Posted on 05/17/2005 9:49:03 PM PDT by herst1240
I was wondering what everyone thought of this, I recently came across this article and found it extremely disturbing.
This discussed gender issues in Public Schools. Moreover, how boys in elementary schools are discriminated against. They are being wrongly "masculinized," this will render boys less competitive, more emotionally expressive, more nurturing more, in short the agenda is to raise boys to be more like girls. This is just one aspect of the article. What freaked me out was, "The performance gap between boys and girls in high school leads directly to the growing gap between male and female admissions to college. The Department of Education reports that in 1996 there were 8.4 million women but only 6.7 million men enrolled in college. It predicts that women will hold on to and increase their lead well into the next decade, and that by 2007 the numbers will be 9.2 million women and 6.9 million men."
How come it seems this is not being addressed? I think this would hurt many women to see what the school system is doing to their boys. can anything be done to prevent this? I am ordering the book and thanks for your time. Samantha (I am new to free republic)
http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/waronboys.htm
Enroll your kids in private education or homeschooling. Public school systems get dollar allocations per student. Reduce the students in the system and they get reduced funding. Ain't competition great?
Girlie Men.
Just one more reason to homeschool or send your little curtain-climbers to private school.
In short?...it's run by the government.
Privatize it...get some competition going. Let the parents vote with their feet and their own tax monies. Then you will see all of this garbage, socializing, feel good, liberalism go away and kids being given an education that will serve them in the work force as adults again.
Just my opinion.
Welcome to Free Republic. This is a good topic, but there were several problems in the way you posted your thread.
I call it the Government school system when talking to other people. We had to home school our last 2 kids after the 5th grade, because things where just too bad in the middle schools. They both turned out great compared to their friends and older sister who all went through all 12 years of government schooling.
No Running, No Jumping: The War Against Boys in Our Schools
The sad truth is, IMHO, is it's a part of "Third Worlding" of America. Gramsci's "Long March Through the Institutions" seems to fit nicely with current events in education and elsewhere. Some links:
ANTONIO GRAMSCI, 1891-1937 - The New OrderTocqueville vs. Gramsci: Transmit Or Transform; That Is The Question
Buchanan Links Decline of West to Gramsci (Review of Death of the West)
WWGD? (What Would Gramsci Do?)
Gramsci vs. Tocqueville or Marxism vs. the American Ideology
The Meaning of "Original Sin" - re Gramsci
Toward the Total State by William Norman Grigg - re Gramsci
Who is Antonio Gramsci? You Better Learn!!!
Historical Illiteracy and Gramsci...loss of cultural heritage
FGS
Ditto.
1. Pull your children of public indoctrination centers.
2. Return the money used for public education back to the taxpayers in the form of an Educational Tax Credit. Beware of school vouchers - they're another socialist wealth redistribution schemes, and it will only make matters worse.
That's my synopsis on how to solve this issue.
Oppose public education. Take it out of the hands of overpaid teachers and instructors who are mostly concerned with personal and social issues.
You'd be better advised to look at ''incompetence'' and ''agenda''.
It's quite paradoxical that someone who cannot, apparently, teach 3rd and 4th graders to read and do simple arithmetic, is simultaneously somehow competent to teach ''attitudes'', and/or whatever other PC kwapola is on the agenda. Not to mention the incredible notion, as practised, of ''sex education (sic)''.
I swear libs are trying to create a nation of emotional babies who can't fend for themselves. Human nature (boys like to be boys which means breaking things, running around like maniacs a good part of the time, and figuring out and doing many things by themselves) will inevitably trump libs ridiculous schemes to control male behavior. But they can do a lot of damage in the short run.
My kids went to parochial grade school. It's one of the best decisions my husband and I ever made.
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