Ik heb de aflevering bekeken. Wat fantastisch! The Simpsons zijn sowieso altijd geniaal.

Het begin waarin een parodie van The Lion King musical wordt opgevoerd is ook niet om te missen.

I read of a particularly disturbing example of this confusion between differing learning styles and differing content around two years ago, in an article about a Vancouver Island junior high school. The school had recently decided to experiment with sex-segregated English and math classes. [...]
The principal explained that boys were more adventurous, and so, the boys’ math class would be very “hands-on”: the teacher would present a new topic in limited detail, show and example or two, and then send the boys on their way to experiment with a variety of different homework problems that used the new concept in different ways. The girls, explained the principal, weren’t much for trying new things on their own, so they’d get to read about the new topic first, read dozens and examples, and then work on some homework problems that looked just like the dozens of examples they’d seen. This would build confidence, asserted the principal.

I wrote a letter to the editor, explaining math is hands-on, and that from the perspective of someone who’d taught math at the university level, the boys’ math class sounded like math, whereas the girls’ class sounded like math-lite.

En het is een actueel verhaal, ik herinner me in elk geval dat er op sommige scholen plannen waren om wiskunde (en misschien andere vakken ook) gescheiden te geven en inderdaad met verschillende inhoud!