Word: genderism
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Nostradamus, The Crimson, and other prophets of doom had been mistaken. Nary a multi-color "click" pen had been thrown, nor any "bell-ringing beef" flung upon the arrival of the randomized sophomore class into the houses. Despite valiant attempts to polarize the situation (e.g. disproportionate gender ratios), the class struggle described in Karl Marx's little-known Harvardesque Manifesto has yet come to pass...
Some students also supported curricular changes, citing the dearth of course offerings in feminist jurisprudence, gender discrimination and sexuality...
...student leaders said the campus has serious gender problems and said they hope the committee could take a larger role...
...other students, while agreeing with the goals of gender equity, said the group was not necessarily a place for fundamental change...
...teachers were coping with kids' misbehavior long before there was zero drug tolerance or gender sensitivity. What has changed is the parents. The welter of written regulations that have supplanted the rule of common sense in America's schools did not arise in a vacuum but in an atmosphere where parents think they know best--and certainly know how to call a lawyer. In response, skittish school boards have pursued rule codification as a way to narrow discretion and defend lawsuits. Yet trying to write detailed regulations about what is permissible between boys and girls during their most chaotic years...