Saturday, August 04, 2007

Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice

"Principals talk about not only the increased number of girl fights but also the savagery. One of them told me, 'We never had to call an ambulance here until girls started fighting.'"
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, co-author of Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence"and professor of public health at the Harvard School of Public Health, meets with teachers and administrators around the country and is taken aback by what she hears.

'And if you don't like it I'll kick your face in.'

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