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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because my car died today, I met a very well-spoken and personable young AAA truck driver today.  He was college aged and quite intelligent. I'm not sure what drove his decision, but his career choices (and those of others like him) are not helping the college dating scene for our daughters!

It's also impacting the experience of girls who are applying to college. Because there are so many more girls than boys applying to schools, and admissions folks try to "balance" gender by accepting a higher percentage of male applicants, admissions are much, much more competitive for girls at many popular schools such as Brown, Vassar etc. 
I guess if you want to meet boys, go to trade school! [/quote]

The issue is not lifting up women.

The issue is that over the past decade, there has been a coordinated effort to push down males and to discourage them from achieving.  Most of the qualities that create good men, strong husbands, positive fathers and prociders have been branded as evil in the name of "toxic masculinity"

I have all sons.  They are great kids who I have been raising to be good husbands, fathers and providers.  They have had multiple teachers over the years openly disparage men, including regularly slamming "privileged white men"  Is is any wonder that many of the young men, growing up in an environment where they and things that make quality adult men are openly disparaged in their schools  and media, are now not seeking to achieve?[/quote]

I’m sure those teachers graded your boys fairly just like they graded the girls…[/quote]

Maybe, or maybe not.

But you don't continuously disparage one particular group of people (in this case, young men) in a school setting during the formative teen years, and then act surprised that you created a negative result. (Fewer boys applying to college)

There has to be a swing back to the center.  The college stats prove this.[/quote]

Telling the truth that one group has systemic privilege built into a historical system isn't disparaging--it's just telling the truth about history and power.  It's not something to personalize, rather to see how it impacts life for everyone.  I'm a parent of white sons too and it's been nothing but good for them to think this through and see the world more clearly.  It hasn't diminished their ambition or drive, they want to make the world a better place and they still want to achieve their personal, educational and career goals.  I think you're just making up excuses.   
College stats don't "prove" some narrative you made up in your head about why.  If I were making up stories about explaining why fewer men are applying to college (or lasting in college) I would more likely settle in on video games--they are designed by men to be addictive to other men and to have them express their ambition, drive, and power in an on-line world.  Throw in easy access to p*rn and all the needs that they use to seek ambition in the real world are met without leaving their couch.

In reality, there's been an steady upward increase of men obtaining a college diploma: in 1950 7.3% of men got a college diploma, 1960 over 10%, 1970 14.1%, 1980, 20.9%,  1990 24.4%, 2000 27.8%, 2010  30.3%, 2020, 36.7%.  It's just that women experienced a greater rate of increase so that's causing an imbalance. So if you're looking for explanatory options--you need to explain why women are more motivated to go to college.

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