But almost all schools had pupils with no social skills, whose language was "offensive" and who had "little or no understanding of how to behave sensibly".

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But one of the biggest knocks against tiger parenting is that it supposedly produces kids with no initiative or social skills.

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Without the skills and expertise that is a result of excelling, I would never have the chance to sit at the important tables to participate in the discussions, no matter how great my social skills.

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This is no doubt part of developing social skills between genders, but I am sure that this addition to school life could be avoided by attending single gender schools without significant detriment to inter-gender social skills in the long term.

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My research over the past twenty years with hundreds of boys and girls throughout adolescence finds no gender differences in social-emotional needs and skills.

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"There is no silver bullet on social mobility, but education and higher skills are as close as you get to one, " he said.

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Today, she no longer needs intensive treatment -- just one session a week to practice social skills.

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College used to be a great equalizer: No matter their parents' social status, students who came to campus tended to deal with basic life skills on their own from frying up grilled cheese sandwiches to unclogging toilets and folding laundry.

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