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http://www.macleans.ca/homepage/magazine...85_70985&page=1
saw this stunning article in macleans, a GREAT news journal in Canada saying that since boys develop a bit later then girls, they should be held back a year. and allow to be more energetic. the picture ont he article was even more weird, it had 2 9 year olds in vests with guns pinting towards eachotehr, and they made them side by side so it looke dlike it was at eachotehrs heads.... anyways, a bit of a long winded article, but definatly worth something if you happen to be bored. i fall in that for sure, and it talks about the empathy that we have with school and not caringa bout grades. i never knew a guy that cared.
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How to fix boys
Let them start school later and, yes, let them fight and play with toy guns.
KATE FILLION | January 9, 2008 |
Macleans.ca: Playtime's over | Not everyone believes boys are being let down by joyless, uncreative kindergartens. Some think girls are, too.
A dozen years ago, the hue and cry was about girls: girls were "silenced" at school, girls were tragic mini-Ophelias, in need of reviving. As it turned out, whatever other problems girls had, being "silenced" and "disadvantaged at school" were decidedly not among them. In fact, on most academic measures, girls outperform boys.
Hence, the new buzz: there's a crisis among boys. Like many proponents of this viewpoint, Leonard Sax argues that boys are less resilient and more prone to school failure than ever before. Sax, a family physician and research psychologist in Maryland, believes a combination of social and biological factors has created a toxic environment for boys. The result, he argues in Boys Adrift, is a generation of slackers and underachievers, so lacking in motivation that they barely notice, much less care about, their own failure to launch. Sax, who has been visiting schools in Ontario this week to speak to parents and faculty about gender differences in learning, spoke to Maclean's about the trouble with boys.
Q: So how do we know for sure there really is a problem with boys?
A: You can certainly go to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and find people who will vigorously contest the assertion that there's any problem at all with boys. But there are fewer boys who care about school at all, and a smaller proportion of men going on to postgraduate work. A helpful question to ask is, "What hard data do we have?" Almost exactly 50 per cent of applicants to Canadian medical schools are women, but nationally, 58 per cent of students actually attending medical school are women. Why is that? Well, because Canadian medical schools generally admit people without regard to gender, which is not the case in the U.S., and women have better grades and test scores at university than the men have, so they're better qualified. Likewise, about 60 per cent of undergraduates are women. This is a stunning reversal, according not to me but to a Statistics Canada report published in September.
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14-04-2008 04:01 |
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where's Equipped anyway ?
still in cambodja ?
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14-04-2008 11:52 |
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Originally posted by Halph-Price
http://www.macleans.ca/homepage/magazine...85_70985&page=1
saw this stunning article in macleans, a GREAT news journal in Canada saying that since boys develop a bit later then girls, they should be held back a year. and allow to be more energetic. the picture ont he article was even more weird, it had 2 9 year olds in vests with guns pinting towards eachotehr, and they made them side by side so it looke dlike it was at eachotehrs heads.... anyways, a bit of a long winded article, but definatly worth something if you happen to be bored. i fall in that for sure, and it talks about the empathy that we have with school and not caringa bout grades. i never knew a guy that cared.
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How to fix boys
Let them start school later and, yes, let them fight and play with toy guns.
KATE FILLION | January 9, 2008 |
Macleans.ca: Playtime's over | Not everyone believes boys are being let down by joyless, uncreative kindergartens. Some think girls are, too.
A dozen years ago, the hue and cry was about girls: girls were "silenced" at school, girls were tragic mini-Ophelias, in need of reviving. As it turned out, whatever other problems girls had, being "silenced" and "disadvantaged at school" were decidedly not among them. In fact, on most academic measures, girls outperform boys.
Hence, the new buzz: there's a crisis among boys. Like many proponents of this viewpoint, Leonard Sax argues that boys are less resilient and more prone to school failure than ever before. Sax, a family physician and research psychologist in Maryland, believes a combination of social and biological factors has created a toxic environment for boys. The result, he argues in Boys Adrift, is a generation of slackers and underachievers, so lacking in motivation that they barely notice, much less care about, their own failure to launch. Sax, who has been visiting schools in Ontario this week to speak to parents and faculty about gender differences in learning, spoke to Maclean's about the trouble with boys.
Q: So how do we know for sure there really is a problem with boys?
A: You can certainly go to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and find people who will vigorously contest the assertion that there's any problem at all with boys. But there are fewer boys who care about school at all, and a smaller proportion of men going on to postgraduate work. A helpful question to ask is, "What hard data do we have?" Almost exactly 50 per cent of applicants to Canadian medical schools are women, but nationally, 58 per cent of students actually attending medical school are women. Why is that? Well, because Canadian medical schools generally admit people without regard to gender, which is not the case in the U.S., and women have better grades and test scores at university than the men have, so they're better qualified. Likewise, about 60 per cent of undergraduates are women. This is a stunning reversal, according not to me but to a Statistics Canada report published in September.
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Threaten them with castration if they don't behave. That will teach 'em 
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Halph-Price
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so then teh kill their father and fuck their mother. so say Sigmund Freud .
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16-04-2008 08:03 |
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hahah..
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