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Of Dubious Note
I am always intrigued but skeptical of the new fad for economic analyses of everything (happiness, for instance). The arguments are always persuasive but I don't believe them in spite of all the carefully explained studies.
But of course it was with considerable interest that I read the sensationally subtitled article in Slate: Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails: There's Finally Proof that Boys Do Ruin Schools for Girls. Not being an economist, I can't really comment on the studies and the interpretation of the data but I do know that my husband's first-grade teacher can reliably be counted on to pronounce her opinions on the advantages of single-sex education for boys. For my part, I always thought co-ed education was preferable, and there are plenty of studies that provide support for both styles of education. But, now that I have boys, I wonder if everything I assumed is either a bit off-base or out of date.
Anyway, I don't have to think about that for a while.
In the meantime, the New York Times ran another one of those guilt pieces that I don't understand in which a mother muses about why she doesn't say "I love you" to her son very often and wonders about the untold damage she is doing to her kid, who she really knows is absolutely fine. Still, she decides to plunge a fork into herself by asking the people on Urban Baby what they think about her "lapse."
If you ask me, there is plenty of opportunity to feel like crap without working so hard on it.
posted by Elise at 4:06 AM
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