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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The show is entirely fictional. Nothing like it (cute, polite white boy randomly stabs classmate) ever happened in the UK. The show is slander against boys.

What it does capture is a real phenomenon where boys are increasingly rude to their female teachers, as expressed in this NYT op Ed:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/adolescence-misogyny-schools.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Schools have been hell for boys for too long to count. Girls are doing better on most every measure of academic success. Is it any wonder boys are opting out or lashing out? Schools are no longer set up for them. Adolescence is anti boy propaganda that will only make the problem worse by instilling a false sense of righteousness in the female educational establishment.[/quote]

People always say this, but my question is when were schools EVER set up for boys? When my father went to school, teachers smacked him with rulers. They had to be obedient and quiet. They had leadership positions and got the best grades and went on to college. Girls were not encouraged to go on to university.

Nowadays, it’s flipped. Classroom rules are very loose. Students are allowed to do anything. Chat, walk around, call out, use their phone. It’s a disruptive environment.

I disagree that classrooms favor girls these days. I think they favor boys and yet they’re still doing poorly. Why? [/quote]

I have two ADHD kids, one boy, one girl.   EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING.  Also verbal social skills.  The prefrontal cortex of girls brains are age faster than boys. So, girls, on average are a couple of years ahead of boys in executive functioning than boys. You take 6-7 classes, plus sports, plus leadership plus college apps plus volunteering and cram them all into a day.  Now do with lagging EF. I thought boys and girls started with the same baseline to.  Until I had one of each. Then it was like— ohhhh.  Girls are also more verbally adept and socialize through talking more (which is less nature and. More interesting, nuanced nature-nurture thing.  As a society, we still encourage girls, more than boys, to express their feelings.  And tells boys to “man up”).

I never would have said this before having. Boy, then a girl, and seeing them, then their friends, and having mom friends who had both, or just one gender. But, in I do see the pluses of single gender education in 2025– and at this point, I think it would benefit boys more than girls (not all boys or all girls, but for many boys and girls, it would be a plus to not be competing and to have classrooms that focused on how they learn best). [/quote]

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