[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Garrett Nash blurted out answers before his teacher called on him. He tickled a student sitting next to him and sometimes bolted out of lines. One cold day, he left school without his winter coat.

OH, my goodness, he sounds like ... gasp!... a little boy!! How dreadful is that?! /sarc

Ever notice that a huge percentage of the kids they want to drug are boys? Boys are boys, and they're a handful. Teachers used to know that. (Of course, they also used to be able to wash their little mouths out with soap on occasion, but we can't do that anymore now, can we?)

[tryon1ja]

Ever notice that a huge percentage of the kids they want to drug are boys? Boys are boys, and they're a handful. Teachers used to know that. (Of course, they also used to be able to wash their little mouths out with soap on occasion, but we can't do that anymore now, can we?)

I personally think that most children can behave themselves with the right coaching and proper attention. A lot of teachers now days do not want to take the extra time or effort it takes to make an individual difference to a child. If a child in not in the mainstream, they want to have someone or something, medication, do the mainstreaming for them. However in support of the teachers, I have had some teachers tell me that the administration of the school is so afraid of lawsuits and bad PR that they tie the teachers hands so they are afraid to try and make a difference and go outside the mainstream to help someone. I think that if this is the situation, and the teacher is hobbled but still wants to make a difference, then the teacher needs to assert their rights with the administration or find work somewhere else. It is just too easy to not do anything these days and get away with it.

[Alia]

I've been meaning and wanting to respond to your post:

Ever notice that a huge percentage of the kids they want to drug are boys? Boys are boys, and they're a handful. Teachers used to know that. (Of course, they also used to be able to wash their little mouths out with soap on occasion, but we can't do that anymore now, can we?)

The standards in schools got changed, effectively, in the early 90s. Certain "feminists" (Carol Gilligan et al) averred that girls were being short-changed in schools. They further averred that pub ed catered to boys in tests and other matters. (Insert Title 9 agenda, here).

One of the things that got changed? Fewer recesses; more "talking" time. Girls tend to be more verbal; boys more physical. As the schools cut down on recesses and necessary time for the physical boys to burn off steam, more boys began acting up in class.

And we've now seen the solutions offered: drug 'em. But! As feminism and modern corporate America began pushing more "activity" programming (Disney channel, dancing, phys-ed) stuff via TV and popular MSM print -- more girls began becoming physically active. Therefore, IMHO; the parity in stats. But there's also another angle here: Even boys who get into trouble for acting out in class -- are at least getting negative attention. What do little girls crave too? Attention.

Then there's the "who's a victim" playbook at play: Boys on Drugs have a "condition" -- meaning they are "more special than average". In peer-driven classrooms, this ups the ante, IME, for how to "get special attention.

There are fine teachers and administrators caught alive in this horrid web. Having to operate by "district policy" whether they like it or not.