Separate schools for girls and boys, your thoughts and opinions?

Do you think boys or girls are being shortchanged in schools?" Boys, definitely. Boys are the ones who are being shortchanged in schools nationwide these days, and this has been happening for more than 2 decades now.

Title IX shortchanges able, skilled, deserving male candidates of the opportunities, funding, and facilities that they so need, just because the 3-pronged approach of Title IX is designed in a way that it disregards male student interests. Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers also wrote a book about it. Here's a gist of what she says in her book: "Sommers (Who Stole Feminism?) pulls no punches in this critique of the current crop of "crisis" studies about boys.

Methodically analyzing and dismantling what she calls the "myth of shortchanged girls" as well as the "new and equally corrosive fiction that boys as a group are disturbed"Atheories she calls "speculative psychology"Ashe bolsters her findings with extensive footnotes and data from such sources as the U.S. Department of Education. Sommers's conclusions are compelling and deserve an unbiased hearing, particularly since they are at odds with conventional wisdom that paints girls as victimized and boys as emotionally repressed. "Routinely regarded as protosexists, potential harassers and perpetuators of gender inequity, boys live under a cloud of censure," she writes, going on to show how they are also falling behind academically in an educational system that currently devotes more attention to the needs of girls.

Pointing out that "Mother Nature is not a feminist," she also dismisses the current vogue to "feminize" boys, calling social androgyny a "well-intentioned but ill-conceived reform." Instead, Sommers champions "the reality that boys and girls are different, that each sex has its distinctive strengths and graces." Sure to kick up dust in the highly charged gender debates, Sommers's book is at its best when coolly debunking theories she contends are based on distorted research and skewed data, but descends into pettiness when she indulges in mudslinging at her opponents.

Perhaps the most informed study yet in this area, this engrossing book sheds light on a controversial subject. It deserves close reading by parents, educators and anyone interested in raising healthy, successful children of both sexes. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The data show, for the first time, that gender disparities in teacher grades start early and uniformly favor girls. In every subject area, boys are represented in grade distributions below where their test scores would predict." "'The trajectory at which kids move through school is often influenced by a teacher's assessment of their performance, their grades. … It's also typically the grades you earn in school that are weighted the most heavily in college admissions.

So if grade disparities emerge this early on, it's not surprising that by the time these children are ready to go to college, girls will be better positioned.'" http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/why... Millions more women than men attend and graduate from college. Https://www.aei.org/publication/stunning...

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