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To: Taro who wrote (242819)	7/22/2005 7:08:48 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) of 1574267

It wasn't condemnation. I am saying that men need to take more of an interest in their boys......actually the ones who are not paying attention now or maybe not.......maybe that isn't the problem. Assuming I am correct and boys are slipping behind per their test scores, why do you think that is? You got any kids, ted? I guess not. Anyway, I got two boys and they have quite a few friends, all about the same age. I don't see any practical examples of the BS you present here, but then again, they don't live in the US. None of them ever slipped away on anything compared to their female "competitors". Seriously, this is no joke. American boys have been slipping behind girls in national testing for nearly a decade now. No one can explain why......some say its because too many teachers are female; some say they are not getting enough parenting from fathers [the drop coincided with the increase in productivity in the US meaning people were working longer hours]; others say the white boys believe they have a sense of entitlement and don't have to work at their grades. I didn't know about any this last year when I had to get 60 hours in the classroom. I was surprised at what I found. A third of the boys were diagnosed rightly or wrongly with ADD or ADHD.......that's a high percentage and I was told this is the norm. I know for a boy its not cool to be smart......and those who were when I was growing up hid it from everyone else. But these guys are not learning the stuff period. Very few are making good grades or grades any where close to the girls. This must be some kind of "statistics" you wannabe teachers make up while smoking whatever school teachers do smoke in our days. Sometimes your brilliance at being obnoxious gets real annoying. What I di vividly recall from school of my time, however, is that the teachers were not exactly that clever compared to the majority of pupils in my class. Since I can safely assume that the kids represented an average of the Swedish population, I thus concluded a long time ago that teachers come in way below that as for brains - or at least by means of how to utilize the functionality of same. You may or may not be right. I have never seen statistics on that subject. If you are right, then that does not bode for the educational system of Sweden. Again, that was in Sweden only and it may well be totally different in the US or up there close to the CAN boarder. I don't know. I don't know how to find that out. I assumed many teachers were fairly smart because most of them liked learning.......not geniuses but smart. But may be not. Taro

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