Emily Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Imagine yourself as a shy and easily startled and scared kid of 13 or 14.
> The easy and not very scary path involves taking lots of English and
> History classes throughout high school, and if you only take 2 years of
> science and 3 of math, it leaves more room for Art, Music, and foreign
> language electives. The scary path (with loud, intimidating teachers,
> lots of homework, and lots of noisy and sometimes nasty fellow students)
> involves taking 5 years of math, 4-6 years of science, and the same
> level of English and History classes. Plus 4 years of German if you can
> fit it in. The easy path was the one most girls at my highschool took.
> Generally, out of a class of 150, only 2-3 girls would take all 5 years
> of math, and 4 or more years of science classes. The number of boys who
> did the same thing usually was around 15-20. Computer science classes
> were a luxury... you didn't get science credit for them, and they could
> totally destroy your class schedule if the time slots didn't work right.
Actually, that path for females sounds like what I did through
adolescence. Unfortunately, that was before personal computers, so I
shoveled words from one book to another... emerging from my room only
for coke and pizza. I thought the math and science teachers were
jerks, took as much English and art shop classes as I could (we got to
make things), skipped phy ed as often as possible, (oh, yes, and
learned German), and stayed home and read. Very un-masculine, for the
time and place I grew up.
Robert
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