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On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:23:41 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote: "Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:21:35 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:40:57 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote: "As Sommers understood, it is boys' aggressive and rationalist nature - redefined by educators as a behavioral disorder - that's getting so many of them in trouble in the feminized schools. Their problem: they don't want to be girls." It is not just a boy/girl thing. Public schools want to dumb everyone down to the level of the insipid assholes who run the public school system. If some kid does start to show creativity or finds themselves bored with this dull gray regimen they immediately get labelled ADD and get drugged into submission. That's not true at all. I think where pubic schools have lost their way is that they are required to develop and expand beyond their basic task - teaching readin', writin' and 'rithmatic. We've got music, sports, class about diversity, class about health, class about everything else except what we should be teaching them. The simple truth is that we're trying to make 5,6,7,8th graders into mini-adults instead of just letting them be kids and allowing them to learn what they need to learn. When you and I were in school, we had the readin', writin' and 'rithmatic plus gym, and music and shop. And Health Ed. at least one semester. And if you failed to get the program, you got to repeat the next year. Now, we have closed almost all shop classes and fail to hold anybody back. Parents sue if the kid is held back, and without shop classes, 40% of the kids get out of school knowing little about anything. Lots drop out. The administrators in the late 60's decided everyone should go to college to learn a career, and that is totally wrong! Now you have bored kids, that do not pay attention, and you can not discipline as their self esteem will be hurt. So they drop out of school, with no marketable skills. FWIW, my school just finished the rebuilding/redesign of the shop classroom. All the electric saws, drill presses, sanding machines, lathes, etc. are gone. They have been replaced by computer stations. The shop teacher is totally disgusted. |
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