Other peoples' submissions

Many people and groups have written in to express their opinions. The submissions are listed below as well as on the government website.

I have written summaries for some of the submissions.

If you're one of the submission writers and feel you've been misrepresented, please email me a summary in your own words, (50 words or less).

URL	Name	Situation	Summary
1	Mr Michael Adams	Male Teacher	We should think of some good things to say about men. Increase time boys spend with men.
2	Mr David Butler	Dad	My wife divorced me and took our 5 year old son. She is a negligent mother and turning the boy into a slob. I can't do much to help because Family Court rules say I don't need to see the kid more than 6 days a month.
3	Ms Wilma Vallis	Female Teacher and Parent	High school's "sit down and swallow information" mentality is boring for boys. Men have more high-status jobs than women so really we should be having an enquiry into that.
4	Ms Robyn MacDonald	Female Teacher Primary	Let me help, give me a job.
5	Mr Jerry Tyrell	Dad, employer, architect	Tell every kid that they're special. Develop self-worth through participation in activities. Ask Bettina Arndt what should be done.
6	Associate Professor David Plummer
7	Ms Andrea Heath	Mum	My son did poorly at a government school where they assumed boys may learn more slowly. We transferred him to a private school where he's done better.
8	Ms Pam Holms	Mum	More men teachers, especially in primary schools.
9	Mr David Hutchison	Dad	More men in primary schools and pre-schools. Stop encouraging girls' achievement at the expense of boys.
10	Ms Angela Pattison	School Teacher and Mum	More men school teachers. Train boys to communicate so they can tell us what's troubling them. Train boys in life skills so they won't feel so useless.
11	Mr David Ryan	Dad	Don't label kids as smart or otherwise because it sticks.
12	Ms Melanie Akhurst
13	Ms Susanna Christie	Female Teacher Primary	Current teaching methods seem to disadvantage boys. I also use other methods which disadantage girls and so strikes a balance.
14	Mrs Jean Gelman Taylor	Mum, academic.	Our boy was in a government school where the teachers took little interest in his work, partly because he was a boy. We now pay $8,000 a year to send him to private school - there's been a big improvement. Promote high standards equally for boys and girls.
15	Mr Graeme Wood	Dad	Educate boys to feel good about themselves. Stop encouraging girls' achievement at the expense of boys. Encourage girls to look favourably upon boys.
16	Mrs Susan Stewart	Mum	More men school teachers.
17	Ms Carolyn van Langenberg		Boys see no point in (further) education.
18	Institute of Men's Studies	Special interest group	Females have more rights today than males - redress that imbalance. Males/females are different, so sometimes boys should be given boys' stuff to do and girls given girls' stuff.
19	Mr John Hocknull	Sports coach	Create militarised TAFE colleges
20	Mr Glen Marchant	Male Teacher Secondary	More men teachers. Give boys some boys' stuff to read.
21	Endeavour Forum
21.1	Endeavour Forum
21.2	Endeavour Forum
21.3	Endeavour Forum
22	Mr Ed Lewis
23	Mackay West State Primary School
24	Scouts Australia		Give government accreditation to scouting awards.
25	Brother Barry Lamb
26	Ms Jennifer Buckingham
27	Reading Recovery Centre
28	Dr GC Lowenthal AM
29	Ms Louisa Legg
30	Ms Jude Foster
31	Mr Ron Gough
32	Ms Christine Crump
33	Mr Tony Butz
34	Major General WB Digger James AC MBE MC
34.1	Mrs Barbara James
35	Mr Andrew Humphreys
35.1	Mr Andrew Humphreys
36	Name withheld from publication	A duffer	The Simpsons TV show has caused this whole mess.
37	Ms Gwenda Stanbridge
38	Mr Malcolm Mayne
39	Mr David Raj
40	J. Highfield
41	Mr John Richardson
42	Ms Vivianne Byrnes	Mum and teacher	Here's a dozen tips on how to educate boys.
43	Mr Bill Campbell
44	WD Toppin
45	Mr Ken Bushnell
46	Mr Walter Pless
47	Mr John Mula
48	Mr Chris Laming
49	Public Policy Assessment Society
50	The Western Australian Council of State School Organisations
51	Mr Philip Altmann
52	New South Wales Secondary Principals' Council
53	Mr Russ Trudeau
54	Queensland Catholic Education Commission
55	South Australian Association of State School Organisations
56	Trinity Grammar School	Male private school Principal	If you ran high schools properly like we do our private school you wouldn't have this problem.
57	Asquith Boys High School	Male boys' high school Principal	Being a single-sex school makes it easy for us to focus on boys' requirments.
