Girls get extra school help while boys get Ritalin

USA Today/Yahoo ^ | 8/29/03 | USA Today - Staff

[afraidfortherepublic]

I had both! Both were earned trying to keep up with the athletic neighborhood boys!

[friendly]

Massive, and I mean massive anti-male prejudice and profound gender discrimination exists in the public schools against boys.

They receive none of the individual attention given to girls, and instead "labeled" and referred for Ritalin, Adderal, Strattera, even anti-psychotic medication!

And no one stands up for the boys. Time for home schooling!!!

[thoughtomator]

Yes, like the 'civil rights' movement went from pushing for equal justice under law to race pimping, the feminist movement went from equal rights under law to annihilationist with respect to the male gender. Of the two, the race pimps are by far the less insidious and dangerous.

[bulldogs]

"Perhaps they go into social work, psychology, and teaching professions, where they can make a living fraudulently prescribing Ritalin to yet another generation of helpless male children"


LOL!!! Great comback!

[annyokie]

Sheesh! What a show-off! ; )

[afraidfortherepublic]

...no more than 5% of the people taking the exams with me were women.

I think that means that the women pursued engineering careers that did not need State Licensing, or changed careers. Few engineers get their state licenses. It's only if they are going to be consultants where they have to sign off on their work, have careers as expert witnesses, or city or state department heads that they bother.

My husband finally let his license lapse because nobody ever was very impressed by it and we own our own company where it is not needed and he got tired of paying the dues. Neither son has even bothered to go for his. That really irritates me because I was always impressed by the license and my husband's ability to sign PE after his name and afix a nice official stamp underneath! And I remember how hard he studied for the two tests. His was a good license too with reciprocity in every state of the union.

[Anarchist]

That seems to be more of a blood-sugar problem. He would benefit more from a low-sugar, low-carbohydrate diet (sort of like Atkins).

Ditch the Ritalin.

[William Terrell]

What complaint was that? That there wasn't enough football questions on a test?

Ths is not really a stupid question.

Too many Barbie boutique and ensemble workshops. Boys are hardwired for designing, building and maintaining civilizations. Proper training and preparation takes a lot of time, special peer interaction and natal tool development.

All these things take place far from the ken of girls, who follow a different development path. They have no referent for comprehension, nor boys theirs. So I would expect such a question from the female half.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Not quite at your level but when I was hiring large numbers of semi-skilled workers I found that high school dropouts were a good bet. There were a number who should never have been in school past the third grade but there were a large number who were so bright that they couldn't stand the slow pace of high school. That rich vein ran out with meth. They just couldn't stay away from the stuff.

[lelio]

That would be an interesting study in high school students. Ritalin vs a low sugar / low carb diet.

Course psychologists and drug companies don't make money on Atkin's so I doubt there would be much interest in funding the study.

[afraidfortherepublic]

There is nothing new about the discrepency between boys and girls in school. Female teachers have always favored the girls, and the boys have always spent an inordinate time in the hall or down in the office. The change starts in high school when the girls start spending more time and thought on how they look and more male teachers are on the faculty. Then the boys really start to shine in math and science. Achievement levels are pretty much reversed by the time college rolls around.

I could write a book about how my boys were treated in school vs. how the girls were treated by the teachers. Ultimately it meant that the girls stayed in public school where they were in honors classes and the boys were both sent to a Jesuit College Prep school where they got an even better education than the girls were getting in so-called "honors." Unfortuneately there was no comparable private school for the girls. That's why they had to stay with the public education, but they got the best offered. It worked out great.

[Muleteam1]

>>I never ever saw more than 5% females in my engineering classes.<<

LOL. Your comment reminded me of my biology and geology classrooms of many years ago when, to my then-youthful dismay, I found that the very few females who went into these fields of study were, as we say out here in west Texas, as plain as a mud fence. Could there be a stigma attached to girls entering the sciences? A working career in biology seeing young graduates come and go would seem to indicate to me that not much has changed.

Muleteam1

[afraidfortherepublic]

I have a funny story about the letters PE.

Years ago when my husband was working for an engineering company that built machinery for undersea pipelines (oil), everyone was at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. It's a very high stress atmosphere there, as all the businessmen jockey to get their products noticed by the major oil companies.

One of my husband's patents had earned "Engineered Product of the Year" from the show organizers, so there was a lot of excitement around our booth and not enough people to talk to everybody. Several engineers and upper management types (all PhDs) from Shell Oil's Netherlands group came over to scope out the featured invention, and the President of our company asked one of the most experienced salesmen to explain the new products to these VIPs.

The salesman looked uncharacteristically uncomfortable and was really sweating the moment. Afterwards he took the President aside and pleaded, "Jerry, don't ever do that to me again -- leave me alone to field questions from those Shell PhDs."

Jerry answered, "Why not, for G--'s sake. You're a Petroleum Engineer from LSU. Who's better qualified to deal with those guys?"

The salesman sputtered, "Petroleum Engineer? Sh-t! That PE means Physical Education! I played linebacker for LSU."

[getitright]

It was "pig slaughter" in my neighborhood.

And you did not want to be carrying the ball when someone hollered "hogpile!"

[doxteve]

The only way to resolve the disparities would seem to be to remove the girls from the public schools for the next 20 years. That way the oppressed minority (males) will be in a better position to be "made whole".

The best answer would be to get boys out of public schools and into boys schools. I don't know anything personal about you, muawiyah, but your sarcasm puts you in the radical feminist camp.

[doxteve]

The boys are doing exactly what they want to do. That is not getting indoctrinated into an increasingly liberal BS academic system. Seems the boys are still smarter.

That's true. We men have to get smarter too and get our boys into schools that will give them plenty of shop time to learn the things mechanical and electrical that interest them, instead of how to play the feminist political games they are now being taught.

[briant]

One fact explains why educators are ignoring boys' needs: You can't address a problem that you don't admit exists.

Yeah, especially if you created problem. lmao.

It's also funny how much girls have improved. Yeah right, that's why they had to give points on the SAT. Let's dumb all the kids down, especially the boys, then act upset about it.

[GladesGuru]

Yeah - and remember to issue the frying pans and collect their shoes on the way out the school door.

Opps - did I really say that? Look out, 'cause what was said as sarcasm may well become policy. Think of all the contract money on the frying pan contracts. Why they will only cost the taxpayers $587 each - less than the infamous bomber toilet seats.

I can see the UTD types slavering right now.

Perhaps I should have posted a "drool alert" before mentioning UTD - sorry 'bout that.

[JoeSchem]

Let's rip away the mask here. Liberalism and feminism are just facades for the plain truth that many women in this country have become anti-men over the past few decades, and the antagonism starts early. And it's that, not 'misunderstanding' about how brains are wired, that explains why today's female teachers are failing boys.

[VermiciousKnid]

I can beat that:

At my kids' (Catholic) school, the school nurse (who is a Public School District employee) has the final say over whether or not the little tykes can go outside for recess after lunch.

According to her, if it is over 80 degrees outside, the children are in Mortal Danger and are not permitted to go outside. Ditto if the tempurature dips below the Nearly Arctic 40 degrees.

Forget going outside even in the mildest misty drizzle, and Hell would freeze over before they'd let them go outside with the Awful and Deadly SNOW on the ground.

I can't STAND this woman, and I really wish the diocese had listened when I warned them not to allow public school employees into their school.

Regards,