a man's voice

I have a feeling that this voice can, now, only be heard in sports in our local broadcast media. Maybe that's the reason our little boys are drawn to Japanese anime. Maybe that's the only male voice they hear :)

I hope I am wrong in saying that because if that is true, and Daddy is an OFW, the development path of a boy to becoming a well adjusted and a contributing man will be very difficult and even more confusing.

I also do not know how many male teachers a boy meets during his elementary days to high school. Do we still have male math or history teachers in elementary? Or all male teachers lumped in physical education nowadays?

Do not get me wrong. I am not against female teachers. There are things a boy can learn from their feminine teachers. I am a first-hand witness to that. I love and respect all my female teachers. But if all the lessons he learns come only from a feminine voice, something is amiss.

If teachers are supposedly second parents. And parents, in its basic form, is a man and woman, and the male voice is but a whisper at the back of the classroom today, then we have a very well-behaved dilemma in our hands. So well-behaved we might not even notice it :) which makes it even more dangerous.

Statistics would tell us that the school's dropout rates are rising. But the dropout rates for boys are significantly higher than girls. Double digit significant. Why is this so?

I do not know :)

But I do have hunch. An intelligent guess :)

Maybe someone should compare the annual length of time our little boys spent interacting with their male teachers and compare it to the length of time our little boys spent interacting with their female teacher over the past 10 years and then further compare it with the annual drop rates of our boys from school over the past 10 years. Maybe that will confirm my fears :)

Generally, are our instructional methodologies geared towards the female brain that we exclude the needs of our boys?

How many pleaded for their academic status last term? Last school year? And what is the ratio of male to female?

If boys do not finish college, where will they go? Life on the streets? What kind of a father will they be? What kind of a husband will they be? What kind of a man will they be?

Wait! Did we, unwittingly, as academicians as a whole and as businessmen who run schools, just contribute to the rise of domestic violence? Or of violence itself?

"... why think like mere men."