To: rickmichaels
step 1: Put the girls in another school by themselves.
To: rickmichaels
Boys of single mothers go to school where they are under the responsibility of mostly women teachers who in many cases are single mothers themselves. Boys want to be boys and when their single mothers and single mother teachers don’t know how to relate to the boys, the result is ritalin for the boys.
3 posted on
09/14/2013 9:09:09 AM PDT by
fso301
To: rickmichaels
The libs just say what Thurgood Marshall said: “Now it’s OUR turn.”
4 posted on
09/14/2013 9:09:58 AM PDT by
Cyber Liberty
(It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
To: rickmichaels
The preschool-kindergarten to which we send our son is a private Catholic school run by Italian nuns. Sister could be 85, or she could be 95, I really don’t know! It is fantastic however, and they insist that boys be permitted to be boys and that girls be “little flowers.” That’s not to say that girls may only play house and boys may only rough house, but the nuns and volunteer staff do focus on proper gender issues. If my son picked up a doll they wouldn’t freak out. My son is extremely rambunctious, borderline ADHD actually, and they work so well with us when it comes to his activity level. They know and understand that he must burn off as much energy as possible as often as possible. I frequently walk in and see him wrestling with other boys. The contact is friendly and playful. The nuns would never condone actual fighting!
5 posted on
09/14/2013 9:13:59 AM PDT by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: rickmichaels
Yet the education establishment and federal government are, with some notable exceptions, looking the other way. They are not just looking the other way, they are actively orchestrating the demise of traditional males and their roles in society.
To: don-o
This article in its entirety is very good read; with V in mind.
7 posted on
09/14/2013 9:19:12 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
("Jesus thrown everything off balance." - (The Misfit) Flannery O'Connor)
To: rickmichaels
Power tools and explosives would make school more interesting for boys. ;)
/johnny
To: rickmichaels
10 posted on
09/14/2013 9:29:51 AM PDT by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: rickmichaels
To the headline: home school, so boys can be boys
12 posted on
09/14/2013 9:52:16 AM PDT by
svcw
(We do not fear death, as much as we fear no one will remember us.)
To: rickmichaels
Women in the United States now earn 62 percent of associates degrees, 57 percent of bachelors degrees, 60 percent of masters degrees, and 52 percent of doctorates. College admissions officers were at first baffled, then concerned, and finally panicked over the dearth of male applicants. If male enrollment falls to 40 percent or below, female students begin to flee. Officials at schools at or near the tipping point (American University, Boston University, Brandeis University, New York University, the University of Georgia, and the University of North Carolina, to name only a few) are helplessly watching as their campuses become like retirement villages, with a surfeit of women competing for a handful of surviving men. The same effect will take place in the military.
As the military becomes more feminized, the men will start drifting off and not consider it as one of their interests.
13 posted on
09/14/2013 10:09:19 AM PDT by
ansel12
( Libertarians, the left's social agenda with conservatism's economics, which is impossible of course)
To: rickmichaels
To: rickmichaels
I spent two semesters as a visiting professor in Turkey,in the engineering school. My department chairman had received his PhD in the US. One day he remarked to me that the big difference between the engineering students he saw in the US and those in Turkey was that the US engineering students came to the university already familiar with hand tools.
Given the trend away from shop classes in US schools, I wonder if that's still true. When I was in high school (graduated in 1949), even those of us in the college track were encouraged to take one or more shop courses. I still have the stool I built in carpentry shop.
Since the schools are no longer teaching mechanical skills, it's more important for fathers to spend time with their sons building something, anything, to give them familiarity with tools and with the idea that "I could build that."
21 posted on
09/14/2013 10:50:12 AM PDT by
JoeFromSidney
( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
To: rickmichaels
Of course they wouldn’t listen.
‘The View’ is just a bunch of loudmouth yentas sitting around clucking and sniffing each other’s farts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HKvTU6h-20
I can see that and I’m not even Jewish.
To: rickmichaels
29 posted on
09/14/2013 12:59:26 PM PDT by
sphinx
To: rickmichaels
If you want to make school better for any of your kids you should homeschool them if at all possible!!!Public schools are really good places to learn all there is to know about how to fail!!!
31 posted on
09/14/2013 1:36:39 PM PDT by
ontap
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To: rickmichaels
As the United States moves toward a knowledge-based economy, school achievement has become the cornerstone of lifelong success. Women are adapting; men are not. Yet the education establishment and federal government are, with some notable exceptions, looking the other way.
Huh? Men still outnumber women graduating with degrees in math, science, and engineering. You know, the degrees that get good careers. And propel the nation ahead with technological innovation.
But yes, I agree that schools purposely hold back the boys. Expecting a boy to sit in a chair, quietly paying attention, and not moving around, isn't normal behavior. Boys and girls learn differently. Not one of my useless education classes mentioned that fact, BTW. But we got hours and hours about cultural diversity and other such crap.
When I let my calculus kids do a set of practice problems any way they wanted - the boys all got up and worked together on the whiteboards. All but 2 girls sat in desks, some working alone and some together. The boys were animated, talking loudly, but very engaged. All learned what they were supposed to - but the boys needed to do it in a manner vastly different from the girls.
The liberal education establishment tries to make girly-men out of our boys. Just because teachers don't want to deal with the energy level and action-oriented behavior that is perfectly normal for boys. (And necessary - how do they go about slaying dragons without it?)
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