Based on an article on Time, "Why Girls Need Gym Class March 24, 2008 pp 14-15

Reading "Why Girls Need Gym Class" in the Time magazine this week, I thought of the article by Christina Hoff Sommers "The War Against Boys" and her thesis that radical feminists and the government are in some sort of concerted action to blame boys for girls' under-performance in certain aspects of education. The article briefly summarizes the results of a study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that reveals that girls from Kindergarten to Fifth grade that during the week have exercised for more than one hour and up to five hours, do "consistently higher on standardized tests". The article indicates that the study revealed that for boys there is no correlation between "gym class and test scores". The rationale is that perhaps since boys are generally more physically active than girls gym class does not represent a difference in boy's testing performance.

After reading this article I thought how easily this study could be used to claim that there exists " a war against boys" since this study was paid for with public funds and it seems to indicate that funding for gym class is necessary for girls, but not for boys because by the way boys play they really do not need gym class. Maybe what the study is telling us is that the difference in the way girls and boys play are causing a difference in performance and that we as a society need to review the way we socialize boys and girls so that we do not cause this disparate impact on children's future performance.