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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Boys and girls in grade school - who is pressured to be smarter
Message-ID: <1975@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 10:32:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: mnetor.1975
Posted: Wed Sep  4 10:32:45 1985
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References: <6733@ucla-cs.ARPA> <339@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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In article <339@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>A recent article about a the author's concept of a hypothetical non-sexist
>society said that this would mean that:
>>
>>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.

I tend to agree with Brad here.  In my grade school, in grades 1, 2, and 3,
girls were better than boys and were expected to be.  I don't remember the
part about academic excellence being rewarded by their peer group, rather 
the opposite.  I can't comment on grades beyond grade 3 because I went to
an all-girls school then.
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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