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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (66342)	12/12/1999 9:13:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Respond to of 108807

Lizzie, most girls know that a baker's dozen is 13.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (66342)	12/12/1999 9:17:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

<<I am looking for any evidence that working parents are the root cause of all these school shootings - any hard facts - and if somebody can produce those then ok.>> Did someone at Feelings actually suggest that the school shootings are related to mothers working, Lizzie? I can see why in a way--children who are unsupervised after school do have more opportunities to get into trouble, and often have less moral guidance than children whose mothers stay home. Personally, I think that school shootings are much more related to the prevalence of guns in this society, mostly untreated mental illness in teenagers, and the general culture of violence in America. Oh, and Christianity--all the school shooters have been church goers except the one shooter who mowed down a prayer group because they had taunted him unmercifully. It would be interesting to see what percentage of them were spanked, wouldn't it?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (66342)	12/13/1999 1:27:00 AM
From: Michael M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"Scraggler" ???

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (66342)	12/13/1999 3:35:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

On women and mathematics. There are data that show a huge deficiency of women in the highest percentile. Historically, there are a few brilliant female mathematicians, but they are much underrepresented. There is a serious NSF effort to increase female mathematical performance. See "Barbie Cambridge." There is stunning evidence that working mothers' kids sometimes get shot in school. No stay-at-home moms' home-schooled kids have yet been shot in school. I think we might as well write off schools as a failed experiment.