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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Boys and girls in grade school - who is pressured to be smarter
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Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 21:03:07 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 21:03:07 1985
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> [Sophie Quigley]
> 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.
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It holds true all through grade school and high school.  I just
looked in my high school yearbook.  The National Honor Society
had 28 girls and only 9 boys!  This is in a school with approximately
the same number of boys and girls!  Now everyone can confirm this
by looking in their yearbook (at least those of us who went to coed
U. S. public schools).
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan


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