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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have made it culturally cool to be a smart girl now. [/quote]

We have not made it cool though to be a smart boy.

And our schools are failing boys generally. They are set up for girls to succeed and sit quietly in classrooms, but not for boys to jump around and learn, tactilely or experientially.[/quote]

This is such blatant goal-post moving. For the entire history of formal education until 25 years ago, boys did just fine in school. Girls were supposed to be ill-suited for academic rigor. Too delicate, too emotional, or whatever. Now that girls excel in the environment that was [i]built for boys[/i], it's unfair to boys? That's some bullshit. [/quote]

Simmer down. 
I’ve got two girls and a boy. I’m just reporting what I’m seeing. In a private K-12 school as well. Very wealthy population.[/quote]

Don't start a fight you can't finish. School isn't failing your son, you and your son are failing school in a way that didn't happen in previous generations.

Pin your hopes on your daughters and plan for trade school for your son. That's what happens when he can't hack the academics, and there's no shame in it. (Don't worry, you can pretend at the country club that he's an artist.) But blaming schools and girls when the only thing that changed was boys' ability to cope? Hell no. [/quote]

What are you moaning about?

My son is at an Ivy. I’m the one who posted earlier. I’m just trying to offer you a counter perspective. Perhaps you can’t take a minute to open your eyes.

This is what I see with his friends and their cohort. Including one brilliant kid who recently dropped out of college. 35 ACT.[/quote]

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