The above poster actually spent quite a lot of time looking into this question and came up with a theory that fits the facts. I didn’t shut down the conversation - where do you get off making all these charges against me? Maybe question your own attitude towards women, how much bias you have and stop projecting so much. I’m pretty annoyed.
When you look at the numbers, the difference by gender is much smaller than the difference by other factors - socioeconomics and race. The difference in graduation rates between girls and boys is 2%. The difference between white boys and black boys is double that at 4%. The difference between white boys and Hispanic boys is quadruple at 8%. It’s not about who has a higher count of the plague. It’s about context. If the gap between white and black boys is 2%, and for white boys and white girls it’s 8%, then the numbers show that there is systemic oppression of white boys. That’s not the case.
I do see a much larger percentage of boys post-high school in labor jobs than girls. I also see the gender gap in education widening at the lower end of the income scale. This all tells me that boys, more than girls, are driven to drop out of school to pursue labor jobs. Women, more than men, are driven to stay in school and avoid dropping out. Boys go into labor jobs and girls do not, explains the 2% difference. It explains differences with other countries. It explains differences across race. It explains the difference by income. It is a better explanation than that women are using their institutional power as teachers to oppress boys.
As for the uptick in drop-outs for white boys, it’s tied to an uptick in white poverty rates. It’s not exactly a mystery. If I were a lower class white boy, I wouldn’t be asking for more interactive classes. I don’t think poor Hispanic boys would care about that either. What they really need are jobs, or financial support. Seriously, who exactly are these interactive classes for.
i'm beyond annoyed
9 Signs We Have a “Boy Crisis”
When people speak of a “boy crisis,” they don’t mean the post-punk band from Brooklyn, or the like-totally-awful drama a teenage girl is going through with a kid on the lacrosse team. The term refers to the country’s seeming dilemma of underdevelopment and academic underachievement in young males. Although the issue began to surface as far back as the ’80s,
some have held firm in their refusal to acknowledge a reason for concern for our next generation of men. But to us, the tell-tale signs are there to prove American society has a serious problem.
1. Boys are twice as likely to be diagnosed for ADHD as girls:
Probably the most commonly cited evidence of a problem among boys is the alarming rate of diagnosis of attention deficit disorder and the corresponding prescription of medications to curb it.
According to the CDC, now more than one in nine boys (11.2%) ages 3-17 are diagnosed with ADHD at some point. (The fact that they even diagnose 3-year-olds for short attention spans should be enough to alarm parents and at least give pause to the rest of us.) Over the same age range, only 5.5% of girls will be diagnosed with ADHD, but the rates are trending up for both in recent years.
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boys are dropping out of schools in high numbers. The high school dropout rate for boys and girls is now one in four, but it’s boys that are keeping that rate high.
Black students have suffered from especially low graduation rates,
averaging out around 50% but sinking as low as 21% in some communities around the country. Many possible causes exist to explain the problem: a celebration of anti-intellectualism in males in schools, Hollywood, and society in general; boys’ natural aversion to a classroom environment; a failure of teachers to allow “boys to be boys;” even claims that the educational system itself is geared toward helping studious, neat, conforming boys succeed while disenfranchising kids who don’t fit the standard mold. Whatever the reason, something will have to be done to get these guys to graduate.
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Boys’ grades lag behind girls’:One could make the argument that the education system has actually succeeded when it comes to preparing boys for standardized tests. They routinely record around twice the number of
perfect scores on SAT sections, even when more girls take the test. But for some reason, girls consistently earn better grades in their classes, and grades determine high school graduation, advanced class placement, and college admission. Boys take the lion’s share (70%) of D’s and
failing grades. Well-known psychologist Michael Thompson
recently pointed out that 11th-grade boys now write at the same level as 8th-grade girls. These facts can’t be ignored by simply applauding girls for closing the gap in school; they’re signs that boys are in crisis mode when it comes to grades.
see the other points here
https://collegestats.org/2012/08/9-signs-we-have-a-boy-crisis/
