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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If it makes you feel better – I am at Camberwell High and we have a 70% boy to 30% girl ratio in the school
<i>at all.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I had 5 female students
<b><i><u>total</u></i></b> in Year 9 and above this year across 9 elective subjects (3 Year 9 Materials, 2 year 9 systems, 2 year 10 systems, 1 year 10 Materials, 1 VCE Product Design and tech).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Making progress, but getting girls in is proving very difficult. They perceive it as a “boy subject”, and unfortunately when the core 8’s are seeing Year 9
classes running with 20 boys and 2 girls, it’s hard to convince them otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">David.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> destech-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:destech-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>paula connolly<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 15 September 2013 6:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Design and Technology Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Design and Technology] (no subject)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I am trying to gather some information on girls in Design and Technology. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">At present at Strathmore, we are struggling to get more than 20-30% girls in our classes, particularly from year 9 up. We have revamped our programme many times. We have no metal room but
do work with a range of materials in the spaces available. The staff are predominately women but we are limited in the number of classes we can run by the workshop space available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The school has about 5% more boys than girls and textiles classes are run as a separate material from year 9.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I would love to know what percentage other schools have and what you credit it to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Paula<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Paula Connolly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Product Design nd Technology Faculty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Strathmore Secondary College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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