Posted on 01/06/2014 7:26:58 AM PST by xzins
In the 50’s and 60’s our schools were full of recess, activity, and competition. Boys thrived.
Boy, that sure brings back memories. That game was a common game that we boys played with relish. I wonder if any schools still play it.
Other games included splitting up fifty boys or more and playing a crude game of kickball. The goal was the school playground fence. The rules were: there were no rules.... except whatever side kicked it into the fence won. There were other roughhouse games, but my memory is getting dimmer.
I then present a slide which states: Males and females differ biologically, cognitively, and socio-emotionally. These differences are completely normal and do not imply either superiority or inferiority.
I've been doing this for over four years and, so far, no problems.
In my era, that kid above would have been laughed at. No lie.
The idea of a helmet to ride a bike or to put on a pair of skates simply wasn't part of the thinking. We'd ride our bikes into the yard, coast up the incline a bit, and jump off when they hit the grass. Bikes all over the yard, run into the house, grab a pbj and be gone again until supper.
I know my parents knew what I looked like, but I'm surprised.
Stop the nonsense. Mr. Orlasky is paralleling the liberals. His solution is his own individual social engineering. He says,
“To survive in the new economy you need education beyond high school, so we should keep up with the Europeans: They’re offering in their high schools career and technical training.”
Orlasky’s solution is to mandate or push boys into technical training. Follow the European model.
When we deviate from the basic model of “learning, reading, writing, and arithmetic,” we dilute the potential end product.
In Orlasky’s world the government would be teaching aviation technical training, but the curriculum would be fixing bi-planes.
We’ve had technical schools for longer than Orlasky’s been writing. Like our other schools, they do an average job. Too often they train kids in dead end jobs. By the time they buy any new technology and have teachers able to teach it, that technology has been superceded.
There are old standbys that strike me as good for quite a while. Mechanical, plumbing, heat/cooling, construction, hair, auto/truck, and the like will be significant for some time.
Better to be teaching each of those new job aspirants that they real money will always be in owning and succeeding at their own business in their field.
A lot of Tweet sorties out at Willie back then, too. I worked the motor pool for a while for a contractor.
Boys are naturally violent, born with a gun between their legs.
When I was in HS the boys were required to take wood or metal shop, and the girls home economics. There were some who took both, but then that was elective only, and not counted toward the graduation requirement. I always thought HomeEc would have been valuable. But at least my wife taught me how to cook.
Where are my recipes? “Yum, yum. Eat um up!”
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Why are we pushing college?? We need plumbers, carpenters, auto mechanics and others skills that isn’t taught at a college. What needs to be done is to create schookls for skills and tell those students rthat they are needed.
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