58	Confidential
58.1	Ms Denise Parkes
59	Mr Ian Carragher
60	International Boys' Schools Coalition
61	Inspector John Thextor
62	West Education Centre (pdf 15KB)
62.1	West Education Centre (pdf 67KB)
63	Machismo Project (pdf 10KB)
63.1	Confidential
64	Mr Peter Dicker (pdf 33KB)
65	Hurstville Boys' High School (pdf 73KB)
66	Professor Lyn Yates and the Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney (pdf 22KB)
67	Confidential
68	Name withheld from publication (pdf 34KB)
69	Federation of Parents and Friends Associations of Catholic Schools QLD (pdf 9KB)
70	Fremantle Education Centre (pdf 66KB)
71	Ms Pauline Marlborough (pdf 6KB)
72	Ms Linda Farrington (pdf 20KB)
73	Dr RL Bruce (pdf 18KB)
74	Elimbah State School (pdf 70KB)
75	Boys in Focus Consultants (pdf 21KB)
76	Mr and Mrs Helen and Graham Davies (pdf 9KB)
77	Mr Donn Trent and Ms Jennifer Cooper (pdf 56KB)
78	St Marys College, Toowoomba (pdf 20KB)
79	Mr Patrick Toohey (pdf 6KB)
80	Mr Andrew Mullins (pdf 107KB)
81	Australian Secondary Principals' Association (pdf 37KB)
82	Victorian Association of State Secondary Principals' (pdf 33KB)	Special interest group	There isn't a really big problem what are people complaining about? Spend more money for extra training and research.
83	Ms Gail Petherick (pdf 35KB)
84	Dr Martin Mills and Dr Bob Lingard (pdf 15KB)
85	Mr Peter Little and Mr Scot Gardner (pdf 19KB)
86	Associate Professor Greg Heath and staff at RMIT University (pdf 81KB)
87	Board for Lutheran Schools (pdf 16KB)
88	Barker College (pdf 19KB)
89	Mr Neil Philbrook, Mr Mark DePledge and Mr Mark Collyer (pdf 5KB)
90	Ms Deborah Mulligan (pdf 11KB)
91	Mr Craig Date (pdf 10KB)
92	Ms Sue Anderson, Ms Helen Beitz and Ms Judy Bryant (pdf 9KB)
93	Mr Angus Tulley (pdf 22KB)
94	Mr David McCumstie (pdf 63KB)
95	Blue Gum School (pdf 22KB)
96	St Brendan's College, Yeppoon (pdf 75KB)
97	The Scots College (pdf 4KB)
98	Ms Kerry Davies (pdf 24KB)
99	Mr Bob Selinger (pdf 7KB)
100	Mrs Frances Bradshaw (pdf 4KB)
101	Religious Education and Educational Services (pdf 14KB)
102	Rock Eisteddfod Challenge (pdf 216KB)
103	Canberra Grammar School  (pdf 45KB)
104	Mr John McFaul (pdf 5KB)
105	Barnardos Australia (pdf 7KB)
106	Mr Stephen McMullen (pdf 5KB)
107	Faculty of Education, Deakin University (pdf 37KB)
108	Association of Heads of Independent Schools in Australia (pdf 28KB)
108.1	Association of Heads of Independent Schools in Australia (pdf 67KB)
108.2	Association of Heads of Independent Schools in Australia (pdf 281KB)		Ideas on how to help older people become teachers.
109	Mr Peter West (pdf 38KB)
110	Mr Ray McAlister (pdf 6KB)
111	Drs Ken and Katherine Rowe (pdf 378KB)
112	Christian Brothers Queensland (pdf 16KB)
113	Mr Denis Foster (pdf 24KB)
114	Mr Colin Craig (pdf 25KB)
115	New Town High School (pdf 13KB)
116	National Catholic Education Commission (pdf 15KB)
117	Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (pdf 181KB)
