Message from @Indigo

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2018-12-10 14:39:04 UTC  

Thanks for feedback

2018-12-10 14:39:07 UTC  

Gn mate

2018-12-10 14:40:06 UTC  

Rest well

2018-12-10 14:40:28 UTC  

@asparkofpyrokravte are you Asian?

2018-12-10 14:55:39 UTC  

No...why?

2018-12-10 14:57:03 UTC  

nvm, it's just now night in the east.

2018-12-11 10:33:51 UTC  

Haven't checked the new version yet, how is it coming along in your opinion?

2018-12-11 10:35:03 UTC  

I'm planning to sit down with it tonight or tomorrow morning, once I've gone through my own article on suicide and maybe launched part two of the sexism. At schools one.

2018-12-11 10:35:16 UTC  

Speaking of which.

2018-12-11 18:37:05 UTC  

Just added a note in <#512584678314606613>. If anyone has any more stories about their time at school let me know.

2018-12-11 19:53:16 UTC  

Changes from the old version are so far are *relatively* small since the first word doc I posted except for the beginning and end, but there are small changes to most paragraphs. The beginning I need to rewrite again, probably will do that tonight.

2018-12-11 20:01:42 UTC  

Aside from the beginning and the section where I mention US policy, I'm close to being happy with it (but would also be happy to get an objection from someone to something from the body of the work too).

2018-12-12 04:52:08 UTC  

Eh, I eventually decided to remove that bit about US policy. Demonstrating the difference between the attention given to girls vs boys education in the US is a bit difficult to do from solid ground. Sure the DoE mentions girls in its quick facts about STEM, and doesn't mention gender in its quick facts about reading (even though it does mention race, which has a similar magnitude of effect), it also doesn't mention gender in its quick facts specifically about math.

2018-12-12 04:53:07 UTC  

Additionally, although a really poor statement was chucked into the creation of the white house council on women and girls...it is really hard to say how much effect that had on overall policy

2018-12-12 04:53:46 UTC  

So while one can say that girls issues on education seem to get addressed to the exclusion of boys in the US, it not something blatantly obvious

2018-12-12 04:54:01 UTC  

..

2018-12-12 05:03:24 UTC  

@Indigo @InsaneCaterpilla, and anyone else interested, how's this for an introduction? I'm still not entirely happy with it, but the immediate issues with the previous incarnations should be dealt with.

2018-12-12 05:03:27 UTC  

"Do boys lag behind girls in academic achievement? Yes, boys get lower grades in school almost universally. There are several ways in which boys have particular issues with regard to schooling as compared to girls. What can be done about those issues? Well, it's complicated. There are some things that appear to be solvable or at least mitigated by school system, but some of the differences seem intractable, and everything is mired in politics. What follows is a summary of boy's issues with schooling, how those are being addressed, and hopefully a little of why those issues should be important to you."

2018-12-12 05:08:47 UTC  

Mate I've gone like, way overboard on criticism, I really dont wanna do anymore but oof ^^; it feels wrong for the first sentence to be a question with a yes/no answer unless it's the title, because it seems to have no flow, but that could just be me. That's all I'll say, besides it does definitely seem to have improved :3

2018-12-12 05:10:53 UTC  

Hrm, yep, I did notice that. Grrr. I like having the two questions, but I still need to change things around a bit.

2018-12-12 05:11:15 UTC  

@asparkofpyrokravte we need to come up with a good title first

2018-12-12 05:11:34 UTC  

Right, you were talking about that a bit

2018-12-12 05:11:41 UTC  

What would you suggest more than "An Issue of Education"?

2018-12-12 05:11:57 UTC  

I think I interrupted you last time you were talking about that.

2018-12-12 05:12:26 UTC  

That would be too vague for a title even though it is on a men's rights site

2018-12-12 05:13:01 UTC  

Atleast we need people to know what it is just from the title and to click on it.

2018-12-12 05:14:51 UTC  

Title strategy should be like this:

Make it vague only it if the vagueness increases the chances of a click.

2018-12-12 05:15:08 UTC  

Otherwise be on point

2018-12-12 05:15:58 UTC  

So then how does one be more on point for such a broad topic without going full acedemic into "A Summary of Boys' Issues in Education"? I'm really completely a loss here. I feel the present suggested title is a relatively serviceable balance given its scope.

2018-12-12 05:17:21 UTC  

Is the gender disadvantage in education, similar to that of in race(white v black)?

2018-12-12 05:17:52 UTC  

Not quite, but that is relatively irrelevant

2018-12-12 05:18:06 UTC  

That's gonna change the scope of the topic to have to include studies on race in education as well

2018-12-12 05:18:10 UTC  

exactly

2018-12-12 05:18:19 UTC  

Yeah, that is

2018-12-12 05:18:38 UTC  

But it's a feminist criticism which can arise

2018-12-12 05:19:04 UTC  

The gender disadvantage in terms of absolute outcome really is just one paragraph in this article anyways, even though it is referenced therafter. And isn't US-centric (for reasons that become relatively important in the middle of the article).

2018-12-12 05:19:54 UTC  

We need to atleast mention it in a sentence to as to deflect criticism

2018-12-12 05:20:49 UTC  

And since because of the racial disadvantage, we are doing much to decrease the gap like scholarships, programmes, quota etc.

2018-12-12 05:21:05 UTC  

But we are doing jackshit about the gender gap

2018-12-12 05:21:14 UTC  

********

2018-12-12 05:21:28 UTC  

I mean tell something like that