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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boys frontal lobes are years behind girls in development.  So looking at grades they got when they were 14 is going to disadvantage a lot of boys … and they won’t even apply when they see the acattergram for their gpa.  
It’s actually pretty depressing as the mom of a teen boy.  He’s really smart and is very iijterested in a lot of things.  His IQ is very high and he takes all the hardest classes because he likes learning. [b] But his grades are very mediocre because he just isn’t organized with respect turning in work, making up missed tests, etc,[/b] the way his sisters are.  His sister (who is not any smarter than him) is at a top 10 college, but he’ll be lucky to get into something in the 50-100 range.  I feel like school now has a LOT of check the box assignments — much more than when I was in HS — and that all advantages the kids with high executive function.  The girls have a huge advantage neurotically in EF at ages 14-16, at least.  [/quote]

I have a 14 year old boy and a 17 year old girl and I just can’t understand this, to be honest. Kids are given so much grace these days with respect to turning in work whenever they want and retaking tests. It didn’t used to be like this and the boys seemed to do much better back then.[/quote]

I do think that more liberal late policies can set up kids (any kid with EF issues) to fail on developing skills, I also think the digital classwork is a blessing & a curse.

While I had to keep track of due dates in a calendar myself, there weren’t many and if I did have to turn something in, the physical paper was a cue to finish it & turn it in.

My kids often report their device freezes upon upload & they forget to go back & make sure it’s submitted. Or it’s a class assignment that they did, but in the hustle of packing up, they forget to submit it. And there does seem to be a lot of small assignments to do. And this goes both ways as teachers have told my kids something that they need to complete an assignment will be uploaded that day & it doesn’t complete & the teacher doesn’t notice.

But, truly, if people want more 50-50 non-STEM campuses, then you’re going to need to accept high achieving girls being declined while mid dudes get accepted. Boys both apply less & generally have lower acceptance rates.

If you want quality men, that starts much earlier than 12th grade [/quote]

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