Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School

Re:Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at S... by pessimizer on Monday July 01, 2013 @01:13PM (#5972049)

Also historically, many, many children have been thrown out of school or deemed ineducable because they couldn't sit still in school and behave themselves.

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Re:Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at S... by derleth on Monday July 01, 2013 @01:47PM (#5972331)

Or they never went to school in the first place.

Similarly, the average high schooler was better back then because the average person stopped their education at the eighth grade, if not sooner.

(Note to non-Americans: In the US, high school runs from ninth to twelfth grade, usually named freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years.)

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Re:Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at S... by samatman on Monday July 01, 2013 @02:08PM (#5972498)

More to the point, the children/teenagers in question range from 13 to 18 years of age. I gather that "12th grade" is meaningless in much of the world.

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Re:Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at S... by ivix on Monday July 01, 2013 @04:38PM (#5973420)

Thanks. It was kind of cute how the american terms were explained using more american terms.

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Re:Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at S... by derleth on Monday July 01, 2013 @05:38PM (#5973752)

Elsewhere it is posted when people begin school in the US. The rest is arithmetic.

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Re:Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at S... by derleth on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @05:18AM (#5983328)

> Elsewhere it is posted when people begin school in the US. The rest is arithmetic.

This is true, you know. Or are you saying only Americans can do arithmetic?

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