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Comments by Angry Harry

Penmanship There are exceptions, but here is the rule: Boys are
graphologically challenged. That males have many more problems with
penmanship than females is "not even a question," according to
University of
Maryland special education professor and distinguished scholar Steve Graham.
"It is one of the better established facts in the literature."[
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2004/jan04/focus.html ]  Professor
Christina Hoff Sommers

Furthermore, as AH wrote a while back ...

The feminist influences - which are extremely powerful - are always to the
detriment of boys. For example, in the UK, currently, some 18% of young men
are functionally illiterate. They cannot read or write properly. And one of
the reasons for this is because the feminist-indoctrinated teaching
establishments managed to persuade teachers to adopt a very inferior method
for teaching reading.

It is sometimes described as the Look-Say method.

The idea behind this was to give girls an advantage over boys by teaching
all the children to approach their learning through more holistic,
right-brained methods as opposed to allowing them to use their left-brained
functions - logic, analysis, sequential processing etc.

The fact that this policy continued to result in a deterioration of language
skills for both the girls and the boys over three decades was immaterial to
the feminist groups, whose only concern was that girls would be better off
educationally than boys. And this is why governments both in the UK and the
USA are nowadays trying to force - with difficulty - the educationalists to
teach reading using more effective phonological methods.

And it is worth pointing out that even in the area of Mathematics the
feminist influences continue to be detrimental to the boys.

For example, in the case of some new basic Maths procedures (e.g. add,
subtract, multiply, divide) now being taught in the UK, the children who
will be the most successful with them will be those whose handwriting is
neater, who have fewer laterality problems, and who are more compliant, more
focused and more organised when it comes to keeping pencil on paper.

In none of these areas do younger boys do well when compared to the girls.

To give you some feel for this. A rough equivalent in, say, Geometry, would
be for the children now to be assessed on how accurately and painstakingly
they draw a triangle to work out its angles, instead of using algebra and
the mathematical relationships of Sin, Cos and Tan to figure them out.

What the feminist-controlled educational academics are purposely doing
through their universities is bringing in new teaching methods in Maths to
ensure that the girls outperform the boys.

The progress of all the children will be retarded when it comes to basic
Maths, but it is the boys who will lose out the most.

And this is not just a coincidence - a happenstance.

We already know that feminist ideology pervades nearly all government
departments. And no departments are more ridden with this sex-discriminatory
ideology than are those in the world of education.

And if you doubt this, just imagine what an outcry there would be if it was
the case that girls were significantly less able to manipulate their writing
implements but that, henceforth, the Maths curriculum was being altered to
favour those with better skills in this area.





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