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	Name:	jawjagal -
	Subject:	I'm told that's not quite it.
	Date:	12/7/2005 2:03:14 PM

I homeschooled my #2. Because he was squirrely. It was my responsibility to get him 'school ready.' That meant being able to sit still mostly all day because schools want boys to act like girls. What does that mean? Color neatly within the lines, keep your hands to yourself, write neatly, sit still for hours, yadda, yadda, girl stuff.

I am a teacher. I have taught for almost 20 years. My opinion is that elementary teachers love little girls and tolerate little boys. My oldest son pleased all his teachers and never had a problem. #2 comes in the world with the attitude,"What did I do?" One funny story I can tell you about how his mind thinks is: "The middle school dance was great. I want to go out and buy something at the next dance to do what somebody did at the last dance." "What was that?" I asked. "We've got to get a stink fart bomb so I throw it in the middle of the dance floor!" Now as funny as that seems and such an old school thing you read about or knew about growing up, boys can't be boys anymore. I had to try to tell him how much trouble he would get into doing that. All he saw was how funny it was. Boys march to a different drummer - usually. #! was just an unusual son. #2 is mainstream. By the time they reach middle and high school, boys' behaviors are much more accepted (not the criminal kind, but the mischevious kind - they are punished, but aren't looked down upon like elementary teachers do...afterall, one is finally seeing MEN in the middle and high schools modeling, but who do they have to listen to in elementary school - WOMEN!) and if you have a good teacher, directed in a positive way.

I just wish boys could do more hands on learning and not such book learning to get ready for the TESTS they give 3 x's a year - every year!!!!!!! Boys minds are just wired differently. I wish schools would accept that.