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by draugadrotten
2504 days ago
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> Making some people smarter doesn’t require making others dumber. On the other hand, it doesn't have to be a requirement to happen. Making some people smarter can actually have a negative effect on the smarter ones. This can be illustrated with schools, where it benefits the troublemakers to be placed in a group with calm children, but it is on the expense of the calm children who will now be disrupted in their studying.
In the scandinavian countries, this is often done to children. Troublemakers, most often boys, are placed together with groups of calm children, often girls. This is such a common practice that there is an expression for such girls - pillow girls, "kuddflickor". https://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=auto&tl=en&u=... That said, isn't the Chetty proposal (moving from low-opportunity location to higer-opportunity location) basically why there are millions of migrants in Europe right now. |
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Girls are generally expected to be better behaved. This can be extremely suffocating and unhealthy.
If they are exposed to "troublemaker" boys and learn to have a little back bone and stand up for themselves (to possibly oppressive adults), it's still less socially acceptable for a girl than for a boy. So then she blames the "troublemaker" boy to cover for herself because he will get in less trouble than her and that's what the adults find plausible anyway.
It's entirely possible that even if she tried to accept the blame, the adults would interpret that as her trying to be kind to him and cover for him.