Want To End the 'Boy Crisis'?
Fred Reed at LewRockwel.com - boys will be boys, no matter how much their women teachers want to turn them into girls. And that's the crux of the "Boy Crisis" in the schools. [lew]
One hears often now that boys flounder in school, drop out, generally perform less well academically than girls, and don't go to college. A certain amount of this commentary comes from women who seem quietly to enjoy the spectacle. Given that women control the schools, this might suggest that, if they are not actually causing the problem, neither are they in a hurry to do anything about it. Other people worry that the comparative superabundance of female college graduates will have no one to marry: While men will marry down, women won't. Regarding all of which:
The cause is not that boys are stupid. Boys have higher average scores than do girls on standardized tests, for example, and at the high end are far ahead of the girls. Putting it straightforwardly, the very smart are predominantly male, particularly in mathematics, and the exceedingly smart, almost entirely so. You don't have to like it. You don't have to think it fair. But it is a fact, and everybody in the field knows it.
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You want to end the "boy crisis"? Easy. Give boys male teachers who understand boys and care about them. Women do neither. Let them compete. It's how they are. Encourage them to burn off energy in the gym. Reward achievement, not pretty projects. Turn them into men, not transvestites.
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