And they become prime candidatres for Ritalin to make them conformist vegetables.
Very interesting, and a different perspective on what, with this topic, is usually the same old thing.
I know that as I have progressed with homeschooling, I've grown to consider the question, "What's the point of this assignment?" much more important, as well as, "What's the point of learning this material at all?"
Sometimes the answer will be, "Because you're going to be tested on it at the end of the year," or "Because this is an important skill that you'll use on the SAT," but we try to minimize that sort of instruction.
Public schools shortchange all their students, as well as good teachers. The answer is to not use them if at all possible.
Boy I'd be so screwed in school today
I'm wandering around freerepublic.com rather than preparing the lesson plans for the upcoming year in my English and history classes. Thanks for posting this article. Boys are screwed in the modern school. I try my best to mitigate the damage, as do some of the other teachers that I work with, but in general the anti-male bias is intense. Phallophobic might be a good word to invent for the bias; the word might produce a few nervous laughs, and laughter is a good method to get other teachers to remember the concept.
In any case, I'll have this article in the back of my mind as I plan out the year. Thanks.
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I think boys and girls should have seperate classrooms and casual uniforms should be required. JMHO.
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Articles like this only reinforce the parochial school wisdom of separating the sexes. Boys and girls have different educational needs and mixing them together at best makes for uneasy compromises. In the hands of an agenda-driven bureaucracy things get downright dysfunctional.
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Oh, by the way. Do you know that for each kid in special education, teachers get a bonus? They don't for a 504 Plan!
Imagine what could have been achieved if Brandon and the class had gotten past the book title and actually had the great pleasure of reading Joseph Conrad.
Well, we'll never know.
And to think that I am sitting here, trying to write an article, and my mind wandered off and I stopped here at FR and . . . hmmm, where did I put that Ritalin?
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My 4ear old is going to Catholic school even though I pay 10K a year in property taxes for a modest home. No way am i subjecting him to this crap.
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What ? That's plain BS. Females may have fewer REAL learning disorders but there are sure a lot of females in special ed "diagnosed" with ADHD and LD.
Special ed is no better for female students than it is for males. It's primary purpose today is to get more money for the schools.