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To: cosmicforce who wrote (47677)	2/2/2008 3:07:16 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541778

I could not agree more. As you know, I admired the work done in NY where they had boys actually starting school a little later- since they develop later. The boys did just as well as the girls. Unfortunately the program didn't survive a civil rights challenge. I have long thought (and said) that we have medicalized masculinity. But in order to get there, you first have to admit boys and girls, and women and men, are different. How can we not? But people don't want to. So you get what we have. Boys need a lot more activity. They need to be able to be physical. In an English class, that means you have to build in some group work, so the boys can move around. If boys tussle, you don't refer them to the office if it's obviously good natured, as it almost always is. I have one class of Sophomores that is 2/3's boys. They need more activities than my more balanced classes, but they learn at the same rate, and they are lovely lovely students. Video games worry me a lot. Boys just aren't reading, and their scores are dropping. No matter how well we teach, if boys can't read, or won't read, we can't make up for that lack with a few hours of English a day. The girls seem to still be reading, and they are testing better, and going in larger and larger numbers to college.