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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Girls have higher GPAs than boys on average. [/quote]

A lot more women teacher in high school. [/quote]
The girls have better ECs too. They mature quicker and are more organized. It’s no surprise that they do better than the boys.[/quote]

You’re both right.  The elementary and middle school years of sit still, be quiet and pay attention with, what, 30 minutes of recess, does not jibe well with male developmental timelines.  The boys come into high school with delayed executive functioning skills.  So teachers, especially female teachers, often treat boys like broken girls.  [/quote]

People say this all the time, but this is the school system that was designed by men, for boys. Nothing has changed: the length of recess, the age of kids when they start high school. Are we suggesting that boys have had some sort of gene shift in the past 30 years? [/quote]

One thing I can think of is up until some point in time (the 60s?  70s?  80s?) it wasn't really expected or an option for women to go to college.  Many of the women in my mother's generation didn't go.  It was common the son got sent to college and the daughter didn't.  My father went to college and his sister didn't.  So maybe little girls were killing it even way back when and they just weren't given the opportunity for college.[/quote]

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