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Re: Sign this petition to allow girls in robotics! (at Timmins Public library)!
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Originally Posted by Siri
... there was no substantive reason to discriminate (dictionary term) in this case. Literacy for 9-12 year olds is no more a gendered topic at a public school than it is at a public library. ...
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Are you sure about that? If that field isn't your area of expertise, can you cite an authoritative source that confirms your opinion?
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Originally Posted by Siri
... "As I said, I cannot add much more, ...
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I take what I read in blogs with a large grain of salt. That said, I'm sure that I would have advocated different methods too.
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Originally Posted by Siri
... Their position on the teaching of science has always been Science For All." ...
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What I have read about this situation is that the event * wasn't* a teaching-science event. Those reports I read might have been wrong or misleading, but if they were right... that would be an important piece of information.
Blake
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Indeed, the more ways you fail, the more ways you know something doesn't work.:) - Steven Sigley [more] 
06-07-2015, 16:46
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