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To: Road Walker who wrote (293102)	7/7/2006 3:40:54 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576887

But the predominant issues for them," wrote Sara Mead, who based her conclusions in the study on decades of government statistics, "are race and class, not gender." Mead's conclusions echo those of Prof. Caryl Rivers of Boston University and Prof. Rosalind Chait Barnett of Brandeis. "White suburban boys," they wrote in The Washington Post earlier this year, "are not dropping out of school, avoiding college or lacking in verbal skills ... among whites, the gender composition of colleges is pretty balanced. ... In Ivy League colleges, men still outnumber women." Yeah, I've seen a similar article recently. I maybe could buy into some of her opinions.......and let me emphasize.......most of what she says are her own opinions.........if it weren't for the fact that in 1970 60% of all students attending college were boys and 40% girls but by 2000, that ratio had completely turned around so that its now 60% girls and 40% boys. Furthermore, sometime in the past ten years, more girls were enrolled in grad school than boys. She also explains the boys trailing test scores in the lower grades by blaming it on poverty. So my question to Ms. Warner.......are there no girls who come from poverty? And if poverty is such an incredible handicap, shouldn't its effects be equally felt by the girls as well as the boys? The truth is John I am of the growing belief that there are some women in education who are pleased with the girl turnaround and don't want to cop to what's happening with the the boys. In fact, I believe a teaching bias has developed among some of them........I think that's why more boys are labeled with learning disabilities and diagnosed with ADHD and ADD. Just for the record........this last paragraph is anecdotal but the rest is based on facts.