"The war on boys: Young men losing ground in education, emotional health and jobs"

[lumberjack_jeff]

From the Deseret News

Excellent article.

Even with all the efforts, though, Thompson sees a wide swath of misperception wreaking havoc on educational outcomes for boys.

"The teachers in school sometimes start to treat the boys as if they're always failing the standard — and the standard is the way the girls act," he says. "I talk about this as the girls being the gold standard and the boys always being seen as being defective girls. ...

"We can't still keep thinking that it's always girls who get the short end of the stick. Girls passed boys academically in 1982 and pulled even in math and science in 2003," says Thompson, who is one of the experts pushing for the White House Council on Boys and Men. He is annoyed that the president set up a council for girls and women "and it never occurred to him to do one on men. "I'm in favor of more specific attention to boy underachievement in schools, the problems of male unemployment in this country and a whole number of health issues."

[Hemp_is_good]

1. Sad and ironic.. the increased focus on girls was supposed to improve for all

not make male the lesser gender.
me thinks there is a problem with the "equality" effort.

[4th law of robotics]

2. The patriarchy strikes again!

Seriously though, this is a real problem that terrifyingly few at the top seem willing to even discuss let alone address.

Girls are outperforming boys academically for a variety of reasons, predominately that fact that they are seen as normal and boys as defective girls as noted, and yet all gender based assistance goes towards girls.

This would make as much sense as fighting a disparity of blacks in higher education by setting aside scholarships and special programs to ensure whites and asians do well.

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. No one at the top will discuss it because no one at the bottom will acknowledge it.

Women are still fighting the equity battles of the 60's, and men still think they run things... not them personally of course, but guys... somewhere.