Boys between the ages of 11 and 14 are not "men". They are under-sized creatures that, without adults telling them what to do, or else, become little savages.
Same sex education has had a long American tradition that has only recently changed.
Posted on 03/10/2011 10:41:56 AM PST by TopQuark
Kansas City, Missouri (Reuters) – Single-sex lunches introduced in three schools in America's heartland have helped to reduce misbehavior among students and improve eating habits, authorities said.
The Wichita, Kansas middle schools, for students aged 11 to 14 years old, started the separate lunches for boys and girls to reduce teasing, rough-housing and flirting.
"The girls really seem to like it because they get their girl time without having to worry about boys," said Michael Archibeque, principal at Pleasant Valley Middle School. "And the boys don't show off for the girls. I think it's the perfect age for this."
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I thought it was "Smear the Queer."
Not if they knew that if they went to far, not only would they get a whuppin' at school, but another one at home when the parents found out.
Of course nowadays, most parents would just sue the school district for whupping their "little angel."
Boys between the ages of 11 and 14 are not "men". They are under-sized creatures that, without adults telling them what to do, or else, become little savages.
Same sex education has had a long American tradition that has only recently changed.
I went to an all boys high school. It really cut down on boys acting-out or clowning for girls. It didn’t hurt either that we had strict Christian Brothers as teachers who would kick our butts if we misbehaved.
At some point, girls and boys need to interact. Single sex lunches, or schools or colleges simply delay that process. Boys and girls act inappropriately toward one another because they are figuring out how to deal with one another—there are learning pains that ultimately result in more mature relationships. Is there a certain age at which they should be separated? I don’t know. But it seems to me that separation in social settings (eg, lunch) for long periods stunts their maturity as it relates to dealing with the opposite sex.
I agree. This doesn’t solve the problem, sure it may cut out on incidents at the school, and certainly that benefits the teachers and school administrators, but schools shouldn’t be about them.
Yes Jeff that’s true. There are problems with this though.
This time of acting out, is part of the process of growth. If you strip boys from all contact from girls through high school, when do they learn to socialize with the opposite sex? When do the girls learn to socialize with the boys?
You wind up with 18 year old young men and women that have a pre-school level of understanding when it comes to the opposite sex.
I believe that there is need of some sort of discussion, so that boys and girls could explain their thoughts to each other. It would help the boys understand the girls. Frankly, it would help the girls understand the boys.
There has to be something better than raising 21 year old adults that have only a couple of years exposure to the opposite sex.
This disconnect, stands a very good chance of destroying the ability of both sexes to deal productively with members of the opposite sex.
As it is sold, it also promotes the idea that guys are inferior beings. Is this really something we want to place on the boy’s backs, and into the minds of young women?
Creeping shariah. Connect the dots, people.
BTW Jeff, sorry if that made it seem like you were supporting something you weren’t. I didn’t mean to infer that.
I must have missed that part of the article.
LOL, then please ignore post #31.
Sorry. I thought this was another Northwestern University thread.
I went to an all male High School and we had plenty of contact with girls, it just wasn't at school, except for the huge dances our school would throw. I'm sure we "acted out", it just wasn't during school time.
You end up with what goes on in most conservative Muslim countries--men who are sexually immature and treat women like sex objects or degrade them well into their adult lives.
I remember some of us getting in trouble at church before some Wednesday night youth gettogether of some sort for calling it that. From that time on, we had to call it "Pick up, Smear". (Which was a fairly accurate description) From that I learned that wanton violence was perfectly acceptable at my church, as long as no one was called names.
When I was in junior high, back in the sixties, during lunch the girls and boys had to sit on opposite sides of the lunch room until 9th grade.
Starting about age thirteen, I spent the rest of my educational career pursuing and catching members of the opposite sex.
Just not during lunch until the 9th grade.
Actually, the biggest thing I remember about junior high, except for Carla’s, Peggy’s, Linda’s and Nancy’s legs, is that the people that taught at North Junior High School in Waco, TX, with the exception of Coach Amik, Mr. Ammon, and Miss Hubbard, were the grouchiest, grumpiest bunch of adults I’ve ever been around. I do have to thank Mr. Madison, Mr. Fagg (yeah, that was his real name,) Mrs. Young, Mrs. Fleming and Miss Borel for encouraging me to become a natural born outlaw who doesn’t give a damn about authority. They were jerks. Forever and a day, they were jerks.
You did? Well it wasn’t there.
It’s where this mindset will lead unless cooler heads prevail.
No! I’m not going to ignore it, you, you, you...
...friend.
Take care guy. Your point was reasoned. I admit to expanding this out to what I see as a normal condition to be expected, if these social engineers get their way.
Take care.
While I do agree that kids would come into contact with the opposite sex at times, those times could be few and far between. In some family settings they could be quite minimal.
You may disagree with me, but this is a scenario where boys and girls don’t get much face time in social settings until after high school. Then they are sent off to co-educational dorms and the sudden shock of doing anything they please while still social children.
This seems like a recipe for disaster to me.
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