[sdiy] Learning electronics now - was Real cause of DIY death

[jbv]

Robin Whittle a *crit :

> limor wrote:
>
> > "anti-masculine"? ok, you're going to have to justify that one...
>
> Here in Australia, primary school teaching has become almost a no-go
> zone for men.  The shortage of male primary school teachers is so acute
> that a special government bounty was offered here in Victoria - but it
> didn't attract many men.
>

>  I - and other people - think a
> major reason is alarm over child sex-abuse, and child sex abusers are
> usually male.

sorry, but this is wrong. Here in Western Europe (but I don't see
why things should be radically different in Australia), child sex
abusers are equally male or female, the only difference being in
the media coverage (female child abusers seems to be still a
politically uncorrect topic, and media are still reluctant to cover it).
Here in France, there's presently a huge trial about child abuse and
child prostitution involving dozens of adults (67 AFAIR) and half
of them are women, including the mothers of the abused children...


> (snip)
>
> Consequently children are spending kindergarten and the first 6 or more
> years of school being taught almost exclusively by women.  Boys are less
> likely to want to sit still and do book learning on gentle and
> conceptual things than girls - so they are more frustrated with school
> than they might be in a system which involved men and catered to the
> needs and desires of boisterous and adventurous boys.

I'm afraid this is worse than cheap psychology : I entered school when
I was 2.5 years old and AFAIR all my teachers until 9 were women, and
that didn't hinder me from starting SDIY circa 17, even if I had no
background in electronics, and to become a coder even if my math level
in high school was very low (and all college teachers used to repeat that
only math genius could find a job as computer programer)...
There are plenty of wrong and cheap clichés floating around these days,
like children adopted by homosexual couples to have more risks of
becoming neurotic when growing adults...

Sorry, this is OT, but I think I ought to comment...

best,
JB