What I want to be when I grow up.

[fragile-esteem]

I keep hearing this from teachers and others. I know what I wants to do, but they would all laugh. But here me out and tell me how effective this would be.

I want to open a small private school (proabably all girls as that's all I know about) But not just any school, a school for those who maybe aren't as confident as others, or maybe struggle a little with conventional school. Basically I want to create an environment where there is no people with high-self esteem because people like that don't need help. They are set for life in my opinion. They can do whatever they want, grow up, talk their way through uni and smarm their way up the career ladder. It's true, I know it is. Self - esteem is all that counts in this world.

But there are people like me that don't have any! But does anyone give a fuck? NO! and why's that? Because the teachers are all too busy with the kids being cheeky and total arseholes to stop for a minute and give you that little bit of confidence. SO my schools 14 point plan would be:

-no class should exceed 10 girls
-no class should be under 3 girls (unless requested by parents)
-pupils would get at least 5 minutes one to one in each lesson
-the school role would not exceed 50 girls
-the entire staff should know each girl by name
-each girl would be given a progress sheet each month
-parents would be able to arrange a meeting anytime
-only girls with low self esteem would be allowed in
-there would be at least 5 parents evenings a year
-each girl would have a mentor who they could call anytime of the day or night in confidence
-the aim would be to build up confidence levels and return them to normal schooling when completed
-lessons would be flexible, you can take some quiet time when you need it
-zero tolerance bulling policy
-the girls are the most important thing
-exams and tests would not exist in their current form

[Darthmat]

All girls is not good. No offense.

[akdonn]

fragile-esteem:

This sounds like a very noble plan and I think you should begin now getting the "teacher" orientation you need to become a certified teacher. That would give you an opportunity to study child psychology, brain development and educational theories.

If I was going to recommend a book for you to consider in your quest it would be: "All Grown Up and No Place to Go: Teenagers in Crisis" by David Elkind. It might be interesting for you, and it talks a lot about exactly the issues you have listed!

[fragile-esteem]

darthmat Wrote:All girls is not good. No offense.

do you watch gossip girl? ^.^

[Darthmat]

Nooo.. >_>

[Colonel Mustard]

[Coma Girl]

well, all girl environments are surely different, but then it sucks when you realise that you have no guy friends. It tends to be hard to talk to some guys aswell because you havent been around them anough to study their character traits and stuff.

It took me sometime to be able to do this, im all good now i think.

But yes, i think what youve suggested is a great plan, i think that if you put yourself up to it you will be able to make it happen, it surely would help a lot of girls out there.

[akdonn]

Girls brains are wired differently than boy's brains so they learn differently. Some students benefit from being in a learning environment that is gender-specific.

[Ahab]

Yes, it's not a case of inequality or even segregation perse, but akdonn is correct in his simple analysis: boys are different from girls. Girls acquire multiple fields in much different manners from boys. The stereotype is that boys understand things in a more simplistic or primitive manner, but such is not nessecarily the case; there are nonetheless still fundamental differences which slightly resemble such. What has been understood is girls are much more critical of themselves whereas boys aren't nessecarily as critical, a higher sense of confidence which comes with time, teaching, and testosterone.

[happy fool called Nigel]

Ahab Wrote:Yes, it's not a case of inequality or even segregation perse, but akdonn is correct in his simple analysis: boys are different from girls. Girls acquire multiple fields in much different manners from boys. The stereotype is that boys understand things in a more simplistic or primitive manner, but such is not nessecarily the case; there are nonetheless still fundamental differences which slightly resemble such. What has been understood is girls are much more critical of themselves whereas boys aren't nessecarily as critical, a higher sense of confidence which comes with time, teaching, and testosterone.

Very true.

If you want to have an all girls school, go ahead, but you could do some sort of experiment with gender integration.



What about all of the boys with low self esteem?


We are out there.

[Avenger]

this is a very good idea and when they ask you what you want to do tell them and if they down you say i don't care about what you think about my plan i'm going to do it no matter you're not going to bring me down and neither is anyone else

[John Tuttle]

boys like hands-on stuff. jeremy clarkson, who is british, responded to the news that britians' boys, like americas, are lagging behind. he says it is to do with the lack of fun science expiriments, like blowing stuff up. i would go to a private school just to blow stuff up
anyways, the reason why boys are doing badly is because lots of schools, or at least ares, is putting more attention on reading and english, which girls are traditionly better at, than math or science. also, in my school, pretty much 95% of women teachers are sexist against boys. my accelerated math teacher last year gave me and my friends f's on this stupid project because we didn't "show enough work", even though we got the right answer. meanwhile, this girl who got the wrong answer and showed less work got a b. even that girl, who is nice, admits the teacher was sexist. sorry for the mega-rathole

[annie]

That sounds an absolutely amazing plan!
Would sure have a lot of benefits for girls out there.
You can do it if you try hard enough.

My only question is..
If they are living in such a sheltered environment, how would you prepare them for the real world?

[SoulRiser]

Quote:boys like hands-on stuff. jeremy clarkson, who is british, responded to the news that britians' boys, like americas, are lagging behind. he says it is to do with the lack of fun science expiriments, like blowing stuff up. i would go to a private school just to blow stuff up

So would I. I also like hands-on stuff.

So it'd kinda suck for me if I had to go to an all-girls school. I get along better with guys.

[Doc Johnson]

Also, with regard to sex (biological) and gender (socially constructed), and being a boy or a girl, not every person fits neatly into one or the the other category. Some people are born gender indeterminate either physically or otherwise. Ask a trans person about it sometime. How you would be classified and how you would classify yourself may vary wildly. Then there are queer students of various types. The point is that there are a lot of people out there with esteem problems who may not fit neatly into these two categories. It may even be that their esteem has a lot to do what that very central fact of their lives. Something to think about.

[thewake]

Lol, people are either male, female, or have a very weird mutation.
Either that or have had a sex change, I would still classify them as their original sex though.

Also, fragile-esteem, that seems to be a good idea. Now all you have to do is figure out how to get the money, get some teaching experience, and get the necessary things together.
I really don't think a 50 person limit is a very good idea though, of course it may turn out not many more people will be in the school though.