Boys are not all right

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From kindergarten on, boys lag girls in every grade in every subject except math where they perform similarly.

Something somewhere has gone horribly wrong.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2024/01/14/from-kindergarten-to-college-girls-are-outperforming-boys/

Girls are outperforming boys at all levels of education from kindergarten to college, according to new research.

The findings will reinforce fears that not only are boys lagging behind girls by the time they graduate, but that they are at a disadvantage right from the start of their formal schooling.

While the high school gender gap has caused concern for some time, the Cambridge University study based on U.K. data is one of the few to identify the differences at all stages of education

The only subject where boys consistently did better than girls was math, but this was only apparent at the highest levels of attainment.

“The most striking pattern from the analysis was that sex gaps were present from the earliest stages of education to the latest,” said Matthew Carroll, who led the research.

Girls have always out performed boys until graduate
school when males then out perform females. What difference does it make because it's still a white man's world!

What planet are you living on?

Clueless. You're children are paying the price for your cluelessness.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s that we cannot let them play outside unattended, for fear of having CPS called. What’s worse, is that there are so few peers to play with in the neighborhood. They’re in after-care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s that we cannot let them play outside unattended, for fear of having CPS called. What’s worse, is that there are so few peers to play with in the neighborhood. They’re in after-care.

If your kids are of the age for after care, yes they should be supervised outside. Parenting must be so hard on you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the above PPs parents of girls only? I have a boy who is and will be well above average due to luck and privilege. But I can’t imagine being so cavalier and dismissive of other boy parents.

Give me a call when the President and Vice President are both women, the Supreme Court are all women, Wall Street and industry are led by women, the military, science, academia, medicine, etc.

Boys are fine. Even mediocre boys and men are advantaged over women.

Current boys, have nothing to do with the advantages given to men of previous generations. It’s the type of widespread attitude that PP has that’s caused the younger generations of boys to have all sorts of issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pumping them full of Ritalin and Adderall isn’t helping, when the better thing to do would be to get them off their Xboxes and outside running around.

OMG THIS!

BOY MOM. No devices and no drugs.

I hope you continue your "no medicine" philosophy when you have literal heart failure to match your metaphorical heart failure.

[Anonymous]

Maybe boys just aren't as smart as girls, and that's OK.

[Anonymous]

OMG So sick of #boymoms and this stupid narrative. The boys are just fine. We live in a fing patriatrichy, mama bears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS was behind in reading until 3rd grade. Now in HS, he is ranked within the top 5 of his class and got a 5 on the History AP exam.

The problem with our society is the emphasis on sports with boys. While my son participates in sports, we never watch games at home and I’m not sure if anyone in our family could tell you what sport the Wizards play. We DGAF about sports! My DS is nationally ranked in his sport but we would be disappointed if he played in college.

How many others in the top 5 are boys? Or top 10 or top 20?

Exactly.

My son says 6 of his male friends are in the top 5. They boys are doing great!

[Anonymous]

Why....is this a bad thing?

[Anonymous]

Porn really screwing things up for boys.

[Anonymous]

And yet, men still run the g*d d*mn world.

[Anonymous]

Boys are being held back by feminization and medication (Ritalin for being “antsy”). Let them be boys, have them spend time with fathers and other boys, and they’ll be just fine. They develop later academically, so don’t let them drop out, and let them read / do what they’re interested in. They’ll catch up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boys will be just fine. Don’t be silly.

You do not understand, or rather, do not believe, science?

It’s ok PP. we have become accustomed to people like you, who do not believe:

- science is real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe boys just aren't as smart as girls, and that's OK.

Nah. There are more genius level IQ males than females. Females are just better at conforming and doing schoolwork.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289604000492?via%3Dihub


You make the classic mistake of conflating intelligence/IQ with education. It doesn’t take a high IQ to regurgitate stuff you only memorized for school because the teacher told you to. It takes far more intelligence to create things and make new discoveries by solving problems there is no textbook for nor any teacher to help you with.

[Anonymous]

Does excelling academically from a young age actually help girls? No matter how well girls do in school, they run into the same roadblocks in their careers, and the correlation between slightly higher grades and test scores, and professional success, just isn't there.

I mean, if we want to talk about whether boys are less happy than they used to be, or struggling more with executive function, I think that's an interesting conversation. But the fact that boys, on average, lag behind girls in school? I don't think it really impacts them much, and I think the pressure on girls to excel at school can be negative.

I wouldn't say the kids are all right, but I don't lose sleep over the fact that boys are getting slightly lower grades and test scores than girls in K-12.