Links on Boys and School

[selenite0]

The New Republic has an article on boys falling behind in school. (Link to part 2)

Recommended solutions? Keeping on the boys to make them turn homework in on time, and giving them comics to read. Sounds good to me.

A teacher writes about the book Raising Cain and muses on how competitive behavoir in boys can produce good results.

Comments

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

I was particularly struck by the line about (paraphrasing due to laziness) "...liberal parents, who vowed never to give their children violent toys, only to see their sons sculpt lumps of modeling clay into submachine guns."

My dad was one of those parents, and I was one of those kids. I became one of those parents, and damn but both my boys were also those kids.