tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586859.post115739155162590438..comments2023-10-08T05:10:34.219-05:00Comments on Who am I? Why am I here?: District 39: Girls' Fault that Boys Are Lagging Behind in SchoolElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573358506904053791noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586859.post-16132743930029657542022-11-26T04:27:44.065-05:002022-11-26T04:27:44.065-05:00Hello nice bloogHello nice bloogChildproofing Pembroke Pineshttps://www.babyproofexpert.com/us/baby-proofing-florida/childproofing-pembroke-pines.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586859.post-1157769736125774032006-09-08T21:42:00.000-05:002006-09-08T21:42:00.000-05:00yes, I agree that it is fruitless to insist on def...yes, I agree that it is fruitless to insist on defining male and female differences. for one thing, it is the source of all of those terrible "men are from mars, women are from venus" jokes. but more seriously, it is the source of harebrained "scientific" reasoning that has been continuously proven wrong. Isn't it interesting how an era's scientific assumptions often jibe with that era's stereotypes? I admit, I have been an enabler of the man-woman divide at times, (what woman hasn't complained about men being frustrating?), but when it comes down to it, most of that divide is socialized rather than inherent. The behaviors that people cite as distinguishing man from woman seem too complex to be so inherent (e.g. emotion versus reason). <BR/><BR/>Yes, I agree on unlimited extensions. Students need to learn how to manage their time--it is a skill that is worthwhile for life, especially as students who need extensions were often either (1) lazy or (2) too overbooked.Elainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04573358506904053791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586859.post-1157659063310917232006-09-07T14:57:00.000-05:002006-09-07T14:57:00.000-05:00"the genders truly are equal but different." how?..."the genders truly are equal but different." <BR/>how?<BR/>i am a former biology major and an m.d., and however girls and boys may differ, the overlap is greater. <BR/><BR/>when i was in public school corporal punishment was legalized in our state. i promise it did not improve education.<BR/><BR/>literature on self-expression ~ well, that depends. i was a skeptic about "invented spelling" until i read papers the first-grade teacher shared with me, and i was then persuaded. it also jibes with what i know about word recognition from learning languages like hebrew and chinese.<BR/><BR/>i have known many inner city public-school English teachers, and they all taught proper grammar and exacted classroom discipline.<BR/><BR/>back to genders differing: what about studies showing that gay men's brains overlap with women's in some functions? how is district 39 supposed to makes sure they place children with the same behaviors in the same classes, their stated goal, since they are are using "neurological differences" of girls and boys as the rationale to separate them in class?<BR/><BR/>as far as i am concerned, district 39 is enacting discriminatory practices and taking a big step backward.<BR/><BR/>however, on the subject of unlimited extensions on classwork being a bad idea, i do agree with chris.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586859.post-1157521790345266572006-09-06T00:49:00.000-05:002006-09-06T00:49:00.000-05:00Maybe we should go examine going back to single-se...Maybe we should go examine going back to single-sex schools. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/indiana/chi-ap-in-single-genderclas,1,4469528.story?coll=chi-newsap_in-hed I don't see the "separate but equal" problem, because the genders truly are equal but different. <BR/><BR/>As for the kinder, it just reflects a genuine breakdown of discipline in society as a whole. Employers complain now about how poorly their just-out-of-college employees perform - it doesn't surprise me. I could get an extension for just about anything if I wanted it - and in classes it was rare that one was ever "wrong." I think that's trickled down to the elementary level on some level. The literature I've read on teaching kids how to write is somewhat ridiculous, saying that you should just let the children write what they want in order to learn how to express - teaching them how to write in any particular way or with any particular rules may be discrimanatory against their cultural background (i.e. teaching inner-city black students standard English imposes a foreign language on their own dialect). That being said, school has gotten to ba a lot more warm, fuzzy, and cuddly lately...discipline wasn't a problem when the nuns used rulers - or so I'm told.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17292460539114226605noreply@blogger.com