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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be very happy with single sex public school classrooms until 8th grade so the girls can learn more and the boys can be boys, I guess. [/quote]

As a boy parent, I want my kids educated at school and not run wild and do no academics as other parents don't feel their boys are capable.  Ever consider parenting is part of the problem.[/quote]

Never, I sent my kids to an all boys school that had outdoor activities 1st period, then school, then science outside, then reading outside weather permitting, then lunch, recess, then 1 class, sports, math

I never once thought that they thrived in that environment vs the other was a parenting issue. [/quote]

NP. I think you hit the nail on the head. It's not just an MCPS problem. While acknowledging that were are making gender-based generalizations that don't apply to all kids, on balance, boys tend to mature a bit slower than girls and have more trouble with attention and lack of physical movement during the day. A school day that incorporates movement, including daily gym and or recess, is helpful for these boys and better for all students. The problem is that we can't do that outside of private schools. We compound the problem of lack of movement by increasing academic expectations from a young age. Any student who doesn't meet the ideal student standard of labeled as a bad student with bad parents. I have one of those spirited boys (and another who isn't), and I sometimes wonder if my parenting, which was constantly punishing my son and taking away privileges, did more harm than if I had used a more hands-off approach. From the beginning, my kid was a square peg being beaten into a round hole, and he internalized the message that what he was was not enough.  [/quote]

I think we can do it but it's too expensive and teachers are not allowed. My son's evaluator for ADHD observed his classroom and observed he only acted up after sitting 40 minutes straight. He was fine sitting for 30 minutes.

The principal actually move art up in his class because they had 120 minutes of sitting and he didn't really think of that.

Also they can do pushups, yoga poses, run in place ... anything to get the wiggles out. [/quote]

Did you give consequences at home for the acting up or are you ok with the behavior?[/quote]

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