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Review title: tripe
Product review: Be aware. This book is dealing with an important topic but in a very conservative fashion. If you like writers like Diane Ravitch, Michael Gurian (Wondor of Boys) and ED Hirsch (Cultural Literacy) you might like this book. If you have any progressive ideas at all and like writers like Theodore Sizer (Horace's Compromise), Alfie Kohn (The Schools Our Children Deserve) or God forbid, Rousseau!, be aware that she is not only blasting feminists in her book but progressive thinkers throughout history. She even goes so far as to blame my old friend John Tinker (Tinker vs. Des Moines School District) for "the beginning of the end of effective school discipline."If you want a better understanding of boys growing up today, I would stick with William Pollack's "Real Boys" or Kindlon & Thompson's "Raising Cain". If you want conservative, reactionary tripe, go with Sommers.(FYI -I have been an educator for nearly 30 years and have never written a book review until this book made me mad enough to do so.)
