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[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]

What do you mean built for boys?  They modified the environment to benefit the girls. What do you know, you can't serve both well at the same time.[/quote]

Ranks of desks and the requirement to sit quietly at them. A single instructor delivering a lecture. Subject matter blocks. Tests. The way school has been for hundreds of years, long before girls were even allowed through the door.

When our grandparents went to school there was no milling around the room, no sitting in the beanbag to calm down, no phones/games. A transistor radio would get you suspended, and now kids openly bring their Switch to class. (My god, the crap they let boys get away with... My daughters told me about the behavior tolerated from boys in their school and I was appalled.)

The double standard is wild, and still the parents of boys complain all day. Dress code is the glaring example, but girls' tone is policed as well, and their academic work is assessed unfairly. My daughter and her boyfriend compared the notes from a teacher on a written assignment, and my daughter was docked a point for a misspelling. Her boyfriend had misspelled the same word, and the teacher let it go without comment.

Raise better boys. That's all I can tell you. I personally am DONE accommodating mediocre men. [/quote]

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