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The next reason that boys' cultures are out of sync with school cultures:
第二個原因是男孩文化與學校文化相脫節：
there are fewer male teachers.
有很少的男性教師。
Anybody who's over 15 doesn't know what this means,
任何超過15歲的人對此不了解，
because in the last 10 years,
因為在過去10年里，
the number of elementary school classroom teachers has been cut in half.
男性在小學教師課堂里的數量已經被減半。
We went from 14 percent to seven percent.
男性比重從14%降到7%。
That means that 93 percent of the teachers
這意味著93%的老師
that our young men get in elementary classrooms are women.
在年輕男孩上的小學課堂里是女老師。
Now what's the problem with this?
那么這又有什么問題呢？
Women are great. Yep, absolutely.
女老師很棒。是的，的確。
But male role models for boys that say it's all right to be smart --
但是男性角色模范對于男孩來說，它可以讓男孩變聰明。
they've got dads, they've got pastors,
男孩有父親，有牧師，
they've got Cub Scout leaders,
和童子軍導師，
but ultimately, six hours a day, five days a week they're spending in a classroom,
但歸根結底，每天6小時，每周五天，男孩都在課堂上度過。
and most of those classrooms are not places where men exist.
多數那些課程不適合男人。
And so they say, I guess this really isn't a place for boys.
如此，我猜這課堂也不太適合男孩去上。
This is a place for girls.
這課堂適合女孩上。
And I'm not very good at this,
我卻不擅長，
so I guess I'd better go play video games or get into sports, or something like that,
我覺得我最好去玩視頻游戲或者玩體育，或者類似的什么事，
because I obviously don't belong here.
因為我很明顯與學校文化格格不入。
Men don't belong here, that's pretty obvious.
學校文化也不包括男人，這是很明顯的。
So that may be a very direct way that we see it happen.
所以這可能是一種很直接的方式，讓我們看到正在發生的事實。
But less directly, the lack of male presence in the culture --
但不那么直接地，是在學校文化中缺少男性--
you've got a teachers' lounge,
你要是待在教師休息室，
and they're having a conversation about Joey and Johnny who beat each other up on the playground.
老師們正談論在操場打起架來的喬伊和約翰。
"What are we going to do with these boys?"
“我們要拿這些男孩怎么辦？”
The answer to that question changes depending on who's sitting around that table.
問題的答案取決于誰當時在場。
Are there men around that table?
有任何男性在場嗎？
Are there moms who've raised boys around that table?
這些孩子的母親在場嗎？
You'll see, the conversation changes depending upon who's sitting around the table.
大家可以看出，這談論會隨誰當時在場而改變。
