Normal Behavior by boys is discriminated in schools

My position is above. Good luck to my opponent.

I reject your claim on the grounds that there is no "normal" behavior for a boy that couldn't also be normal for a girl. I will make my case on the premise that any behavior that is prohibited of a boy is also prohibited of a girl.

Your floor.

Professor Michael Thompson observed, Girl behavior is the standard in school, While boys are treated like being a defected girl. Its showing. Boys are far less likely to go to college, Get much fewer honors and get pretty crappy grades. For example, Boys score lower on reading tests not because their dumb but because they're just boys. Boys prefer action and comic books. However the books today in school clearly do not interest boys. Boys who are forced to read stories like Little House On a Prairie aren't happy. A study conducted by Ralph Fletcher concluded that classrooms like to use The Confessional Poet. Only stories that are full of emotion and have deep poetry are praised but boys tend to write about action, A monster devouring a city and competitions. A third grader made a drawing of a pirate battle and the boy got in trouble, However the dad was astonished that the teacher got him in trouble.

Boys are 5x more likely to get expelled from PRESCHOOL. In grades K-12 boys account for 70% of suspensions. Hardly a week goes by and you hear a story about how boys being boys are suspended. Jonathan Welsh, Age 7 was suspended because he made a pretend gun out of a pop-tart. At recess boys should be able to bring their competitive spirit, But recess has been lost by 50% and games like red rover, Tag and dodgeball are not allowed.

Not to sound glib, But your argument is based entirely off prejudice thinking.

"Girl behavior is the standard in school"

There is no such thing as girl behavior, Unless you count menstruation and child birth. Are you saying that schools are making boys menstruate and have babies?

"Boys prefer action and comic books. "

False. This is a sexist statement. Kids like what they like. Some girls like action and comic books.

"Boys who are forced to read stories like Little House On a Prairie aren't happy"

False and furthermore, I read that book as a kid and loved it. Pioneers are cool. Once again, This all comes down to the fact that you think there are male and female behaviors. It's false and it's making you think like a sexist.

"Only stories that are full of emotion and have deep poetry are praised but boys tend to write about action, "

More prejudice. Boys are allowed to feel emotion and boys write about emotional things all the time.

"Jonathan Welsh, Age 7 was suspended because he made a pretend gun out of a pop-tart. "

While I don't necessarily agree with this suspension, The fact is that they suspended him based on policy, Not his gender. It's not discrimination if the rules apply to everyone. Boys being suspended isn't evidence of discrimination. You said yourself that boys statistically get suspended more, So calling it discrimination is just a red herring.

"At recess boys should be able to bring their competitive spirit, "

So should girls and what even is your point here?

Now that I've shown the robust absurdity of my opponent's argument. I would just like to point out the topic is pertaining to discrimination. My opponents argument has only pointed to policies that he thinks are discriminatory, But he's using discrimination to arrive at these conclusions. If there is discrimination, Then he needs to point to more than just some policies, He needs to show that the policy or the people enforcing them are singling out boys specifically by gender and just because the boys happened to break a rule that also applied to girls.

your floor.

"But your argument is based entirely off prejudice thinking. " oh here we go, Mr genius here going to tell me how im sexist.

"There is no such thing as girl behavior, "

What? There are clear physiological differences in boys and girls.

Ok, You are denying science and actual statistics. There are defined differences in what girls and boys like, AND THATS OK, Whats not ok is schools only caring to girls and what they like and their mindset. Girls and boys are different, ACCEPT THAT FACT.

"Based on policy"
The policy is against boys imagination.

Again, Its showing. Boys get lower grades, Less bound to go to college and get less honors. You didn't rebuttal my points, You just said that im sexist and im absurd, But they are real boys who are affected by this.

You said " oh here we go, Mr genius here going to tell me how im sexist. "

Was this suppose to be a rebuttal? Your behavior meets the textbook definition of sexism. You're attributing certain behaviors and desires to people based of their gender, Instead of basing them on their individuality. If you want people to stop calling you sexist, Then stop being sexist.

