"...girls strip to their underwear and get wet sliding through water on a plastic sheet."

Okay, I know you’re just reading this post to find out why girls are doing this but I’ll get to that in a moment. First, I want to tell you about a href=”http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080816/OPINION/808160323″a good article/a by Joe Manthey, educational consultant and trustee for the Boys Project, in the span style=”font-style:italic;”Press Democrat/span in California entitled, “What about helping boys?” br /br /blockquoteWe as a community, as well as a nation, need to ask the next obvious question that was not asked by any news reporters or editors who covered the National Science Foundation-sponsored math study: If girls are now the equal of boys in math, and that fact is due to the boost the schools gave to girls through teacher trainings, curriculum development, conferences, and programs for the girls themselves, then why are there not similar efforts to close the biggest gender gap of all in K-12 education — language arts — where boys are behind girls at every grade level?br /br /When girls were thought to be in trouble academically, we said “There must be something wrong with the schools,” and we changed them to be more girl-friendly. But there is no similar push to assist boys academically. Instead, when boys don’t do well in school, we blame the boys./blockquotebr /br /Manthey also points out that 2 out of 3 students who drop out of high school in California are boys. Does anyone there care? Apparently not, perhaps pandering to girls and women is more important than whether or not boys get an education. But in the long run, those who let boys go by the wayside when it comes to education may be harming the girls in the end. br /br /Richard Whitmire, writer of the a href=”http://www.whyboysfail.com/2008/07/21/how-college-gender-imbalances-impact-the-social-scene/”whyboysfail.com website/a, had a story in the span style=”font-style:italic;”Chronicle of Higher Education/span recently entitled, “A Tough Time to Be A Girl: Gender Imbalance on Campuses.” The article is hard to access so I will describe the gist of it. The shift of American colleges to predominately female is resulting in more of a hook-up culture as described in author Laura Sessions Stepp’s a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001A5UV8K?ie=UTF8tag=wwwviolentkicomlinkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=B001A5UV8K” span style=”font-style:italic;”Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both./span/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwviolentkicoml=as2o=1a=B001A5UV8K” width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”” style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” / Why? Because fewer men are attending college, they are in high demand and young women have to compete for their attention. Girls are so desperate at some colleges where girls outnumber guys that they will do anything to get a guy’s attention–including stripping to their underwear and getting wet sliding through water on a plastic sheet, according to a senior at James Madison University.br /br /Bureaucrats, politicians and women’s groups may think they are doing the right thing for girls and women by looking the other way when it comes to boys and education–or lack of it, but when their daughters are slip-sliding away, or just not able to get a date in college, they may not be so happy with their decisions.