Excuse Me?

Doug Anglin wants to be treated fairly, or so he claims. Sound's good. I'm for it.
What I'm not for is "looking past boys' poor work habits and rule breaking". This is Anglin's version of fair.
It makes me very angry to read of people espousing such anarchistic views. It also makes me angry when people make stupid leaps of logic, like assuming that inequality of outcome means that there was an inequality of opportunity: "At Milton High School, girls outnumber boys by almost 2 to 1 on the honor roll. In Advanced Placement classes, almost 60 percent of the students are female." I highly doubt that such inequality is the fault of the school, looking at how most high school students behave these days.

If it sounded like there was actual discrimination going on, I'd be on Anglin's side... but instead, he's just bitching, moaning, and worst, trying to break down the rigid structure of rules that children and young adults espcially need in school. I don't buy into the argument that men naturally rebel any more than women do, but only becuase women do it just as much. The fact that at his school, the girls have buckled down more than guys is not the fault of the school.

"The system is designed to the disadvantage of males," Anglin said. ''From the elementary level, they establish a philosophy that if you sit down, follow orders, and listen to what they say, you'll do well and get good grades. Men naturally rebel against this."

I can think of a predominatly male organization that is built around 'sitting down, following orders, and listening'... and the men in it don't rebel! I'm in it... One does not succeed by being an anarchist. People are natually selfish and lazy, therefore rebelious against structure. To become successfull, to become a part of society, a person must overcome their impulses, the animal side of their nature. The animal nature of the human race is what Anglin is speaking to, and the animal nature of the human race is the bane of civilization.

It's one thing to rebel to gain liberty, to gain recognition of God-given rights... but it's another to whine and moan that rules need to be toned down to server one's 'rebelious nature'.