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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a white male, I'm more than willing to sit down and take my talking to.  It's hundreds of years overdue.  I mean that.

What I do get upset about is certain behaviors I see in the school system.  And it could be as minor as all the teachers getting together to wear "Girls Rule" shirts (one even worse the shirt that "Boys Drool)"

Or when my son was running for a position in the government, and his female classmate won, his teacher cheered and "said oh yay, I was hoping a girl would win."

Keep in mind, that this was after the current crop of school government didnt have any boys in it all.

There are many little micro-examples of boys feeling marginalized in school, and I have many many more, and we're seeing the long term results of that already in education, with fewer boys pursuing higher education[/quote]

Something to think about:  Traditionally/ historically large numbers of white men made decent incomes without having college degrees, and many, if not most colleges white males as the majority of their students.  When you say "fewer boys pursuing higher education", I'd appreciate it if you'd indicate the compared-to-what part.  One of the things that's in the mix here is that a larger and larger proportion of students are attending college in the first place.  I don't have data handy, but the percentage of white males who attend and/or who graduate from college now is probably much higher than it was at any point (with the possible exception of during the Vietnam war draft.).

What I'm trying to say is that instead of looking at the percentage of college students who are white males attending college, we need to also look at the percentage of white males in the population who attend /graduate from college.  We might very well find that the population percentage has continued to increase for white males.  I'm making these numbers up, but: Let's say that in 1950, 95% of the students attending Dartmouth may have been white males, vs 60 percent today.  At the same time, maybe 20% of white males in the US attended college, vs 50% today.  And even with this, the absolute number of white males attending Dartmouth today could exceed the number of white males attending in 1950 -- if the class size had increased.  I apologize for being pedantic, but it matters to be somewhat clear on the details -- so that we're all addressing the same issues.

A critical issue though perhaps should be supporting all students and all citizens in ways that support their/our potential.  As a country, we don't prioritize this.  Instead our tax dollars have benefited corporations and the military much more than it has the well-being of our people.  I guess it's too much to hope that we could all rise together?

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