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Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

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204 points joveian | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 17:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.278s | source
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asdasdsddd ◴[16 Oct 24 20:56 UTC] No.41863778[source]▶
I think a lot of the mental illness for young boys is that the education ladder deprives them of responsibility until way past maturity.
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acjohnson55 ◴[16 Oct 24 21:17 UTC] No.41863935[source]▶
Out of curiosity, why do you think that's a problem for boys, in particular?
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1. piltdownman ◴[17 Oct 24 09:30 UTC] No.41867870[source]▶
Girls hitting puberty 2-3 years younger and being assumed as being more 'responsible' as per traditional gender roles from about the age of cognition.

This is non-withstanding the Western Educational premise of treating 'misbehaving' boys as 'broken' girls, as opposed to facilitating them in a mutually acceptable learning style.