Kitten_130

Recently there was an article in N.Y times that said that the board of education was plannaning on making boys and girls learn in different classroom. This is based on a scienfic research and the fact that a girls brain develops earlier than a boys, they even though of making boys star at 6 years of age instead of 5. Do you think that this will actully help academics go up?

John1234

Sounds like a bunch of BS to me.
My school wanted to skip me from the 3rd to the 6th grade but my parents would not allow it due to fear of harming my social development.
In the end i squandered whatever it was I had by not continuing my education.
I acted out all through my school years due to being bored to death.
If i had been allowed to skip those grades I think I might have stayed in school.
I can only imagine the harm it would have done to me if i was behind a another year.

Lachean

Grade School would have been far less interesting if it were not co-ed. However, I see nothing wrong with seperating the gifted from the mediocre; Especially in group activity classes where they end up taking the majority of the work.

If girls are more gifted than boys at certain ages, by some meaningful quantifiable standard, then they would benefit from classes where the pace of material isn't being held back by those of a different maturity level.

Not that I agree with these findings at all. From what I understood, at an earlier age boys proved better at mathematics and girls often had a better grasp on reading comprehension. I'd like a source for this claim...

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DarkWizard12

I agree with the seperating them but thats something that should be optional. The Board of Education does not have a good record at doing at what they are supposed to do. Make academics go up.

What I do agree on doing, however, is starting school at age 6 instead of 5, heck, it would be best if it was 7 or 8

John1234

It should be 4 instead of 5.
Or at the very least, children should be allowed to start school when they are mentally prepared for it.

DarkWizard12

I was never mentally prepared untill I was 16.

John1234

Well, I was on a 6th grade level in the 1st grade.
And on a 2nd year college level in the 7th.
I then dropped out of school to become a pothead.
I might of stayed had there been anything to learn.

With no high school what so ever, I then had one of the highest scores for my college on my ACT.
But i dropped out again in my second year due to having no study habit skills.
At this point college actually became challenging. But it was too late to build any interest in me.

If our schools were not so screwed up by catering to the least intelligent or to the average intelligence, i might of had a chance to do something great in life.
Instead , I became a painter.

Now people want to cause even more harm to our children's development by catering even further to the average intelligence.

DarkWizard12

Our schools do have problems but if you couldn't take the boredome tht is your own fault. I don;t like school either, I hate all the work we do, but guess what? I do it anyways so that I can get an A. Its called work ethic, which is what you need for study skills and to get your degree.

John1234

I do not think we view boredom in the same way.
Boredom for me was due to never having a need for "study skills".
I never got a final grade less than an A.
And i never studied once in my life.
How can a child develop study skills if a child is never challenged and never has a need to study?
By the time they reach college it is too late.

This plan of further retarding the growth of children's education does just what it says.
Our Country is behind most of the world in Education.
We should be striving to make improvements, not backing it up an entire additional year.

This is the similar to what the state of Mississippi did.
Due to having many children that were struggling they dramatically lowered the bar for education by making all test's be multiple choice.
And it was the worst plan imaginable.

WI Crippler

I agree that the seperation should be by learning ability and intelligence, rather than by sex.

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