Posted on 01/22/2006 4:45:41 PM PST by Lorianne
No father.
Interesting ping.
Gosh, maybe it's because girls are taught to say, Girls rule, boys drule. and maybe it's because boys are now the lowest form of life in our culture. I hate the latest trends. They are evil for our girls AND our boys.
Uhmm, could he cut down his guitar time and maybe, just maybe channel that energy into his studies? Nah, that can't be the answer.
I agree.
Jeff
the never ending failure of liberal policies..
Exactly. I was a teacher from the late '60s to the mid '80s. It was obvious to me back then how devastating the lack of a father is to a boy. No matter how well meaning and lovingly strict a mother is, it's just not the same as having a father around.
"SUCCESS = emasculated, Oprahfied, effeminate, neurotic, self-loathing, liberal"
If boys are "falling behind" in that area -- THEN GOOD.
Yah I recall one particular history lesson where the gym teacher ( also history teacher ) who occasionally read the history book but mainly made it all up as he went told us that Midway didn't have an airfield. We pointed out that it did and that the land based planes held off the nips long enough and just barely till the carrier based craft were able to join the fray.
He rarely enjoyed "teaching" us about history because it always made him look bad. And like you I was bored.
That comment proves you don't understand the problem.
For boys now, music is a true meritocracy and challenge. You either rock, or suck.
Academics, and work-life in general, is stacked against them. They want to be challenged, but they need a hope of prevailing.
In school, as in work, the greater a man prevails, the more he will be punished.
Keep playing the guitar....
Never having been a boy, myself, I can't speak to what schooling was like for them when I was a kid (graduated high school in 1984). But I have 4 boys, and another one due any minute, and they don't go to school.
My 11-year-old is hyperactive. We don't worry about it. If he can't sit down, he runs around the block a few times, and then he can focus for a while. (His latest 5K time was under 25 minutes.) When he needs more exercise, he gets it. He's doing algebra and loves it. My 9-year-old could add, subtract, multiply, and divide when he was 5, but just learned to write legibly this year. No problem (except when he tried to read lists he'd made :-).
I'm sure we'll have various things come up with the other boys, as well. The main point is that they're allowed to emphasize their strengths, and aren't in competition with girls to please a woman teacher all the time.
Here is the problem:
Growing boys need sex....Its a well knownfact
We need government run "Monica" centers for our youth ....
That will allow them to focus and be more productive
Jeff
Well there you go. Phish sucks.
Buy the kid an Ozzy anthology.
Who diagnosed his disorder? Pediatric treatment with drugs has gone up about 700% in the last decade if I recall the gist of articles posted here on FR correctly. IMO, it ain't the kids, it's what they are being put through and how they are handled.
Unreal--there is the classic leftist socio-biological totalitarianism that leads straight to the Killing Fields....
-----We had to put him on foculin.-----Would it be better phrased, we decided to put him on foculin? Boys today are as rambunctious as boys of yesterday but back then there was discipline in the classroom and more physical activities at school and at home to use up the energy medication is now supressing. Boredom is overcome with an interesting subject on which to concentrate that wandering mind. Find what interests these boys and incorporate it into learning what is being taught. Fiying,planes,cars, and lots of patience. Good luck.
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