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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing is though that high school and middle school favors girls because they go through puberty earlier and that leads to changes in the brain that are advantageous for doing well in school. Boys do catch up eventually, but the current system does make them look like weaker college applicants (esp now that it is so competitive to get into top colleges). [/quote]

I’m not disagreeing, but when I was in high school boys were just as competitive academically as the girls.  There was not this gender imbalance in the classroom.  Boys today are particularly disengaged from academics - so I do believe something additional is going on. Chalking it up to simple brain maturity means you’re leaving other explanations on the table. [/quote]

How old are you? At the *median*, which is relevant to the article and society overall, girls have outperformed boys in school for decades, since girls got rights. Some argue that the rigid sit-in-chair nature of school favors girls' temperaments. [/quote]

it's very hard to see these kinds of numbers in a single person's experience. your high school classroom might have been tracked .. you may have seen the same 20 boys in most of your classes, and 1 or 2 that didn't stand out wouldn't be noticeable to you, but that same 10% over a national base would be impactful.  similarly, you seeing a group of boys in your neighborhood still stuck on their games, esp post-covid is not a national test.  this is why we rely on bigger numbers. [/quote]

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