the job done Ka oti i a matou nga mahi
We are respectful, we listen, we learn He ropu manaaki, he ropu whakarongo,
he ropu ako matou
We back ourselves and others to win Ka manawanui ki a matou, me etahi
ake kia wikitoria
We work together for maximum impact Ka mahi ngatahi mo te tukinga nui
tonu
Great results are our bottom line Ko nga huanga tino pai a matou whainga
mutunga
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I then wrote to the Ombudsman as follows:
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Dears sir/Madam,
Could you please review and investigate the forwarded reply (below)
to my Official Information Request to the Minister of Education:
'Under the Official Information Act, could you please
furnish me with
the evidence which supports your statement that "Evidence tells
us that
the most important factor in lifting student achievement is the quality
of the teaching rather than the gender of the teacher."'?
The Ministry has just thrown a bunch of websites at me, instead of
actually complying with the request.
Please note that I had furnished the Minister with a research-based
argument to the effect that the gender of the teacher did in fact have
an effect on student achievement see http://blackribboncampaign.altervista.org/femteac2.html#1stletter
. The Minister or Ministry were called upon to counter that specific
evidence. If they are unable to, they should admit it.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Zohrab
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: In response to your OIA 1087250
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:46:29 +0000
From: Enquiries National <enquiries.national@education.govt.nz>
To: Peter@Zohrab.name <Peter@Zohrab.name>
Dear Mr Zohrab
Thank you for your email of 20 September 2017, to the Minister of
Education, Hon Nikki Kaye requesting the following under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
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/Under the Official Information Act, could you please furnish me with
the evidence which supports your statement that "Evidence tells
us that
the most important factor in lifting student achievement is the quality
of the teaching rather than the gender of the teacher."/
As you are aware, this was transferred to the Ministry of Education
on 3
October 2017.
When developing policy and guidance material, the Ministry consults
a
wide variety sources and evidence. This includes publicly available
material. The links to these are detailed below:
http://www.evidencebasedteaching.org.au/hattie-his-high-impact-strategies/
https://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effect-sizes-learning-achievement/
http://www.educationalleaders.govt.nz/Pedagogy-and-assessment/Building-effective-learning-environments/Teachers-Make-a-Difference-What-is-the-Research-Evidence
http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/attractingdevelopingandretainingeffectiveteachers-homepage.htm
https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/series/2515/5959
http://desgriffin.com/education-backgrnd/john-hattie/
You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to review this decision. You
can
do this by writing to info@ombudsman.parliament.nz
<mailto:info@ombudsman.parliament.nz> or Office of the Ombudsman,
PO Box
10152, Wellington 6143.
Thanks
*Enquiries National Team | Ministry of Education | TW
*33 Bowen St, Wellington
*education.govt.nz <http://www.education.govt.nz/> | Follow
us on
Twitter: @EducationGovtNZ <https://twitter.com/mineducationnz>*
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*We get the job done*/Ka oti i a matou nga mahi/
*We are respectful, we listen, we learn*/He ropu manaaki, he ropu
whakarongo, he ropu ako matou/
*We back ourselves and others to win*/Ka manawanui ki a matou, me etahi
ake kia wikitoria/
*We work together for maximum impact*/Ka mahi ngatahi mo te tukinga
nui tonu
/*Great results are our bottom line*/Ko nga huanga tino pai a matou
whainga mutunga
/Ministry of Education logo <http://www.education.govt.nz/>**
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In due course, I received the following letter from
the Ombudsman's Office:
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Not long afterwards, I received the following letter
from the Ministry of Education:
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