By Stephen Maranga
Kisii education stakeholders are up in arms over the plight of the boy-child in the county.
Kisii County Education Chairman, Dr Henry Nyabuto Onderi raising concern on the matter urged parents, guardians, teachers and churches to assist the boy-child, saying the high drop-out rate of the boy-child was alarming.
Speaking to Education News Onderi said some parents were allowing boys to join the Boda Boda bikes business and to engage in other activities instead of learning.
Dr Nyabuto, who is also the director at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology Kisii Campus, urged parents to invest in the education of their children.
I did not wish to take up too much space here. I do have much to say on the male crisis along with a very important learning theory which explains this problem. I will put a very brief reply here, but i much more to offer all. The belief boys should be strong allows aggressive treatment from infancy so they will be tough. There is less verbal interaction support for fear of coddling. This creates high, maintained layers of average stress for boys (new thought will send to all). These layers remain in the mind taking away real mental energy from academics so they will have to work harder to receive the same mental reward. This treatment creates emotional distance of others. It creates lags in communication girls are given daily. The high stress creates activity for stress relief not genetics. This creates higher muscle tension which hurts handwriting motivation. The effect with false genetic models creates more failure and hopelessness. To make it tougher boys are given love honor feelings of self-worth only on condition of achievement. This was designed to keep Male esteem low and be willing to give their lives in war for love honor from society. Males not achieving are given ridicule and discipline to make them try harder. Support is not given for fear of coddling. Many boys falling behind turn their attention to sports and video games for small measures of love honor not received in school. The belief boys should be strong and false belief in genetics create denial of the harsh treatment which is creating the low academics low esteem and other problems for boys. This is not about more openness from boys; it is about society allowing aggressive treatment from infancy so boys feel much wariness toward parents teachers who freely use aggressive treatment for any sign of weakness. This is condoned by society. This problem is affecting all male children but the lower the socioeconomic bracket and time in lower areas the much more amplified the treatment given male children by parents/teachers.
There is a wrinkle to this. There are a “very few boys” given more stable, correct support from some families which will enable those boys to succeed in school. This enables those boys to do well -and receive love and honor from others, which they must continually do to continue to earn that love and honor. This then becomes a drug for those boys which drives them to continually achieve in different ways in school. However the vast majority of boys who do not receive that support will not do well in school and early on, go into other areas to generate love and honor such as sports, military, other.