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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a woman with a doctoral degree and I have 3 sons (no daughters). Agree absolutely with PP. Many parts of primary and secondary education are not set up for boys to succeed. So many teacher complaints about my sons not sitting still, not paying attention (when they were 5-6 years old). Why can they not just add a second recess? Our HS sends like 95% of kids to four-year college, much higher than my high school did, but my high school had tons of classes in shop, multiple cooking classes, and bused some upperclassmen (boys and girls) to the closest vocational institute to learn a trade.

My middle son was assessed for ADHD, twice, after teacher concerns (he was my calmest, most self-sufficient child at home). Both times, he was determined not to have ADHD (eventually it came out he had very slow processing speed). Teachers assumed his boredom was a pathological level of inattentiveness, I guess.

Last year when my oldest was applying for local scholarships, I was kind of surprised to see there were still scholarships only open to girls. (There were none only open to boys). Why is this still the case when girls already go to college and grad school at higher rates?

Now I’m helping my junior get his college list together, I decided to keep track of the gender ratio. Did this for my oldest who was looking at STEM schools (which of course leaned male) but I guess I was surprised, looking now a wider variety of schools, HOW many schools are so disparate. UCLA is 61% female. Texas 58%. Florida St. 57%. UVM 63%. I expected SLACs to be that way, but not large state schools.

It’s hard and my boys do seem to internalize that they’re not “doing well enough” by whatever standards are set by the school, and which the girls are meeting at much higher rates.[/quote]

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