girls (& women too, of course) *are* discriminated against
and of course, like all people of good will, i’m in favor
of trying to change this. so don’t get me wrong.

but look at “myth 5″.
the “reality”, on this model,
is that girls who don’t make A’s
quit more readily than boys.
if this is true, i suppose it’s a problem.
but blaming “the mentality of needing
to ‘weed out’ ” can hardly lead to any solution.
on this model, we’d have to give up all thought
of rating student performance at all.
disguising such an attack on the whole teaching profession
by soaking it in ostensibly feminist principles just makes it
more contemptable.

of course, the most telling passage is at the end,
where “mathematics” has somehow morphed into
“mathematics education” (and “research based”
presumably has its usual meaning of “ed school party line”).

already too much attention paid to this;
thanks for the space to vent.

Isaac Asimov said “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

And there is truth in that – our teachers can’t do the learning for us, they can only provide good conditions for it to occur.