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brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

Parse Tree parsetree at hotmail.com
Sun Aug 4 12:42:20 EST 2002


"The 9th Witch" <Thec at inthe.net> wrote in message
news:3d4d1bc2.31949120 at news.cis.dfn.de...
>
> *> Perhaps his ilk can heighten and enlighten the Canadian
> *>Educational System to the same level as the US Schools:  THIRD from
> the
> *>BOTTOM, with GIRLS scoring DEAD LAST.
> *>
>
> Can you give me a valid reason as to why that is?  I have my ideas,
> but refrain from assigning blame. Who's fault it is is irrelevant. It
> needs to be fixed.  Perhaps assuring our children that they would be
> safe in school would be a good starting point.  You did notice that
> homeschooled children did better than publicly educated, did you not?
> Without a dime of 'government' money spent on them.

In Canada, it would be because higher level maths are optional, as are
higher level sciences.  Less girls go into engineering and such, and thus
girls would do worse.





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