Soon the college pool will be down to 40% nationally, so girls wtih higher grades are being rejected.
Brian Jacob (Harvard) said it’s not that boys are dumber, but they don’t pay attention, they’re disorganized, and they are reluctant to ask for help.
John Tierney (today’s NYTimes Op-Ed) suggests that schools should become more boy-friendly.
What do you think?
Billy
I meant: The pool of college applicants will be only 40% boys…
i think we should lower college costs
will that make more boys get in to college?
Maybe have Wal-Mart colleges, where the profs and janitors don’t have a health plan. And the college makes as much in a week as the profs make in a lifetime…
Maybe have Wal-Mart colleges, where the profs and janitors don’t have a health plan. And the college CEO makes as much in a week as the profs make in a lifetime.
I suggest lowering the cost for male students to get that gender ratio up to 1:1.
Hee hee! I love sexism!
I suggest getting rid of affirmative action alltogether.
If I have the choice between an exceptional white male, and an average black female, and I choose the white male, nothing should be made of it…he was better, he got the position…
But that’s not what this is about. They’re rejecting BETTER female students so they can enlist (that’s probably not the right word) more males just to get the ratio up.
Big corporations do the same with employees. It’s all about being ethnically diverse, yo. Everyone is the same, but we’re all unique.
I agree…not everyone should get equal rights! er, they should, I guess, technically, but it should be based not on the color of their skin, but the content of their character.
Hiring the underqualified black woman instead of the overqualified white male is racist…in my not so humble opinion.
I think that all schools should be made more ‘child friendly’. At the moment they (at least in the UK) are the antithesis of childhood. Kids are made to sit still and listen/write/read for long periods of time (although I think this is getting better for the younger ones) when this is totally not how they are naturally (especially boys). Children should be empowered to learn in a way that more invovles their natural energy, enthusiasm and curiosity. Through more real life experiments, more computer interaction, more working together with other children.
Make schools more children-friendly (instead of geared around teachers), that’s what I say.
(And school uniforms - yuck!)
Cathy
Of course it’s racist. It’s a bunch of politically correct merde de taureau, if you will pardon my French.
Everyone knows people should be hired based on ability and qualifications. Oh no! I just discriminated against people who aren’t qualified and lack ability!
The whole concept of affirmative action just infuriates me, though, because sometimes, they do take the underqualified Latino dumbass over overqualified white kids
Cathy,
In order to save time on this one I think we should register a failure to agree now. ;-)
Nao
Funny how this thread got jacked by a discussion of race issues, by the boys who are given the advantage by this affirmative action.
This has NOTHING to do with race, only gender.
You have affirmative action in the title though
as a hermaphrodite, i’m indifferent.
Affirmative action means giving preferential treatment to BOYS, even though their scores are not as high as the scores of girls.
It is easily compared to race…sometimes the underqualified female is chosen over the well qualified male, just because she’s a chick.