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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Boys and girls in grade school - who is pressured to be smarter
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Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  1 00:00:00 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Sep-85 13:27:25 EDT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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Summary: 

A recent article about a the author's concept of a hypothetical non-sexist
society said that this would mean that:

In article <6733@ucla-cs.ARPA> mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:
>
>5)  Girls are not pressured to seem "less smart" than boys in grade school.
>

Now this isn't related to the source article, but I want to discuss
this topic.  My memory of grade school is exactly the opposite.
In my schools, girls were always getting the top marks in the class.
They were encouraged to be studious, and academic excellence was rewarded
by their peer group.

When I, as a boy, would get the top marks, I would be ridiculed by the
other boys as a "browner" or whatever term was popular.

Now this reverses around puberty, as I recall, no doubt due to testosterone
poisoning stimulating the boys and PMS restricting the girls.  8-)

By the time adulthood draws near, the old style sex roles become prominent.

[My high school was still a bit different.  The "top" always had fairly
similar proportions of men and women.  It wasn't until university that
I began to ask, "where did all the smart women go?"]

Anyway, was my grade school unusual, or do other people remeber this?
Was my high school that unusual? 
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473