What a scary world we live in where women are engineers, doctors, astronauts, etc (just kidding). What is terrifying, however, is that a private school teacher in London thinks women are just learning too much these days.
Blanche Girouard, a religious education teacher at the St. Paul's Girls' School, has received backlash over her article in The Oldie Magazine, where she applauded an era when "everything seemed to be geared towards marriage" instead of girls receiving a higher education. The heading of her article is "Not so long ago parents didn't bother to educate their daughters - who had much more fun as a result."
And while Girouard makes an argument that today's education system focuses too much on exam results, "It's time we backed off and gave today's girls the time and space to work out what they actually want." There is still something unsettling about a teacher (who teaches girls!) that believes young women are "cramming their heads full of facts."
Although Girouard points out that it was "heinous" of parents to limit their daughter's futures in the past, she romanticizes that generation by saying, "Aspects of that era are enviable." Parents of the daughters Girouard teaches are speaking out against her magazine article calling her "old fashioned."
According to the Daily News a mother, who wished to remain anonymous said, "I don't worry about my daughter having too much pressure in a school situation. My girl loves being in that environment."
