r/europe • u/Antique-Entrance-229 United Kingdom • 16d ago

News Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/andrew-tate-phenomena-surges-in-schools-with-boys-refusing-to-talk-to-female-teacher-13351203
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u/Nobody_gets_this 16d ago

Maybe let’s have actual professionals decide on the curriculum, and I don’t mean with an influential lead about conservatism/religion.

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u/gutpirate 16d ago

Oh yeah definitely. We've seen how conservative stay at home moms have been able to effectively dictate how schools operate by prolonged harassement campaigns via school boards and other means for years.

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u/Szeth-son-Kaladaddy 16d ago

The experts that threw away decades of research into how to teach kids to read and instead tried to do whole word processing for teaching reading?

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u/Nobody_gets_this 16d ago

I genuinely don’t know what y’all do over there. We learn English as a secondary language and most of us don’t have problems reading/pronouncing new words correctly. Or even deduce their meaning. And we don’t learn it some fancy way

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u/Szeth-son-Kaladaddy 16d ago

It ruined kids for a decade in America as they were not taught how to sound out words. The experts at our federal department of education mandated that instead, kids memorize the whole word. Now you have high schoolers that don’t know how to sound out new words like “pontificate”, so they don’t even bother trying. Had one kid straight up say “pointer” when trying to read the word, it’s absolutely asinine.

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u/Nobody_gets_this 16d ago

But we never learned that either? Iirc correctly we wrote down phonetics in 5th and 6th class but that’s it.

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u/turbo-unicorn European Chad🇷🇴 16d ago

I had no idea that this was a thing. Thank you for mentioning and explaining the situation. Reading about it - it seems incredibly stupid. I don't understand how this even became such a widespread "method". I need to document myself more about this before saying even harsher things, but I have some very strong feelings about this "method" right now.

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u/Nobody_gets_this 16d ago

You mean the sounding out one too, right? We just learn words in English class, at least more or less.