Struggling School-Age Boys

Submitted by WakeUp on Wed, 2008-09-10 16:23

The subtitle of this article is appropriately called "A new study says parents are right to worry about their sons."

The author points out that instead over-diagnosing boys with ADHD, prescribing medication and placing them in special ed, there are other methods. She suggests it would be helpful for educators to realize that boys have a hands on, visual and active learning style. Sometimes restless boys who are treated as "bad" really just need more free activities and options.

Closing statements from the article: "Let's take a moment, before the school year gets any farther underway, and ask ourselves whether we are raising and educating our boys in a way that respects their natural development. And if we are not, let's figure out how we can bring our family life and our schools back into line."

One other point: Compare this article with the If boys will be boys, men will beat women article which calls for schools to single out boys and put them in special programs which treat them all like potential woman-beaters.

There are so many different attitudes about how boys develop in school.

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Actually as I already said, it's not a boys' problem. It's an American problem. Feminism destroyed America economically, and, as I predicted, in the coming economic crisis women will suffer much more than men:

Women take harder hit in weakening job market

As unemployment numbers rise, women and minorities are disproportionally affected, according to a review of August unemployment numbers by a number of think tanks.

The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) found the unemployment rate for women jumped from 4.6 percent to 5.3 percent between July and August — a 15 percent increase, the most dramatic one-month increase since 1975.

Women are more likely than are men to feel they are falling behind economically, and women are much more likely than are men to be worried and concerned about their economic prospects for the future.

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/7278/women-take-harder-hit-in-weakening-job-market/

And that's only the beginning.

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Single men is the only social group benefited from feminism. Article here.

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Submitted by nbdspcl on Thu, 2008-09-11 01:50

...that white, middle class women can't be a victim of, or that white males can't be blamed for? Apparently not!

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Submitted by RandomMan on Thu, 2008-09-11 16:39