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For boys and girls, go single-sex
www.jewishworldreview.com ^ | Rich Lowry

Posted on 03/18/2005 6:37:03 AM PST by manny613

Your 8-year-old son who has trouble reading or little interest in picking up a book could benefit from the Larry Summers controversy.

That's because from out of the ashes of the Harvard conflagration is rising a nugget of something valuable. The Harvard president, as everyone now knows, speculated at a seminar that men might be overrepresented for genetic reasons in the top jobs in science and engineering at universities. While Summers surely would now retract his comments, if nothing else, he struck a blow against the dreary orthodoxy of gender sameness.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: education; singlesex

1 posted on 03/18/2005 6:37:03 AM PST by manny613
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To: manny613

Oak Hay... lemme guess. If I want to be a good little PC FReeper, I need to slice off my weenie, eh ??? ;-))


2 posted on 03/18/2005 7:19:43 AM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
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To: GeekDejure


ha,

Also, I think single sex schools offer less of a distraction. Girls and Boys don't have to worry so much about Boys and girls.


3 posted on 03/18/2005 9:05:01 AM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Also, I think single sex schools offer less of a distraction. Girls and Boys don't have to worry so much about Boys and girls.

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I know what "Boys" are, I know what "Girls" are, but what the heck is an "and" ??? ;-))




4 posted on 03/18/2005 9:36:11 AM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
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