> From: Suzanne Stephens[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Tamra wrote:
> >me doing big things). And folks who do surveys wonder why Girls in
> school
> >don't voice an interest in computers, web design, or programming --
> because
> >teachers, parents, or especially peers tell them "oh, you shouldn't
> be
> >interested in *that* stuff".
>
> Ditto. I graduated from high school in the 60s, way before computers
> became
> an option. I remember vividly my mother going to war against the local
> school board when I was in junior high school. She was fighting
> against the
> fact that 8th grade boys were required to take physical science, while
> 8th
> grade girls were required to take home economics instead. She had
> already
> taught me to sew and cook, so she thought home ec was a waste of my
> time.
>
heehee -- i remember being very pissed off that in the 8th or 9th grade
(~1969) I had to take home ec. i knew how to cook and sew, i had won
awards in 4-h for sewing (duh) -- but my option was "shop" not physical
science. I got to take that course.
> My Mom, on the other hand, had worked as a bookkeeper in a medical
> clinic.
>
hmmm... *my* mom worked as a bookkeeper for an international company
that made farm machinery, principally peanut machinery. attitude
connection?
> Nowadays, it seems that if a parent wants to offer computers as an
> option,
> they'll have to do it at home. In Oregon, Gov. Kitzhaber is currently
> pushing to get ONE computer in every classroom throughout the state.
>
>
What?!??!
> tell how is anyone going to be able to spend enough time on one shared
> computer to be able to learn anything about it? And do the teachers
> know
> anything about computers?
>
>
do you really want an answer here?
> I went to school during the 70s, and had
> >friends constantly tell me that showing how smart I was was
> guaranteed to
> >make me unpopular -- weren't those sort of ideas supposed to go away
> in the
> >60s? Yeah, right.
>
<chuckle> yeah, i fought that one too. plus i wore glasses <g> and was
very very short. (still am. short that is.)
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