Posted on 02/20/2010 8:27:08 PM PST by AJKauf
As a volunteer in my daughters kindergarten class, I was asked to help children write a story (a few words) to illustrate their pictures. Only one girl needed my writing help; only one boy could write for himself. Nearly all the boys seemed to be a full year behind nearly all the girls in their ability to pay attention, follow directions, control frustrations, sit still, handle a pencil or crayon and do what used to be considered first-grade work.
As reading and writing are pushed down to earlier ages, boys are struggling harder to meet higher expectations, writes Richard Whitmire, a former USA Today reporter, in Why Boys Fail.
Each year since 1988 the gap between boys and girls reading skills has widened a bit more, Whitmire writes. Boys arent wired for early verbal skills and teachers arent trained in boy-friendly techniques to help them catch up.
Boys are asked to do too much too soon and labeled hyperactive or bipolar or autistic if they act like little boys, writes psychologist Anthony Rao in The Way of Boys.....
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Rosie O-Donnell may consider “herself” a feminist......although most sentient creatures recognize a pig is a pig is a pig.
In “her” case, literally so.
The original feminist was Betty Friedan, who started the N.O.W. She went to great pains to give the illusion of having been a very apolitical, completely ordinary housewife for years.
It was alllll BS:
She was a Marxist-Leninist who lived in a huge mansion on the Hudson river. She didn’t even have to do housework, instead employing several domestics. She also had an affair with one of the commies who developed the Atomic Bomb with Oppenheimer.
THE ORIGINAL LIMOUSINE LIBERAL/TELLER OF THE BIG LIE
After I met the teacher I realized that she just wasn't that good of a teacher and consequently, my son got bored.
Both the school counselor and my (now ex-)wife were insisting on getting him started on Ritalin, but I wouldn't budge. I refused.
He's 25 now and that was the only time the subject ever came up. And after comparing notes with other parents over the years I realized that those teachers ill-equipped to handle boys would rather just medicate them. Makes their jobs easier.
Rosie can’t even figure out tabs go into slots. Like anyone should ever listen to her for advice with the one exception as to where the good restaurants are in town.
Well put!
My son, who is 6’3 and 210 as a sophomore in high school, is treated terribly by the feminist teachers. He is a really good kid, but a boy! They treat him like his he inferior. Makes our blood boil.
Oh, how the truth just must be spoken.
thank you
mrs
The sissymen wish they were like him and the machowimmin want a piece of him.
It's a screwed up psychology, but a normal male, familiar with killing insects, can easily parry psychologically (with family support) any overt of sublime arrows
Our little boy is now a perfectly normal 14 year old who likes snowball fights, computer games, rock climbing, girls and robotics, to varying degrees on various days. He plans to study mechanical engineering or industrial design. He still loves swords, and won a classical league competition with his hand-made 4-foot Roman sword. Boys will be boys, thank God.
So glad that you stuck by your boy!
Bully for you!
mrs
boys really are different than girls. This girl is very happy about that!
Fellow I know was living with his girlfriend in a basement apartment. When one early morning they were awakened to a home invader in their bedroom.
The drug addict threatened them right there in their bedroom and demanded money. The boyfriend did nothing and let the guy have the run of the room and told him to take what he wanted and get out.
After hearing the story the first thing I said is its over for them. She’ll leave him at the first chance. Everyone who knew them said I was crazy. They’re in love, they’re made for each other and they are going to be married.
She walked in less than a month. No woman wants to marry a coward who’d let some half-live crack addict terrify her in her own bed. The feminists and the metrosexuals who follow their advice have one thing in common - their the last of their breed.
As they die off our society and culture our getting stronger. The sooner we get them out of our schools/indoctrination camps, the better off America will be. We need vouchers asap.
Women don’t make those babies on their own.
I would like to know how his story ended. It sounds fascinating!!
I guess I’m just boy oriented.
mrs
...that sounds like an interesting story. (At least I think so.)
True enough. It's especially true at the elementary level. We seem to have quite a few men teaching at the high school, or even at the middle school level in our district. Once the boys get past elementary school, they usually have at least some male teachers, especially if they are in higher level math and physical science classes. Unfortunately, many of the good men teachers end up in administrative positions, and are lost from the classroom after a few years.
Our older son's AP calculus teacher is retiring after this year, and his honors chemistry teacher from last year is now the assistant principal. Our son has a lot of respect for both of them, and and we hope that he'll have a decent teacher in his senior year for calc II. Unfortunately, his younger brother will miss out on both of these excellent teachers. They both prefer men teachers in most instances. Part of it is rapport and male-friendly teaching style, and part of it is avoidance of some of the feminist bias in how content is presented.
>Women dont make those babies on their own.
They will when the government controls health-care because, in addition to food-stamps, single women will be provided with ‘sperm-dollars.’
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And not just keep them under control but give them a positive, masculine male role model (if they don't have one at home) and also to distinguish between truly destructive behavior and little boys acting like little boys.
Sounds like your typical little-boy fantasy. It’s not all unicorns and rainbows....
Apart from being a bit naive about boys, I actually liked his first grade teacher. Having traveled in the former Eastern Bloc, she knew a bit about the world. She was unusually patriotic among her peers, and after a year in her classroom, our son was bugging us to go visit Mount Vernon during the summer. We did, and we all enjoyed it. He's always had a great love of country, and she helped encourage it.
Oh, I get it, feminist means you like women just like communist means you like communism. In that case, I'm a feminist.
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