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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Women control k-12 education and now college.[/b] They design the experience and set the expectations.  When girls do relatively worse on standardized tests, they de-emphasize standardized tests. Everything about education these days is hostile to masculine energy which is of course considered toxic. Look at the books your son has to read in English class. The college application process itself favors girls- cultivating relationships with teachers for recommendations where they divulge all their feelings and dreams, getting involved in all these silly organizations. The system is dominated by women and rigged against boys. [/quote]

Leadership positions at both k-12 and college level are overwhelmingly male.

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"Leadership" at K-12 doesn't even matter. If your kid's school has a male principal, your kid will never even see him. The teachers your kids interact with all day every day are overwhelmingly female. In short, as the PP said, women control K-12 education [i]where it matters[/i] - at the pit face - they control the experience from end to end. That female teachers have failed boys is certainly a plausible argument based on the outcome.

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My son has done great in public school with almost entirely female teachers. No one’s failed him. Expectations for behavior and academic performance begin at home. So many parents letting their boys play video games and watch YouTube for hours and hours every day and then complaining that the school system is rigged against them. Pathetic.[/quote]

Your education has failed you if you think muh anecdote means anything. Writ large, the education system has clearly failed boys. And that system is run by women.

Oh yeah, who makes the rules and sets the expectations at home? Also women. [/quote]

You are fooling yourself. Boys have almost always been educated by women.  The system is not failing boys. Rather boys are rejecting education. [/quote]

Boys are very definitely educated differently now than they were when I was a kid.

And if one accepts the (asinine and false) claim that boys are rejecting education, I guess that means your conclusion is "oh well let's give up on boys then"? One could note that over the past decades, whenever girls are "underrepresented" in any educational area (most notably STEM) there is a huge push to fix this and to encourage girls to study the subject. [b]But when boys fall behind, the reaction from women is shrug, [/b]"oh well, what can you do."

Disgusting.[/quote]

I am a woman in STEM and volunteer and mentor young women to encourage them to follow my path.  I also mentor any young men that want to speak to me - but women seek me out more which totally makes sense.

If I were a man, and saw that many boys didn’t do well in school and had some thoughts about why, I would roll up my sleeves and volunteer/find ways to contribute.  I am not sure why you are blaming women rather than men who should be stepping forward with ideas.

The boy I care most about, my son, is doing great in school.  He is not failing.  He had to read some truly bozo books (his words) last year.  Like “the secret life of bees”.  I was unsympathetic - suck it up and get your stuff done.  You aren’t going to like everything you are asked to do in life - no time like the present to learn how.  No different than what I said to my daughter.  I don’t coddle him (and neither does his father). I expect from him what I expect from my daughter.  Because of my personal experience with him, I have nothing to contribute to the broader societal issue we are discussing. So I would hope men who see the issue and can provide some mentoring/ideas step up like I did for women in STEM. [/quote]

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