The Odyssey for Equality – Phase 2

Does anyone see a connection? (6)

Producers of school textbooks have been told that if the book contains pictures, if it is someone solving a problem, answering a question, winning a prize, etc., it must be a girl. If it is someone
confused, doing something wrong, etc., it must be a boy. In the past 10 years, there has been a 70% increase in the number of boys leaving secondary school declaring that they will never set foot in
a classroom again. Does anyone see a connection?

Does anyone see a connection? (7)

Research has shown that children born in November or December are four times as likely to be diagnosed with a learning disability as those born in January or February (in jurisdictions where the cut off date for school attendance is the end of August, the corresponding dates are July or August and September or October). Children born in December are a full year younger than those born in January of the same year. Does anyone see a connection?

Does anyone see a connection? (8)

A school district in Ontario retrained all of its primary teachers and re-equiped their classrooms so that they taught children on a continuum, rather than as single grades, much as one would do in a one-room school house. The number of children diagnosed by grade 4 as learning disabled (for non-organic reasons) dropped from 11% to virtually 0%. Does anyone see a connection?

Does anyone see a connection? (9)

Children born on January 1 are placed in the same class as children born on December 31 of the same calendar year. Children that are a full year apart in age are unlikely to be able to crawl the same
day, talk the same day, be toilet-trained the same day, yet we do not consider the younger child to be “disabled” based solely on that. Does anyone see a connection?

Does anyone see a connection? (10)

Research has shown that children born in November or December are significantly more likely to be diagnosed as having ADHD than those born in January or February of the same calendar year. (For those jurisdictions that use the end of August as the cut off date for starting school, the corresponding dates are July or August and September or October). Children born in December are virtually a full year younger than those born in January of that same calendar year. Does anyone see a connection?