Girls get extra school help while boys get Ritalin

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

[thoughtomator]

Females have the advantage in college acceptance at 56% and rising. When college attendance is 80% female, and another 5 years' worth of American boys are neurologically neutered, will that then be enough to convince you there's something wrong with this situation?

[RGSpincich]

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.

[netmilsmom]

Some of this has to do with the parents as well. While mom is going to aerobics and dad is working his a$$ off to pay for the trips to Disney World, no one has time for Johnny.
(or Dad is absent altogether).
There was a kid in my daughter's class last year. He is on Ritalin. Sweet kid too. He was truly overmedicated. He would walk into the class and fall asleep. He came out of it around 11, just in time for lunch. He would bounce off the walls until 2 when he got his next dose. He would then fall asleep before pick-up at 3. The parents would carry him out and liked it this way.
He is repeating kindergarten this year.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

You mustabeen one o' them smart kids.

[annyokie]

Haha! Girls still had to wear dress to school when I was in eighth grade. What was with all you guys dropping pencils and other objects that rolled on the floor all the time? ; )

[Pro-Bush]

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".

Better yet, There should be an affirmative action clause here, mandating that 50% of Honor Roll students must be male. That way, nobodys feelings get hurt. </sacrasm

[RnMomof7]

They have structured the schools so that a boy can not grow into a man. Boys must now accommodate female learning styles and adapt to a female environment .

That can only be done by medicating normal male behavior.

I raised 5 boys.. When my youngest was around 9 he was getting picked on because he was small for age, I told him that if the kid hit or pushed him again he had my permission to punch him

Needless to say I was called in for a conference after the confrontation was over.The teacher said they "like" students to come to the teacher for mediation" . I told her he did exactly what his mom had to him to do and now the problem was solved and it was.

[lelio]

How many kids are on the honor roll? If the honor roll is made up of the top 15% of the students and there's 200 kids in the class that's 30 kids. The difference between a 50/50 split and 80/20 is 15 students vs 6. So just 9 honor roll gender defections have to occur, or around 5% of the school's population.

That difference could be made up if you had 4 sets of smart twins. Yada yada yada, it really doesn't mean much until the raw numbers are published for this year and previous ones.

If there's a general decline I'll say the parents have a beef. But traditionally girls have matured earlier and get better grades. Its just a fact of life.

[dogbyte12]

Females have the advantage in college acceptance at 56% and rising

What is going to happen is that there will not be enough college educated guys for college educated women, and they will have to work for 50 years to support their high school grad husbands, and their kids.

Feminists never thought too hard about the saying: Be careful for what you wish, because it may come true.

[Alberta's Child]

"Kill the Guy With the Ball" -- LOL.

Hasn't anyone else ever played "Asses Up" in elementary school?

[Mears]

I go way back to the forties and one of the boys tossed a dead skunk into a junior high classroom. God,I still remember it.

This kid turned out okay,though,and without drugs,just a good boot in the ass from his father.

[RoughDobermann]

Almost all history centers around male leaders.

Do you think that might be because the vast majority of leaders have been male?

Females have to contend with glass ceilings and earn less than males.

The last I heard, pay had been equalized?

Maybe if boys kept their pants up past their cracks they'd be able to keep their grades up as well.

Are you series? Every teenage girl I see has those stupid hip-hugger jeans on...

[Alberta's Child]

Even if 100% of the best-performing students are females, there is no doubt in my mind that 95% of the CEOs in this country will always be male.

[muawiyah]

I was considered too rambunctious for the National Honor Society (at what became Jane Pauly's high school). Still, I found that it was the correct attitude to get me through the Infantry.

[Pro-Bush]

They have structured the schools so that a boy can not grow into a man.

Boys must now accommodate female learning styles and adapt to a female environment .

No good.

Glad your 9 yr old popped em' one!

[thoughtomator]

I don't think that 95% of CEOs are presently male. You have a source for a gender breakdown of CEOs?

[TomServo]

What a stupid thing to say

And grammatically incorrect, too. ;-)

[lelio]

When college attendance is 80% female

.... old lelio's going to be headin back to school!

I never ever saw more than 5% females in my engineering classes. I figure those 50%+ figures are made up of people going into nursing and child psych classes. Perhaps there's more of those students?

[thoughtomator]

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.

[Pro-Bush]

Goes to show, rambunctious can be a good thing!