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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having a boy really opened my eyes to this issue. My well behaved, introvert, academically inclined DS is completing college a semester early with nearly perfect gpa, and even he ran into the bias against boys in the educational system. He had some wonderful teachers through the years, but he had some that clearly just didn’t like boys. I had friends with boys who were naturally rowdier who really struggled with it.

It has nothing to do with how they do on their academic assignments, but teachers who expect boys to act like girls and penalize them when they don’t and then wonder why they don’t like school. My son has had a great academic career, but I regret not sending him to an all boys school through at least middle school. [/quote]

As the parent of another well-behaved, introverted, and academically inclined boy, this is very interesting to me. Mine is a HS senior, and it does seem to me that throughout his educational journey thus far, his teachers have absolutely loved that he “acts like a girl” yet also has an outlier IQ that is typically more prevalent among boys. Best of both worlds from a teacher’s perspective, I suppose.[/quote]

You two need to take this conversation elsewhere. Not sure what an "outlier IQ" is. Mine son's last neuropsych put him at 138--with super low processing speed. But treated like absolute trash throughout his childhood because he did not act like a girl. He is extremely scarred by it and did not thrive in college. Hoping to not fail any classes in his last semester at a top 25 university, jobless and ready to be done with school forever.[/quote]

DP. Sorry, but if your kid was really treated like “absolute trash” throughout out his education by one teacher after another, he must have had considerable behavioral issues. Teachers can only handle so much. [/quote]

Well, we were told by one teacher that she was frustrated that he seemed to zone out and that the day before, he got up in class to sharpen his pencil while another child was speaking. He was not rude, violent, chaotic, or misbehaved. He has ADHD and was an introvert who wasn't able to show how much smarter he was than every other kid in the class. He was sent to the "red line" in kindergarten time and time again because the teacher said he was fidgeting too much. That's when we had the first neuropsych (his Pre-k teacher told us to have him evaluated because he had "too much imagination"). The psychologist testing him spent a day in his kindergarten class and confirmed he behaved exactly as a 5-year-old boy should in kindergarten and that his teacher had the wrong expectations of him. She said he acted in line with most other boys in the class--except for the few who were clearly on stimulants and sitting like zombies. So keep assuming my kid was awful. He wasn't. He just wasn't a girl and wasn't drugged up.[/quote]

Again, I’m truly sorry for your DC’s experience, but you make it sound like all boys have ADHD, which is simply untrue. Were you offered any accommodations for your son’s diagnosis? It *is* inappropriate to get up in the middle of class to sharpen a pencil while another child is speaking. It is also offensive to imply that a boy who does sit still in class must be on drugs. [/quote]

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