Some adolescents between the ages of 13-25 are simply not educable in a traditional classroom setting. Their hormones are raging and they are definitely not scholarly. It would be wise to reconstruct educational structures and policies to reflect this biological reality.
>Some adolescents between the ages of 13-25 are simply not educable in a traditional classroom setting. Their hormones are raging and they are definitely not scholarly. It would be wise to reconstruct educational structures and policies to reflect this biological reality.<
That’s absolutely true. This is why adolescents in high school and college are generally not scholarly.
Putting the two sexes together, and squeezing them into their space where they can see, smell, and hear the other sex, while hormones roar like Niagra Falls isn’t a good idea.
Back when co-education was new and edgy the so-called Puritans warned us this would happen. No one listened, let alone took heed.
I firmly believe, first of all in homeschooling. My next preference is single sex schools, because boys and girls are different, but while the hormones moan they want to find out all they can about those differences.
Yes, we must change our classroom settings. And change our popular culture. None of this will happen until we get out of the American hormonal culture itself. All of this is wrapped up into a whirling cultural dynamic that few really want to change.
And braless girls sanuntering the halls in coed schools are no hopeful sign that change is on the way.