Should Boys Start Kindergarten a Year Later Than Girls?
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#3Should girls start learning math and science later than boys?
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#4First year should be smartphone avoidance training with devices that deliver electric shocks.
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#5I'd be interested to see outcomes for girls who are redshirted. I get that this article is specifically looking at outcomes of boys and addressing an identified issue with boys' performances with respect to girls but I'd imagine that a fair proportion of girls would also benefit from starting a year later.
It seems to me that if the outcome of redshirting all boys is that girls are disadvantaged then we'll be having this conversation again in a few years trying to fix the problem we've created.
The root cause of the problem is, of course, that we have a very structured education system that can't easily cater for individual students' optimal rate of learning. Students that aren't keeping up are faced with being held back an entire year with very real social implications.
It would be great to see a renewed focus on extra support for students who are falling behind.
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#7Should girls start learning math and science later than boys?
If the end result was that they performed better in the long run it doesn't seem unreasonable. Do you have any data on this?
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#8Make sure to read the article before commenting because this proposed practice is specifically to close the gender gap in which girls are ahead. Parents specifically try to get their sons redshirted for the advantage it confers. The proposed policy would make it available to everyone regardless of their birthday. I think any national policy would realistically make it available to girls as well because the optics of boys only is bad. But the option would be there for the benefit of boys.
I point this out because "being held back" is seen as a bad thing but starting school later actually gives you a leg up.
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#9Should girls start learning math and science later than boys?
If the end result was that they performed better in the long run it doesn't seem unreasonable. Do you have any data on this?
People always say that but men still get most engineering degrees especially in the more traditional fields like ME and EE. So what if girls grades in high school are marginally higher
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#10I think we should move beyond the semi-rigid alignment of age and “grade”. Let people move at different rates in different areas. We should normalize a 12yo and 16yo of the same abilities in the same classes.
We do everyone a massive disservice under the current system. The worst off get passed along without help and those with the most potential cannot realize it without “heroic effort” from the parents demanding attention from the system at every turn.
Someone who struggles with basic reading comprehension needs to address that before moving on to anything more demanding.