{"id":13128,"date":"2017-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/school-teachers-have-been-told-not-to-call-female-students-girls\/"},"modified":"2017-11-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T00:00:00","slug":"school-teachers-have-been-told-not-to-call-female-students-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/school-teachers-have-been-told-not-to-call-female-students-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"School Teachers Have Been Told Not To Call Female Students \u2018Girls\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Teachers in the UK have been told not to refer to female students as girls, as it will constantly remind them \u201cof their gender\u201d.<\/h3>\n<p>A former mental health chief made the comments at a girls\u2019 school conference, but said the same gender-neutral language should also be used with boys.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/school-girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/2017\/11\/21\/do-not-refer-female-pupils-girls-ladies-reminds-gender-head\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a>, Natasha Devon said at the conference:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI don\u2019t think it is useful to be constantly reminded of your gender all the time and all the stereotypes that go with it.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI think actually in some ways boys are more constrained by the expectation of their gender.<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;And whilst that is being challenged and changed I don\u2019t think it\u2019s helpful to keep saying \u2018girls, girls, girls, boys, boys, boys\u2019, because there is so much implication that potentially goes with that.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Britain is losing its mind. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xjy4ePliIX\">pic.twitter.com\/xjy4ePliIX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersmorgan\/status\/933217116978679808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers in the UK have been told not to refer to female students as girls, as it will constantly remind them \u201cof their gender\u201d. A former mental health chief made the comments at a girls\u2019 school conference, but said the same gender-neutral language should also be used with boys. 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