DesertFox
02-01-2007, 04:59 PM
The swimming bag hit the car floor with a thump and my son hit the car seat with an even bigger thump, grumbling: "What's the point?"
His primary school had just lost a swimming competition, largely because their head teacher had picked a team on the basis of enthusiasm rather than ability.
To paraphrase that old cliche, it wasn't the winning that mattered, it was the taking part.
Well, I'm sorry, but in the real world life is full of winners and losers. And right now, the losers are a generation of boys who have been betrayed by an education system that no longer recognises crucial differences between the sexes.
For the story of my son's swimming competition is also the story behind recent figures showing that boys going to university are now outnumbered by girls in every subject, with 23,000 more places awarded to women than to men.
More (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=432947&in_page_id=1770&ct=5)
His primary school had just lost a swimming competition, largely because their head teacher had picked a team on the basis of enthusiasm rather than ability.
To paraphrase that old cliche, it wasn't the winning that mattered, it was the taking part.
Well, I'm sorry, but in the real world life is full of winners and losers. And right now, the losers are a generation of boys who have been betrayed by an education system that no longer recognises crucial differences between the sexes.
For the story of my son's swimming competition is also the story behind recent figures showing that boys going to university are now outnumbered by girls in every subject, with 23,000 more places awarded to women than to men.
More (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=432947&in_page_id=1770&ct=5)