Girls get extra school help while boys get Ritalin

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

[Pro-Bush]

But because schools are doing little to help boys adjust, males risk becoming second-class academic citizens

Liberals feminizing the public schools...disgusting!

[annyokie]

More recess time would solve that Ritalin issue. Of course you can't play dodge-ball in gym anymore and running around the playground is considered dangerous.

I guess there's still smoking in the boys room and dropping explosives down the plumbing.

[secret garden]

BTTT

[lelio]

investigated those numbers [ honor roll and national honor's society ] after the parents of a boy filed a complaint

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

[StatesEnemy]

Of course you can't play dodge-ball in gym anymore

Dodge ball? Us dudes would find the far field (away from nanny 'monitors') and play "Kill the guy with the ball"

[annyokie]

Hah! That was an actual activity for my brother's gym class! Who can forget kickball? If you were good you could really nail those kids you didn't like!

[bulldogs]

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

What a stupid thing to say

[CherylBower]

We called that "Smear the Queer", which is also horribly politically incorrect. I think it was a great game for the boys.

[lelio]

Well what is it? Girls make up 85% of the Honor Roll students but only 76% of the Honor Society members. If its anyone that should be complaining its the girls as they're getting shafted out of 9 percentage points of those seats.

I really doubt if the complaint had anything to do with Ritalin.

[thoughtomator]

My reaction to the article: No $hit, Sherlock.

It's way past time for mass criminal prosecutions against the teachers and industry professionals who have breached all bounds of ethics and law by illegally medicating perfectly healthy boys. There are millions of damaged children on whose behalf these criminals should, in justice, be held to account.

[randog]

Female education researchers in the audience questioned whether helping boys would mean hurting girls.

These researchers were, of course, appalled when Title IX decimated male sports.

The special efforts made by schools to steer more girls into advanced math and science classes came after powerful advocacy groups embraced the problem.

Having gone through engineering school in the 90's, I can say that this attempt to push women into the field was a failure. Many showed up, but only a few toughed it out.

[thoughtomator]

Doesn't anything strike you as odd that 79-85% of the best-performing students are female?

[Pro-Bush]

It's way past time for mass criminal prosecutions against the teachers and industry professionals who have breached all bounds of ethics and law by illegally medicating perfectly healthy boys.

It sis a crime that Ritalin is used to feminize boys, who naturally have alot of energy, and god forbid, testosterone.

[randog]

We called that "Smear the Queer"...

Same here, and there was always some kid that could throw the ball close to the speed of light (I still hate that guy).

[lelio]

Well some sex has to be higher than the other, it can't go 50-50.

It would be informative to see a distribution of the scores in boys vs girls. Perhaps all the girls are lumped near the A range while the boys are at the B. Who knows?

What percentage of college students are male / female? Isn't it closer to 50/50? Seems to me this evens itself out in the end.

[thoughtomator]

Absolutely. This is child abuse of the highest order.

[MediaMole]

So, this district just happens to have a population where only 15% of boys are honor roll students?

Statistically this should never occur. There has never been a study that has shown such a dramatic difference in intelligence between men and women.

Something is wrong with this school district. There is no way that this would occur without a major problem in the way the district deals with its students.

[Poohbah]

I guess there's still smoking in the boys room and dropping explosives down the plumbing.

Ah, memories...some of us who thought that 8th grade was the best five years of our lives...

[muawiyah]

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".

[mtbopfuyn]

Total bunk. Oh boo hoo, boys are losing ground and they don't have advocates. Just two days ago there was a thread here showing boys' SAT scores were higher than girls'. Throughout the years boys have consistantly done better in math and science than girls. Most literature is written with male characters. Almost all history centers around male leaders. Females have to contend with glass ceilings and earn less than males. Maybe if boys kept their pants up past their cracks they'd be able to keep their grades up as well.