Purple bannana wrote;
How can you claim women learn better 'by the book?' I, for one, enjoy learning hands-on, and I don't enjoy sitting for hours on end. I'm not the only one.

Primary school is a whole different ballpark from secondary and post-secondary education. Different people learn different ways; I honestly can't see how you would equate learning styles to gender-specific categories. It's all relative to the individual, not some group consensus.
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You're right. I made a generalization for simplicity sake. That does not change the fact though that there are very distict differences between the sexes and this is particularly true in the primary years. Girls have better fine motor skills and boys have better large motor skills. That is why girls have better penmanship and boys throw a football better at that age (Yes, generaly).

If any of you have looked in on a 6th grade classroom recently you might have been reminded of popcorn popping. Boys just can't sit still. There are simply differences between young girls and boys.

What a lot of you are alluding to is that boys take up a lot of the teachers time, primarily because of disruptive behavior. This is true. But overall girls get better grades in primary school because it is better suited to thier natures. The grade disparity slowly drops off in later years but I feel that is primarily due to societies expectation of girls and boys. It's a shame too. My 4th grade daughter is high honors and she can run circles around her two older brothers on the soccer field but, when she plays on the girl's team all she want's to do is socialize. It's not cool for her to be a good athlete. This is something that frustrates me no end. She has a niece who got a full boat scholarship to college for basketball but that has no influence. I can only pray that her two other nieces who are doctors will be enough influence to help her keep her grades up as she gets older.
Sorry. Went off on a tangent there. LOL

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