UK: Girls 'under too much pressure'

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2009-01-10 04:39

Article here. Excerpt:

'Incoming Girls School Association head Jill Berry said parents were worried about achieving a balance between school achievement and happiness.

Mrs Berry also said that girls could put themselves under a lot of pressure.

A poll of 1,000 parents surveyed for the association said their top concern was their daughter's education.

Girls tend to outperform boys in all stages of their education, and this can lead schools to assume all girls will do well.

Mrs Berry said: "There is no doubt that many mothers and fathers are worried about getting the balance right between their daughters realising their academic potential while at the same time being happy and safe."'

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Pressure to succeed, do well in school... this is bad? Boys should be only so much in terms of expectation. Seems society is much more comfortable with ladism than ladetteism.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2009-01-11 00:42

I guess the mydaughter.co.uk website that the article mentions at the end is girls' reward for doing so well in school to the extent that they "tend to outperform boys in all stages of their education" (also from the article).

Sarcasm aside, as long as mydaughter.co.uk exists without an equivalent page for boys, there is a problem.

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Submitted by Vince on Sun, 2009-01-11 06:29

Vince is right. Anybody who believes that girls outperform boys in all aspects of their education is sorely mistaken. Countless studies have proven that males tend to outperform females in the analytical subjects; those based on math and science. It's interesting how Larry Summers was chastised for speaking a truth about the abilities of the male mind, while this article is clearly spewing misandric lies and no one cares. I suppose compared to a lot of the problems on our list, this one is trivial.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
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Submitted by xtrnl on Sun, 2009-01-11 22:14

I checked out that website Vince. Its sad that boys have become casualties in the feminist war against men.

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Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2009-01-11 22:26