"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This article is a crock. It is not set up for girls; it is set up for the lowest common denominator, and they aren’t just girls!
I don't know what the trends are in humanities and arts programs, but engineering is about 75 percent men and nursing is almost 100 percent women. The hard sciences (mathematics, physics, chemistry) are a toss-up but mostly men.
Is anyone really surprised?
One of the many advantages to home schooling is, I can teach my boys one way and my girls the other. And no ritalin!
[Groups like the AAUW are right that there is bias in American education, but theyre not about to admit the truth: It is systematically biased in favor of girls. Instead, theyre still turning out reports with titles like Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls.
As former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch said a few years ago, When will it be fair? When women are 60 percent or 75 percent of college enrollments? Perhaps it will be fair when there are no men at all.]
To understand this you have to learn to “think” like a liberal. For the past 5000 years, men have had all the power. So it’s only fair that women have the power for the next 5000 years.
Males need to get to business and kick serious arse, and quit with the mad search for excuses.
So the deck is stacked against them. So what? Did deeper and embrace the odds. It’s liberating in many ways.
Charge!
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The idea that girls are the victims of sex discrimination in American
schools is so preposterous, it is barely worth discussing.
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Not according to the Future First Lady, Michelle Obama.
See linked thread below.
Semi-Literate Michelle Obama Got By On Affirmative Action
The Patriot Room ^ | July 1, 2008 | Bill Dupray
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2039501/posts
See post 37 on the linked thread for all the aweful
discrimination and heavy-lifting Mrs. Obama had to
endure before getting her high-$$$$$ PR job.