Boys' Academic Achievement to Skyrocket

#1’s birthday falls in the middle of summer. When he turned 7 two years ago, we took three of his cousins (at the time 13, 11 and 5, all boys) and his brother to Valleyfair. My retired uncle even flew in from Connecticut to celebrate.

It was terribly hot that day – over 100 and humid. When we weren’t at the water park, I spent much of the day hitting the bigger rollercoasters with the older boys.

What I remember most about that day was not bruising my internal organs on those insane rides. Nor was it blithely splashing about the waterslides for hours with the little guys.

Nope. At the risk of sounding like a hetero Mark Foley, or, worse yet, Democrat Perv Gerry Studds, my most vivid memories are of what members of the fairer sex wore. Every female, from 13 to 30, dressed like they were hitting an afterbar at Hedonism II. It was so surreal – armies of Britney/Paris aspirants roaming a family amusement park in trashy halter tops and microminis...

Girls Gone Wild/Six Flags.

My uncle proclaimed repeatedly that he was thankful he wore his sunglasses. Pretty recited multiple prayers to the God that brought us two boys. My 13 year-old nephew said... well, he couldn’t really formulate any words through that dumbstruck grin all day.

So what does this have to do with this post’s headline? Well, today I read that the Department of Education announced rules that will make it easier to create single-sex classrooms or entire same-sex schools.

It was bad enough in my day to focus on the chalkboard when the girls wore polo shirts and walking shorts... I can’t prove this, but I bet boys started becoming dumbshits when it became ok for girls to dress like hookers.

This announcement is a step in the right direction.

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