Abolish sexist streaming

Stuff reports:

Now, teachers’ unions are joining forces to call for streaming in schools to be abolished. …

Webber cited evidence which showed “how educationally harmful [streaming] is for male students”. …

Albany Senior High School English teacher Philippa Wintle has worked in education for 15 years, and said any system where male students were at the bottom was “by design, inherently sexist”. …

“Any system where students who predominantly boys are over-represented in negative statistics has got to be a system that by design favours non-male students.”“Any system where students who predominantly are boys are over-represented in negative statistics has got to be a system that by design favours non-male students.” …

“It is really damaging because you have the underlying unconscious bias with teacher perceptions so more boys end up in the bottom classes,” Prendergast said. …

“This contributes to inequitable outcomes, especially for male learners who are disproportionally placed in lower streams.”

The appalling education outcomes for boys at school can no longer be accepted, so it is right to stop streaming because so few boys make the top streams.