tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3962126743419095030..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Why Are Boys Failing at School?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-28130739816914123282013-01-24T03:07:26.594-08:002013-01-24T03:07:26.594-08:00Thank you, Ann for an excellent analysis of the pr...Thank you, Ann for an excellent analysis of the problem.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-61484305858249104482013-01-23T19:15:08.825-08:002013-01-23T19:15:08.825-08:00The problem is more complex than school curriculum... The problem is more complex than school curriculum or boy chemistry. The problem involves two entirely different treatments of Males and Females beginning as early as one year of age and increases in differential treatment through adulthood. This is creating the growing Male Crisis in the information age. The belief Males should be strong allows more aggressive treatment of Males beginning as early as one year. This is coupled with much "less" kind, stable, verbal interaction and less mental/emotional/social support, knowledge, and skills for fear of coddling. This increases over time and continued by society from peers and teachers to others in society. This creates more social/emotional distance from parents and other authority figures who have knowledge; higher average stress that hurts learning and motivation to learn; more activity due to need for stress relief; more defensiveness and wariness of others further hindering emotional and social growth; and higher muscle tension (creating more pressure on pencil and tighter grip) that hurts writing and motivation to write. It creates much lag in development creating a learned sense of helplessness in school. This differential treatment continues on through adulthood, almost fixing many Males onto roads of failure and more escape into more short-term areas of enjoyment. Also the giving of love based on achievement that many Males thus falling behind academics then turns their attention toward video games and sports, risk taking to receive small measures of love/honor not received in the classroom. <br /><br />Since girls by differential treatment are given more positive, continual, and close mental/emotional/social/ support verbal interaction and care from an early age onward this creates quite the opposite outcome for girls compared with boys. The lower the socioeconomic bracket and time in that bracket the more amplified the differential treatment from a young age and increased in more differentiated over time.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-35367461136870695692012-07-30T08:22:13.750-07:002012-07-30T08:22:13.750-07:00Very effective material, thank you for this post.Very effective material, thank you for this post.sitehttp://somdml.courses.asu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/User:Laurencezarate66noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-86996897502353175442010-11-14T09:01:13.363-08:002010-11-14T09:01:13.363-08:00TO: Dr. Schneiderman
RE: Wiki? 'Objective'...TO: Dr. Schneiderman<br />RE: Wiki? 'Objective'???!?!?!<br /><br /><i>Actually, I had thought that the Wiki link would at least seem to be objective. Apparently, it was not the case.</i> -- Stuart Schneiderman<br /><br />NOT BLOODY LIKELY!!!!!<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Chuck(le)<br />[What they are telling you can be important. What they are NOT telling you can be VITAL. -- CBPelto]Chuck Peltohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00407516830005550495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81288646268008491032010-11-14T07:38:32.965-08:002010-11-14T07:38:32.965-08:00Actually, I had thought that the Wiki link would a...Actually, I had thought that the Wiki link would at least seem to be objective. Apparently, it was not the case.<br /><br />I do hope that more parents join you in becoming aware of what schools are doing to boys. I have spoken with quite a few who are more likely to blame their sons than the school system.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-2489187310604097532010-11-14T07:02:03.346-08:002010-11-14T07:02:03.346-08:00I've followed Christina for a while, and thank...I've followed Christina for a while, and thank God for her and people like her. To get good credible information on someone or something controversial, Wiki is a poor choice. A few years ago, Ms. Sommers was part of a panel where she was cautioning that the data did not support increasing gender specific drug and alcohol programs, and after a few attempts to prevent Christina from making her case, Professor Jay Wade (professor of psychology at Fordham University) delighted the crowd with "Shut the f*** up, b****." He reportedly is an expert in "listening skills."<br /><br />I've raised a boy and a girl, and it matches my experience that sending your boy to a public school (or even private) is a form of child abuse.<br /><br />In his book "How I accidently joined the Conservative Conspiracy", the author Harry Stein confesses to have been a liberal before becoming a parent, and has a chapter on the difference of his boy and girl in school. <br /><br />I am a woman, and I think the war against boys and men has gone on for too long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-14767607543364331662010-11-13T14:53:01.029-08:002010-11-13T14:53:01.029-08:00Clearly, her ideas have been controversial. And ye...Clearly, her ideas have been controversial. And yet, when the Daily Beast runs a report that strongly confirms Sommers' analysis... while ignoring her work completely... that seems to me to be relevant.<br /><br />Surely, her opponents will do everything in their power to discredit her ideas. Yet, the evidence of the experience of boys in the educational system today seems to point in her favor.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-31749299041385564042010-11-13T13:38:03.929-08:002010-11-13T13:38:03.929-08:00I checked out the Wiki link about Christina Hoff S...I checked out the Wiki link about Christina Hoff Sommers. If one looks past her ideas, as presented by Wikipedia, the comments tend to give a beat down to the lady and seem to discredit her writing. Do you have any comments or ideas on this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com