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| Topic Started: Apr 3 2013, 10:01 AM (584 Views) | |
| Darcie | Apr 3 2013, 10:01 AM Post #1 |
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Posted Image Yeah Canada, lets keep it up. |
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| heatseeker | Apr 4 2013, 06:07 AM Post #16 |
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As the father of an overeducated woman, I am absolutely fine with girls excelling in school. laugh123 But I do think that if boys continue to vastly underperform, with many not even finishing high school, we are headed for trouble down the road. There are no jobs for these guys, and not even much a place for them in our society. |
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| Darcie | Apr 4 2013, 06:23 AM Post #17 |
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Have to go out but I would really like to hear your thinking on your last comment "and not even much a place for them in our society" What do you think is a place in society that is not now? |
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| heatseeker | Apr 4 2013, 06:42 AM Post #18 |
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Darcie, I'm talking about the guys who have no education and no skills. This may have been okay 50 years ago, when there were more heavy lifting jobs. But these are mostly gone. |
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| angora | Apr 4 2013, 07:34 AM Post #19 |
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It's true, heatseeker. You could see the trend in the 60's. I may be wrong but I see that men today are not willing to do the 'lower' jobs. Like garbage collecting and janitorial etc. They feel shame. That is so wrong. My feeling is that the people who perform these jobs are doing 'real' work, not shuffling papers around or do PR work to make people spend money they dont have or cashing paycheques to steal what little money the lower earners have been able to make. The unfairness in this society makes my blood boil. |
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| Trotsky | Apr 4 2013, 07:35 AM Post #20 |
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Why does the map of Canada include Alaska. Are you guys SO willing to assume the briliance of Sarah Palin as your own? |
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| heatseeker | Apr 4 2013, 08:26 AM Post #21 |
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Are you guys SO willing to assume the briliance of Sarah Palin as your own? We needed a pretty big handicap. oooh 02 |
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| wildie | Apr 4 2013, 08:48 AM Post #22 |
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That would a fair deal! After all, Sarah is unlikely to grace the face of Alaska for more than 30,40 more years, then it will be free running! 1sm088doubleup.gif |
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| Delphi51 | Apr 4 2013, 01:09 PM Post #23 |
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It strikes me that there is more wrong with that story than just Alaska. Anyway, a huge compliment for Canadians who get more education paying high tuition than Norwegians and Finns do with free tuition. Years ago it was common for boys to go to a trades school at age 16 unless they were identified as good university candidates. I think this is still the case in Germany. This business of forcing them to stay in abstract high school is foolish. Many of the boys here are holding down full time jobs and just socializing in high school classes. |
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