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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK- just a working theory with no data to back this up… but the “whole word” reading approach really hosed a whole swath of kids of which boys are typically more vulnerable readers than girls.  Fast forward… your crew of struggling readers that were never taught phonics all the way and have now always been behind the 8 ball in the classroom.  Setting the stage for poor academics and more likely disinterested in the high school classroom that was already set up for girls.  By 12th grade these boys are done and want to be working or outside the classroom where they can be successful at something.  [/quote]

Or it could be that they dumbed down the SAT, which boys were traditionally much better at, so that girls could get comparable "high" scores in order to make some of them have the same scores as the top scoring boys. Lowering the difficulty ceiling to harmonize the genders. This is why a score of 1350 30 years ago equals 1550+ today. Now every kid is grade inflated to a 4.5 GPA and they all have 1500s in their SATs so you can't differentiate who is actually smart. When that doesn't work, you just say screw it and make applications TO and holistically select for certain people through essays and gender-specific ECs and awards that only girls are allowed to partake in.[/quote]

"Every" kid has a 4.5 and 1500's? I don't think so.[/quote]

I guess you're not looking at kids applying to T10 schools where many of these high stats kids are denied. In the past a 1500 would have been almost automatic when that meant 99+ %ile.[/quote]

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