When I was a teacher, the accepted orthodoxy was that boys and girls are exactly the same, and they should be taught in exactly the same way.
It was also accepted that you teach kids to read by making them learn whole words, instead of old-fashioned letter sounds.
Every study showed that phonics was hands-down the best way to teach reading, and that single sex schools always did better than mixed schools. But that was ignored.
Now the government is forcing schools to teach phonics, and recommending that girls and boys should be taught differently, if not seperately.
And of course, the same people who ruthlessly imposed the old orthodoxy are now imposing the new one.
I can only imagine how weary Bob feels.
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