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Ustwo · 12-10-2007, 06:47 AM

She's correct on all counts.

The education system is biased against boys, ADHD is a joke in most of the people getting the medication, and videogames do waste a ton of your potential.

Luckily for my son I've known this and I will have the means to send him to a private school as well as teach him on his own. My parents did this for me because the public school couldn't handle me, and I see the same signs in my son. They spent hours with me on homework and discipline, first to undo the damage of my first 4 school years in a public school, then to focus me and motivate me to what seemed boring and pointless. For example at age 8 I was in the bottom of my class (having convinced my teachers I wasn't able to do it) yet going to the library almost day to learn about spiders and insects at a level most people wouldn't see unless they went into invertebrate biology, on my own. My parents were unaware of this as well and it took an IQ test where they were looking for learning disabilities to discover that I didn't have a learning disability, I was just bored.

I was a bit of an extreme, but boys simply learn differently then girls, but the schools are not designed for this, mostly because for years we had well meaning idiots try to tell us that it was just society that made men different from women as well as the fact its EASIER to teach girls. Girls can learn from textbooks much sooner than boys, while boys are very hands on. Which is easier for a lazy public school union teacher to teach?

12-10-2007, 06:47 AM	#5 (permalink)
Ustwo Pissing in the cornflakes	She's correct on all counts. The education system is biased against boys, ADHD is a joke in most of the people getting the medication, and videogames do waste a ton of your potential. Luckily for my son I've known this and I will have the means to send him to a private school as well as teach him on his own. My parents did this for me because the public school couldn't handle me, and I see the same signs in my son. They spent hours with me on homework and discipline, first to undo the damage of my first 4 school years in a public school, then to focus me and motivate me to what seemed boring and pointless. For example at age 8 I was in the bottom of my class (having convinced my teachers I wasn't able to do it) yet going to the library almost day to learn about spiders and insects at a level most people wouldn't see unless they went into invertebrate biology, on my own. My parents were unaware of this as well and it took an IQ test where they were looking for learning disabilities to discover that I didn't have a learning disability, I was just bored. I was a bit of an extreme, but boys simply learn differently then girls, but the schools are not designed for this, mostly because for years we had well meaning idiots try to tell us that it was just society that made men different from women as well as the fact its EASIER to teach girls. Girls can learn from textbooks much sooner than boys, while boys are very hands on. Which is easier for a lazy public school union teacher to teach? __________________ Agents of the enemies who hold office in our own government, who attempt to eliminate our "freedoms" and our "right to know" are posting among us, I fear.....on this very forum. - host Obama - Know a Man by the friends he keeps.