OUTLAWING BOYHOOD - New York Post

"I knew kids that were pushed out the back door at eight in the morning and not allowed back in until five unless they were on fire or actively bleeding." Today, four-year-olds get loaded up with pre-pre-pre algebra, Impressionist history and sitar lessons. Girls can at least sit still for this. Boys can't. They are dinged as "unruly" and their misadventures with learning begin. "Too often," says boys' psychologist Michael Thompson, "Boys are simply treated as defective girls."