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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. The bar has gotten lower and lower, but I guess it’s not low enough.[/quote]

My dad who was educated by nuns, likes to say he's glad he had daughters because boys need to be beaten into submission. Perhaps the removal of corporal punishment is the liberalism PP is bemoaning? None of this is my experience, I have a son and daughter who've both made it to college. DD has graduated with honors, and it's too soon to know if DS will match that, but he is plenty studious. If he's had a beef with some of the classroom management along the way, that's for him to sort. Actually, both had some of the same teachers, and mostly agreed in their gripes. This included male teachers with weird foibles, too.[/quote]

I'm a man, and when I was a boy I was frequently beaten by teachers and by my parents. I completely disagree that boys need to be beaten. I have never needed to hit my sons. However, it ought to be obvious that boys need a different teaching style than girls, and you motivate boys differently from girls. I guess it's not obvious, though, at least to women, because women teachers invariably use the same teaching style on boys as they use on girls. This doesn't work but women teachers don't care, or just think the problem is the boys and not their teaching.[/quote]

Teachers don’t have time or resources to differentiate their teaching style for every type of learner. (Because it goes way past girls vs. boys.) If whatever’s happening isn’t working for your boy, you can seek out single-sex education or homeschool.[/quote]

Lol. Same person who would recommend “culturally relevant teaching” that caters to people of color and affirms diverse gender identities. [b]But when it comes to assigning books half the class might be interested in, [/b]there’s not enough time or money. So try home schooling. We see right through you people. Why? Because we are smarter than you. [/quote]

Again, what are these titles that boys are dying to read, but for some reason not allowed to? [/quote]

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