You said "What? There are clear physiological differences in boys and girls"

Yes, Physiological, Aka, Their bodies. Their bodies have nothing to do with general behaviors. Any behavior that a boy displays could also be displayed by a girl. The policies enacted in schools are aimed towards negative behaviors. It doesn't matter which gender displays these behaviors. It's only discrimination of there's a double standard. A boy got in trouble for making a gun out of pop tart, But the school would punish the girl for the same thing, So it's not discrimination.

You said "You are denying science and actual statistics. There are defined differences in what girls and boys like"

I am not denying science. There is nothing in science that claims that boys and girls necessarily like different things. You're just spouting off your prejudices and claiming them as science.

You said "The policy is against boys imagination"

That's a bold assertion. Every boy has a different imagination, So you cannot make an objective statement concerning their imagination, Unless the policy actually states verbatim that it does as much, Which it doesn't.

You said "Again, Its showing. Boys get lower grades, Less bound to go to college and get less honors. "

So what? Boys get lower grades. That doesn't prove anything, You're not showing any correlation to the two, I rebutted this in my last response and yet you claim I haven't. If you want to assert this point, Then you have to give me either data or a logical argument between the correlation, And you've given me neither.

I just want to reiterate that we're talking about discrimination here. That means your feelings on the matter don't mean anything. You need to show that people are specifically setting a double standard and you have not shown that. The rules in schools apply equally to both genders, So it's not discrimination.

Your Floor.

A study by a top professor concluded that yes, Girls and boys are different in many ways. Thats ok and saying that doesn't make you sexist. Also Physiological differences do not equal the body. Yes, Even though a girl can display some boys behavior, There brain is fundamentally different. How can you deny this? Boys and girls share some different interest and thats ok.

The Zero Tolerance Policy is the exact policy that are against boys. You say thats it a BOLD assertion, But how? Do boys share some different qualities of interest, Sure, But they have the same brain.

I gave you an example. Reading tests. Boys score lower because books commonly chosen by the schools are not interested in the eyes of boys. I did show examples of boys getting discriminated more, But you write it off as sexism and BOLD assertions.

German and French customs are different, Am I racist for saying that?

You're just not getting it.

You said. "A study by a top professor concluded that yes, Girls and boys are different in many ways"

What study? You didn't link a source nor did you name the study. Anybody can just say that there's a study. Here, I'll do it right now just to show how absurd this is: "A study by a top professor concluded that Dr. Franklin is wrong" You see how silly this is? You didn't even try to make logic out of it. You just asserted it.

You said. "Also Physiological differences do not equal the body. "

Oh dear, Physiological MEANS pertaining to the body. Please look this word up before you keep using it the wrong way.

You said. "The Zero Tolerance Policy is the exact policy that are against boys. "

Once again, That's a bold assertion. The policies do not mention boys specifically and they only denote behaviors. Behaviors are not linked to genders. It's like you refuse to justify your claims.

You said "I gave you an example. Reading tests"

You're missing the point. I don't need proof of test scores. I need proof of discrimination being correlated to the test scores. There are a million reasons why there test scores could be lower. Including physiology for all we know. You don't get to claim it's from discrimination unless you rule out the other possibilities.

You said "German and French customs are different, Am I racist for saying that? "

Yes you are. Customs are not specific to a nationality. They're specific to groups of people regardless. It's not a French custom, It's a custom of SOME people in France. By attributing it to their national identity, You're being prejudice.

In closing. You simply did not provide enough evidence. You wanted to prove discrimination, And you made a bunch of claims, But you didn't connect any of the claims to discrimination and some of your claims didn't have justification. I believe that I have provided sufficient rebuttals and counterproofs to show that the policies are not related to genders so there simply isn't any correlation.

Good debate.