118	Queensland Independent Education Union (pdf 32KB)
119	Australian Council of State School Organisations (pdf 37KB)
120	Ministry of the Premier and Cabinet, Western Australia  (pdf 52KB)
121	National Centre for Vocational Education Research (pdf 46KB)
121.1	National Centre for Vocational Education Research
122	Dr Lori Beckett (pdf 858KB)
123	Early Childhood Education Council of New South Wales (pdf 13KB)
124	Dr George Burkitt (pdf 4KB)
125	President of St Joseph's Primary School P&F Association (pdf 10KB)
126	Mr Greg Griffiths (pdf 4KB)
127	South Australian Independent Schools Board Inc (pdf 41KB)
128	NSW Federation of School Community Organisations (pdf 12KB)
129	Mr Roger Button (pdf 20KB)
130	Mr Peter Sidebottom MP (pdf 72KB)
131	Centacare (pdf 12KB)		Better teachers More money for families.
132	Mr and Mrs Ryan (pdf 29KB)
133	The Scots College, Glengarry (pdf 62KB)
134	Mr Alan Larcombe and staff of Penguin High School (pdf 8KB)
135	Catholic Secondary Principals Association of WA  (pdf 15KB)
136	Randwick Boys' High School (pdf 1,438KB)
137	Dr Lori Beckett et al. (pdf 618KB)
138	Mrs Roslyn Phillips (pdf 20KB)
139	Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Education (pdf 25KB)
140	Ms Sabine Beecher (pdf 19KB)
141	Mr Richard Eckersley (pdf 7KB)
142	St Nicholas' Primary School, Tamworth (pdf 8KB)
143	Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (pdf 11KB)		We disagree that boys are being picked on and they certainly shouldn't get special treatment.
144	Ms Anna Prosser (pdf 41KB)
145	Ms Kay Margetts (pdf 39KB)	Academic	Train teachers to be more more sensitive to individual student's needs and more aware of their own personal prejudices.
146	MW Training Consultants (pdf 44KB)
147	Tintern Schools (pdf 411KB)
148	NSW Teachers Federation (pdf 44KB)
149	Mr Gordon Wood (pdf 13KB)
150	Australian Education Union (pdf 107KB)
151	Mr John Coochey (pdf 11KB)
152	Early School Leavers Working Party (pdf 16KB)
153	Mr Rollo Browne (pdf 35KB)
154	South Australian Government (pdf 65KB)
155	Tasmanian Department of Education (pdf 46KB)
155.1	Tasmanian Department of Education
156	Federation of Parents and Citizens' Association of New South Wales (pdf 55KB)
157	Australian Hearing (pdf 5KB)
158	Independent Education Union (pdf 250KB)
158.1	Independent Education Union  (pdf 184KB)
159	Ms Evelyn Voshege (pdf 54KB)
160	Queensland Teachers' Union (pdf 710KB)
161	Confidential
162	Northern Territory Department of Education (pdf 35KB)
163	Mr Michael Petrie (pdf 10KB)
164	New South Wales Department of Education and Training (pdf 129KB)	Govt dept	Poor literacy is a lot more complicated than boys vs girls. Federal govt should lead the way (by spending money on research?)
165	Australian Association of Social Workers (pdf 95KB)		Australian men commit suicide in large numbers but we don't know why. There's are a lot of things that influences children in their development and we need to analyse all of them before we can say anything definite about whether men are being hard done by. We all need to work together. Employ more social workers in schools. Encourage men to be teachers. Fund more research. Schools should employ a man to be a male mentor for boys. More money for social workers to run big brother/sister programs. Ask TV stations to tone down violence and sexism.
166	Mr Richard Fletcher - The Men and Boys Program, Family Action Centre (pdf 89KB)
167	Mr Scott Thompson (pdf 9KB)
168	Education Queensland Boys' Education Research Group (pdf 105KB)
169	Mr Byron Harrison (pdf 336KB)	Independent expert	I and others have researched literacy problems and know how to improve reading skills. Teaching institutions do not want to change, bypassing them may be the only way forward.
170	Mr Chas Cook (pdf 112KB)
171	R Anderson (pdf 43KB)		Feminst agenda in schools favours girls over boys. Put boys and girls in separate classes
172	Mr Anderson Fernando (pdf 328KB)
173	NT Council of Government Schools Organistions (pdf 52KB)
174	Association of Women Educators (pdf 38KB)
175	Mr M G O'Dowd (pdf 513KB)
176	St Leonards College (pdf 59KB)
177	Mr G Truslove  (pdf 6KB)
178	Victorian Government  (pdf 149KB)	State govt	Give us money so that we can spend three years researching the problem. Give us money so that we can look at what happens to kids once they leave school. Give us money to help non-english speaking immigrants (many of whom are boys).
179	Australia Council (pdf 225KB)
180	Name withheld from publication  (pdf 1,736KB)
181	Flinders University (pdf 10KB)
182	Ms Elizabeth Clarke  (pdf 240KB)
183	Ms Hannah Eichler (pdf 48KB)
184	Mr John Bednall  (pdf 676KB)
185	Dr Peter Clements
186	Lone Fathers Association NT Inc		Men and boys are being picked on because there are too many women public servants and some of these women hate men.
186.1	Lone Fathers Association NT Inc		Here is evidence that males are being picked on.
187	Ms Maria Mansfield	Mother of 8 & Grandmother	Today males are undervalued. Let's create a list of what is uniquely wonderful about men.