No Running, No Jumping: The War Against Boys in Our Schools

WorthyNews ^ | 7/7-26-2000 | Charles W. Colson

[GrandMoM]

.....In the book" War Against Boys" the author tells the story of how it has become fashionable to attribute pathology to millions of healthy male children. It is a story of how we are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. No one denies that boys' agressive tendencies must be checked and channeled in constructive ways. Boys need discipline, respect, and moral guidance. Boys need love and tolerant understanding. They do not need to be pathologized!

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[Capriole]

Great idea, Uno--but what if you have to work for a living? You can't hold down a job and let the kids run around all day or sit in a daycare center, then come home to school them at night. Nor can you run a successful business all day if you're homeschooling at the same time, for both are full time jobs and have to be done mostly in the daytime. It's not an option for many of us who don't have another spouse to support us.

[TheWriterInTexas]

Check into the local homeschooling network in your area. If you help support them in their goals, perhaps a loving, supportive parent will support you by teaching your child along with their own.

Another good way to offset the negative influences at school is to involve your child in some kind of group that encourages, teaches, and praises moral, healthy behavior. In many cities, you don't have to belong to a church/religious body to have your kids attend the youth group or go to Sunday school.

It's a tremendously difficult to be a good parent and the primary provider. I will continue keep you, and other hardworking parents (single or not), in my prayers.

[F-117A]

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[GrandMoM]

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....What's your take on this???

[GrandMoM]

What great ideas, THANK YOU!!!!!!!

[rockfish59]

Dang! No more kick and dodge ball?

I guess their hearts are warm and gay these days!

[quietolong]

What about taking the indoctrinater’s out of the schools? Were paying for them.

The weighty truth about public education

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/966873/posts

[GATOR NAVY]

A friend and I were just talking about this last night. I'd never let either of my sons be doped up as a condition for attending school.

[Centurion2000]

Why don't we have more conservatives in our public schools?

Because the pay sucks ?

[Keyes2000mt]

Screwtape explains why:

http://adamsweb.mysitespace.com/screwtape4.htm

[jimkress]

Start a boys only private school or send them to a military acacdemy.

[GrandMoM]

Dang! No more kick and dodge ball?

RECESS the one time during the school day when boys can legitimately engage in rowdy play--is now under siege and may soon be a thing of the past. In 1998, Atlanta eliminated recess in all its elementary schools. I Philadelphia, school officials have replaced traditional recess with "socialized recesses" in which the children are assigned structured activities and carefully monitored.

[SedVictaCatoni]

What I'm trying to say here is that conservatives must think and act as a family if 'we' and our country's culture and values is to survive and not be transformed from an extention of European/Christian values and culture to one being reclaimed by the Third World unassimilable immigrants.

I'd just like to stick up for the Third Worlders for a moment. Whatever else you might say about them, they generally have beliefs right in line with the "European/Christian values" which once prevailed. The Latin Americans believe in strong families and are usually quite religious. The Asians believe in building a better life for their children, and instilling their children with a strong respect for study and hard work. Modern Christianity, for that matter, is seeing its strongest growth in sub-Saharan African.

I kind of prefer the Third World immigrants to the postmodern post-Christians we're already stuck with (and who comprise the majority in Europe). They may have a lot to learn about our cultural practices, but you're not going to see them insisting that Gaia the Wiccan Earth Goddess and her sacrament of recycling be taught in school.

[TheWriterInTexas]

Thanks, GrandMom.

My husband and I are old-fashioned, strict Roman Catholic. At present, our church has a school attached, but the waiting list is so long and the classes are so small, the possiblity of our children being placed is slim.

Since the Southern Baptists in our area are most closely aligned with our moral beliefs (overlooking litergical and some doctrinal differences, the Southern Baptists hold a similarly strong line on morality), we are sending our children to a Baptist Pre-School and will probably start them in a Baptist Sunday School program. I already spoke to the Pastor; he is more than willing to have our children attend Sunday School there, even though my husband and I are of a different denomination.

The program is wonderful, very Christ centered, and has built upon what I have been teaching my children at home. They are still babies (2 and 3), but they have fabulous manners, are well behaved, and love learning. There is plenty of rough and tumble play time, too, particularly in our house.

My girlfriend very much wants to home school and has investigated the network here in our area. Since I went to school to teach, I am highly confident I could aid her in this venture.

Should my children encounter difficulty with the local public school, I will teach them at home. After having tutored several kids on the block and having witnessed the errors and omissions in assignments given to them, I am confident I am equally, if not better qualified to instruct them - and I will do so, without hesitation.

[quietolong]

>>>> assigned structured activities and carefully monitored <<<


Gee were have I heard that before??

Recess is considered one of the most important activities in school.