Public School Tries Military-Style Discipline

With all the talk recently about boys and education--mainly, how boys require more physical activity--I thought that this article from Christian Science Monitor was both relevant and important. It reports on the first public school to adopt military-style discipline for students, and it is, of course, controversial. However, the school officials promise it will not to be one of the "boot camp" schools about which we've heard so much lately. The focus is going to be on education, discipline, and physical activity. Although this sounds particularly good for boys' education (we've all heard about how boys learn better when physical activity is involved), the article only quotes female students (and the parents of female students). I'll be writing an oped letter to point that out to them (e-mail oped@csps.com... you must include your name and address if the letter is to be considered for publication).

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