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A S IGN OF M A N HO OD by John Long, Head of School
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High School students on a recent trip to a bay in Galveston. Read more about their work on page 3.
chool is about sitting down and listening to women talk.” So declared Michael Thompson, author of Raising Cain, a book about raising and educating boys. As you might imagine from his quip, Thompson blasts conventional schools: they are not boyfriendly; schools, he says, are not designed to meet
the needs of boys. Channeling his “inner boy,” he fantasized what he himself would like to do to schools—a comment I will not put in writing—and said to the audience at a recent Houston Boys’ Choir luncheon, “Am I the only one who feels this way?” Look again at his description of what conventional schools invite children, boys and continued on page 2