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Great Britain: Schools told to encourage boys to play netball and dance to 'balance gender'
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | December 27, 2007 | BETH HALE

Posted on 12/27/2007 12:06:29 PM PST by Stoat

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To: Tax-chick
I played it in 7th and 8th grade. In the USA it's called (or was called) "women's basketball." Slightly different rules, zone playing, lots of passing and little (or no?) dribbling. I wasn't any good at it, by the way, and even the doting parents thought it was boring to watch.
61 posted on 12/27/2007 3:49:19 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Point of clarification.)
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To: AnnGora

I’m under the impression (as a Yank) that there are plenty of people with common sense in GB. The problem is that they are apparently not in positions of power.


62 posted on 12/27/2007 3:50:11 PM PST by beejaa
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

“There is nothing in England worth saving.”

This is an absurd statement (and I’m from the US).


63 posted on 12/27/2007 3:55:34 PM PST by beejaa
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To: AU72
Stupidity in schools is not limited to the UK.

My friend, who teaches in a school here in the US, tells me that there can be no strenuous exercises now in gym class in her school district. Why? Because the kids can no longer take showers after gym. Why? Because kids have been taking pictures of other kids naked in the showers with their cellphone cams.

The world will be full of wimps in a few years.

64 posted on 12/27/2007 3:57:12 PM PST by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: Stoat

Amen. To the point of being allowed to sexually harass (mho)children during school with the homosexual “point of view”. Thanks to the 9th Circuit Court they can do it without parents being notified.


65 posted on 12/27/2007 4:07:48 PM PST by abigailsmybaby (I was born with nothing. So far I have most of it left.)
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To: CodeToad

LOL


66 posted on 12/27/2007 4:08:18 PM PST by abigailsmybaby (I was born with nothing. So far I have most of it left.)
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To: Stoat
“Schools most also ensure that more girls study traditionally masculine subjects such as science.”

What will happen, is the study of science will be feminised, in other words, suitably diluted to ensure females will achieve a pass mark....

67 posted on 12/27/2007 4:11:13 PM PST by thinking
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To: NonValueAdded
"But if girls demand a rugby team, schools could be expected to provide it."

My daughter plays on a girls' rugby team at college and enjoys the heck out of it, even as rather petite as she is. It took me a bit to get used to all her bangs and bruises however.

68 posted on 12/27/2007 4:28:17 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: the scotsman
Mind you,Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin, the Kaiser, the Argentine Junta and Commmunists all have said the same for nearly 200 years...

Hitler: "In three weeks England will have its neck wrung like a chicken."

Churchill: Some chicken...some neck!"

69 posted on 12/27/2007 4:33:22 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Mrs. Don-o; Tax-chick

There is no dribbling and the ball must be passed within 3 seconds or it’s a foul. Only 2 people on the team can shoot baskets, which is a pole with a hoop on the end - no backboard or net. I always thought it was a dumb game.


70 posted on 12/27/2007 5:04:18 PM PST by reformed_dem
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To: hinckley buzzard

LOL

Like all Western countries, we have problems but we are not quite ‘down the toilet pan’ yet...

Nor are you. SO FIGHT!.

All the best.


71 posted on 12/27/2007 5:18:52 PM PST by the scotsman
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To: Caipirabob

Raised in the country...not that much variety, I guess. But, I like your definition better... Thanks for the smile.


72 posted on 12/27/2007 6:12:33 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion.)
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To: domenad

It’s easy. Just do like I did when my wife insisted I try “swing” dancing. I just threw her into the wall. She’s pretty much left me alone since then.


My advice to you is do NOT insist your wife try hunting...


73 posted on 12/27/2007 7:28:29 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: UKTory; Stoat
Complete waste of time for someone to have to produce policy papers, and no doubt focus groups and some brand new buzz words to boot.

That's how they justify their employment. Next year they'll find even more inequity.

On the plus side, if our stupid nanny state government is busying itself with stuff like this, it lessens the possibility of doing any damage meddling with anything important....

Just wait. The boys who are being emasculated haven't grown up yet. Have you ever seen the behavior of men who haven't been taught how to be men?

74 posted on 12/27/2007 7:33:08 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: UKTory
I wonder which is right?

My best guess is it was more or less simultaneous.

75 posted on 12/27/2007 7:36:27 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Stoat

It looks like the UK is in competition with the United States to see who can be the sickest when it comes to feminizing boys in the government schools. For God’s sake, if you love your children get them OUT of the government schools.


76 posted on 12/27/2007 7:54:46 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Stoat

Torchwood is a Doctor Who spinoff for “adult” audiences. (”Torchwood” is an anagram of “Doctor Who”). I didn’t know about “fixations with homosexuality”. I stopped watching after the second episode because it was so rubbish...


77 posted on 01/03/2008 2:36:19 AM PST by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9

I appreciate it, thank you. Since my earlier posts here I was able to watch a couple of episodes also and I came to the same conclusion. I’ve always loved sci-fi, but this simply wasn’t very well done.


78 posted on 01/03/2008 3:48:07 AM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: the scotsman

...and the episode “gridlock” (even though there was a gay couple as minor characters) was more positive about faith and religion than any drama series I have seen in twelve months.


79 posted on 01/03/2008 7:39:56 AM PST by Vanders9
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To: Stoat

We will always have tomboys and we will always have boys who are sissies, but by and large boys and girls like to do different things. And after puberty, both the physical and mental cpabilities and interests of both increasingly diverge. These truisms once were taken for granted. No more. Edducational bureaucrats will always carry matters to the extreme to CTA.


80 posted on 01/03/2008 9:19:29 AM PST by RobbyS
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