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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ok, I have 3 daughters and the reason boys fail at American schools has been very clear to me - because curricula are dumbed down and academic competition is suppressed. Classes are taught by overwhelmingly female teachers who know very little and prioritize discipline and busywork.

We are immigrants but moved back to our old country mainly because schools are much better. And boy, do boys thrive here. They are so much better academically (about equal with girls) and more confident. Society needs both men and women, and men and women need each other. [/quote]

Teachers have been overwhelmingly female in the US for more than a century.

I do agree the curriculum has been dumbed down, but I don't see that as a reason boys in particular are generally less successful or less prepared.[/quote]

because they can't handle boredom as well as girls can. [/quote]
pretty sure 100 years ago, [b]school was boring, too[/b], yet more boys went to college than girls.  Oh, that's right, back then it wasn't really accepted for girls to be educated, whereas today, it is.[/quote]

This is what is so weird about "the feminizing of school hurts boys" argument. School used to be much more rigid, strict, focused on rote memorization, etc.  I would think by modern standards, children of both genders would find it far more boring.  And teaching in primary school has long been female - I think it went from about 2/3 in the 80's to about 70-75% in the last decade (hardly a huge leap). The difference is not that school is more strict/boring/female now but that barriers (some explicit) have come down for girls, and with more competition comes predictable results.[/quote]

rote memorization is not boring, it's challenging. just like being spanked in school is not boring. what is boring right now is the easiness and repetitiveness of it all. when you are scared, you are not bored.[/quote]
what? rote memorization is flipping boring.

Based on your statement maybe we should bring back corporal punishment in school, then maybe boys would do better.[/quote]

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