Where have all the young men gone?

wisteria
Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:41:02 +0000

Hmmm, I know a world-class young woman in science who was sent to the principal’s office in first grade for pencil-stabbing and inciting a subsequent riot in the classroom. The principal made her spend the entire afternoon in his office, presumably so she could contemplate her misdeeds (and also to give her poor teacher–in her first year of teaching!–a break.) Her parents were mortified. Who knew back then that pencil-stabbing predicted greatness in math-science?