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Old 31-07-2007, 11:34   #12
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Re: Positive discrimination flourishes in Hyndburn.

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Originally Posted by Gayle View Post
I think the word that I'm picking up on is 'encourage' - I see nothing wrong with encouraging girls to compete with boys in all subjects and telling them that they are perfectly capable of doing subjects that they have not traditionally gone for.
That should be, and is being done in an all inclusive way. If girls weren't studying these subjects now, there maybe an argument for this. This quite rightly isn't the case.
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