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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing is though that high school and middle school favors girls because they go through puberty earlier and that leads to changes in the brain that are advantageous for doing well in school. Boys do catch up eventually, but the current system does make them look like weaker college applicants (esp now that it is so competitive to get into top colleges). [/quote]

I’m not disagreeing, but when I was in high school boys were just as competitive academically as the girls.  There was not this gender imbalance in the classroom.  Boys today are particularly disengaged from academics - so I do believe something additional is going on. Chalking it up to simple brain maturity means you’re leaving other explanations on the table. [/quote]

As school in general has become more drill and kill with lots of worksheets and less fun and creative work and more teaching to the test, it favors girls and boys disengage. As my 7th grade son said in reference to a friend of his who is very smart but constantly forgets to bring the correct materials to class or finish his homework "there are lots of smart boys, but the smart girls are better at school." Their school doesn't allow kids to carry their backpacks around and they only have a couple times a day to go to their lockers, so even that requires a level of organization I didn't have to have in middle school. [/quote]

My experience has been completely different— teaching methods used to be more “kill & drill” when we were young.  Most schools have moved toward project-based assignments, collaboration, and application of knowledge instead of memorization/drills. [b]Teachers are also more accommodating now! [/b]Many allow kids to talk quietly, listen to music on headphones, and have a higher tolerance for noise & movement.

So, again, something else is going on. I’m not sure why boys are faltering, but I think it can be fixed.

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+1 Schools are bending over backwards to accommodate boys. [/quote]

:roll:  How exactly is that happening? I'm not seeing it. Schools are bending over backwards to make learning and especially reading hateful to boys.[/quote]

How is reading hateful to boys? Didn't they used to teach boys to read but not girls? Aren't most classical authors men? There is no reason boys can't read at the same level as girls. You have to be able to sit and concentrate in order to read. Boys need to learn how to do that. [/quote]

Literally half the books my sophomore in HS was assigned were about rape. [/quote]

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