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Subject: Boys, we can't let them win.

I just find it funny that the article goes into all this detail about how there is bias towards young boys for "not looking as attentive" in the "traditional grade school class room". To me it seems like a problem with the school system, not boys.

Also this article is about girls getting better grades than boys. Grades are not the be all end all mark of intelligence, not even close.

I'm not sure what the point of the article is. It lacks substance.

  • 01.06.2013 10:39 PM PDT

Guys have two heads. Girls have one.

  • 01.06.2013 10:40 PM PDT

Posted by: Gaara444
Put them in rooms with hot female teachers. [/quote]

Hmmmm. You sure they will still learn the material?[/quote]Had a hot English teacher, I get moved to Honors classes because of good focus. WIN!!![/quote]

Good way to focus and the girls will be all jealous, silly girls.[/quote]I go to a all boy school. :-([/quote]

Even the teachers are all male?
NO!!!

  • 01.06.2013 10:40 PM PDT

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Posted by: Gaara444
Put them in rooms with hot female teachers.
And what of those not... interested in women?
We have to please the majority. If it really bothers you, we'll put up posters of sexy half naked men in the room.
But putting pictures of myself everywhere... Wouldn't the burning envy only distract the class even more?

  • 01.06.2013 10:41 PM PDT

"Life is constantly fleeting from your grasp even from the very day it's bestowed upon you, but the shadow of death is always there, waiting for its chance to take you away."

"Even though many may not think so, ignorance and innocence are one and the same. The only difference is that one sounds nicer."

"I once knew a man who spent his entire life contemplating where we go after our death....it's a shame he realized it a second too late to tell anyone."

I...don't care much since this doesn't affect me.

  • 01.06.2013 10:41 PM PDT


Posted by: EPANDEMIC
I just find it funny that the article goes into all this detail about how there is bias towards young boys for "not looking as attentive" in the "traditional grade school class room". To me it seems like a problem with the school system, not boys.

Also this article is about girls getting better grades than boys. Grades are not the be all end all mark of intelligence, not even close.

I'm not sure what the point of the article is. It lacks substance.


School system is crap. But some students don't even try, like they're cool with failing.

  • 01.06.2013 10:41 PM PDT


Posted by: NinjaLord77

Posted by: XxMaximumPainxX
Stop making me take bull-blam!- math classes when I'm going into law


This thread is mainly referring to boys in elementary and middle school but yeah I agree. I had to take classes that had nothing to do with my field.


oh, well my apologies

  • 01.06.2013 10:47 PM PDT


Posted by: NinjaLord77

Posted by: EPANDEMIC
I just find it funny that the article goes into all this detail about how there is bias towards young boys for "not looking as attentive" in the "traditional grade school class room". To me it seems like a problem with the school system, not boys.

Also this article is about girls getting better grades than boys. Grades are not the be all end all mark of intelligence, not even close.

I'm not sure what the point of the article is. It lacks substance.


School system is crap. But some students don't even try, like they're cool with failing.


This is true, though I didn't try much in school myself. I didn't fail but i didn't push myself to get the highest grades possible. Yeah there are some kids who really just couldn't care less but most just aren't challenged. Like in my case, school stopped being a challenge after like 2nd maybe 3rd grade. After that I had pretty much figured the system out. After you get the basics down of all the core subjects, every subsequent year is just a slightly more complex version of what you did last year. And standardized test I could pass regardless of whether or not I actually paid attention in the class. They're easy. Case in point I butchered my GPA my Freshman year of High School by testing into Advanced French 2 when I had only taken half of regular French 1. In fact I BSed the placement test so well they wouldn't let me drop down to regular French 2 or retake French 1 because they were convinced because of my score the reason I was failing the class was because I wasn't trying, not because I couldn't speak a lick of French.

The school system in America is awful. It's stops being a challenge far too early. Too much emphasis is placed on standardized test scores which are a terrible indication of whether or not you know what you're talking about. And probably worst of all, there's very little learning going on, just a whole lot of memorization. And yes there's a huge difference.

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Posted by: GruntRebellion15
Let's oversimplify the "issue" and blame yolo.


That devious YOLO. Destroying education.

We must focus on getting people extra lives.

  • 01.06.2013 10:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mr Pinata
You want a real answer? The way schools teach currently is catered towards the female gender, not in that they get preferential treatment or anything, but they way people are taught in schools resonates more with the females than males as males learn more with a kinetic style of teaching.

Unfortunately this style of teaching isn't widely used and even looked down upon by some as it looks like you're playing more than your learning to an observer in some cases.

You just learned that from the article...

OT: I've always considered most women to be smarter than men for the most part anyways, though men are more rational people, i just think women are more focused and driven to succeed then men are.

  • 01.06.2013 10:57 PM PDT

-I was here

statistically, guys perform better at hands on things(practice) while women do better at things that are more not hands on(theory), and in school, very little of the material is hands on, other than working math problems and the occasional science project. Basically, for guys to get better grades, they'd have to change the way things are taught to be much more hands on experiments and projects, and less from the book theory type stuff.

  • 01.06.2013 11:03 PM PDT

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