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In a message dated 2/4/03 3:33:03 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< I actually don't think I am too surprised that boys do better as
unschoolers as opposed to "school at home" because studies (I don't have any
specifics) show that schools are set up for girls to succeed in their general
learning styles and not boys. >>

Well, perhaps with the academics. But girls actually learn better when in
groups, and facing each other. NOT the way they have desks set up in school.
Many studies have found that girls do better talking things over in group
situations and schools are definitely not set up for them.

Ren
"The sun is shining--the sun is shining. That is the magic. The flowers are
growing--the roots are stirring. That is the magic. Being alive is the
magic--being strong is the magic The magic is in me--the magic is in
me....It's in every one of us."

----Frances Hodgson Burnett