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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because girls dominate college admissions now. They have stronger applications and do better overall. As a result, many colleges have more females than males (UVA is an example).  So, they admit males at a higher rate to combat this. Good examples are Brown, Wesleyan, and Vassar.[/quote]

yeah but my DD doesn't want to attend college that are either male dominated or female dominated. she wants a normal mix and colleges are in the sales business of selling their product! colleges can recruit better applicants long-term if they can show they have a healthy mix of genders. so I don't blame college for gender balancing at the margins.

[b]we also should examine what it is about our education system and brain development that's favoring girls.[/b]

I do think boys benefit from entering kindergarten older.[/quote]

This has been discussed many times on this site.

Schools are more flexible than ever. Remember stories of how strict schools were when our parents were enrolled? And yet boys thrived. They were valedictorians and honors students and leaders.

Classrooms have become remarkably more relaxed, less punitive, more walking time, more accepting of boy wiggles. All to accommodate their learning styles.

And yet boys are floundering.

The schools are not to blame, you parents are. Stop letting your boys play video games all the time! While boys are playing video games when they’re little, girls are playing make believe and dolls and crafting, coordinating, role playing, reading, drawing, and cooperating on teams.

Boys are held to a lower standard.  You a rarely see a boy who enjoys to read these days, and that didn’t always used to be the case. [/quote]

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