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BOY PROBLEMS Young men are struggling, and we wanted to figure out just how badly and why.
.nytimes ^ | May 13, 2025 | The Morning

Posted on 05/15/2025 8:49:44 AM PDT by daniel1212

Boys enter kindergarten lagging behind girls in both academic readiness and behavior. A majority of teenagers agree that boys are more disruptive...girls get better grades, have more leadership roles and speak up more in class.

A bar chart shows the results of a survey of teenagers: 64 percent say boys are more disruptive in school, 27 percent view girls as more like leaders, and 78 percent believe teachers have no gender preference for favorites.
Source: Pew Research Center | Survey was conducted Sept. 18-Oct. 10. Home-schooled teens were not included. Shares of respondents who did not offer an answer are not shown. | By The New York Times

In interviews, young men say that school never felt like a good fit for them, or that they got the sense that teachers didn’t like boys, and that this left them feeling discouraged or undervalued. By high school, girls are more likely to graduate on time — and more likely to go to college.

A line graph showing college attendance rates from 1960 to 2022. Women’s attendance increased from below men’s to 66 percent in 2020, while men’s attendance was at 57%.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics | Individuals ages 16-24 are counted here if enrolled in a two- or four-year college by October in the year of their high school graduation or equivalent. | By The New York Times

Young men are struggling in their mental health and transitions to adulthood, too. What’s going on here? I’m reporting a series on boys, the first installment of which published today. I’d love to hear your experiences... Tell The Times what you think here. — Claire Cain Miller

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: contraceptives; era; feminism; transgender; womenleaders
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To: daniel1212

60 some odd years ago, it was deemed the girls were lagging behind boys in school. The curriculum was changed so that girls were given a benefit. Turns out girls learn in different ways than boys do. Girls can just sit still and receive instruction and be good with that. Not so with boys. Boys need to experience, experiment, and often find out the hard way. I say we go back to separate boys and girls schools through high school and teach them in the way they learn best. Uniforms too. And we knew better than to sass any of our teachers. Todays kids need to be taught respect.


41 posted on 05/15/2025 9:38:39 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: daniel1212

Low T, low IQ, too much screen time, and told they’re evil for 16 years straight.


42 posted on 05/15/2025 9:39:09 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: daniel1212
boys are more disruptive...girls get better grades, have more leadership roles and speak up more in class.

Funny, that's how I remember school in the 50's-60's too. There was always that girl in class that would remind the teacher of something that we'd hope that she would have forgotten.

43 posted on 05/15/2025 9:39:10 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: daniel1212

The fact that boys are diagnosed with the BS ADHD condition and drugged at a rate much higher than girls are should have been a clue. Teachers are mainly mental health counselors now and their destructive college training makes them mess up boys.


44 posted on 05/15/2025 9:39:55 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: bk1000

Boys used to sit still through school too, but they took away the discipline and, with girls outshining them, too often the will.


45 posted on 05/15/2025 9:40:18 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: bk1000
Todays kids need to be taught respect.

Respect is earned.

46 posted on 05/15/2025 9:40:29 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ClearCase_guy
We face a demographic collapse.

So we have three likely outcomes.1) Fall of Rome.

2) Great Awakening (Modern day Israel)

3)Conquest by Islam (Modern day UK)

47 posted on 05/15/2025 9:41:18 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: redangus
The Feminists and the Left have been working towards this goal for 50 years. Looks like they’ve succeeded. The war on boys is real.

At least Gen Z is finally figuring it out. It helps that you have "bloggers" like Andrew Tate who's telling them what's going on.

48 posted on 05/15/2025 9:43:18 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: bk1000

Bring back Shop Class.


49 posted on 05/15/2025 9:43:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Seruzawa

Parents push for it because after two years so diagnosed they can be put on the pertpetual SS gravy train.


50 posted on 05/15/2025 9:44:36 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: pfflier
Funny, that's how I remember school in the 50's-60's too


51 posted on 05/15/2025 9:45:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: daniel1212

The public school is sub-optimal for male learning and development.


52 posted on 05/15/2025 9:47:16 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

According to the braindead lefties, being heterosexual is bad! But being part of the alphabet mafia is good?! What. The. Bleep.


53 posted on 05/15/2025 9:48:42 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: dfwgator

The sooner the better.,


54 posted on 05/15/2025 9:49:04 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: daniel1212

I still remember 1968 Presidential front runner Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian immigrant. In the news media lead hysteria that followed blame was placed everywhere.
TV shows. (dumbed down to kiddie shows)
Movies, (New ratings system which unleashed the most vile blood soaked sex movies ever)
Guns.(1968 gun control law)
Pulp fiction.(changed their blood soaked covers)
Comic books. (a rating system allowed worse books to be printed)
BOYS in school being too masculine. It was then planned that boys would be given medication in schools to calm them down and make them more feminine. Glad I graduated in 1964 before this madness took place.


55 posted on 05/15/2025 9:49:10 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: daniel1212
True, but which sex is predominately determining educational models?

The program administration should be the same sex as the student body. Men know what boys need more than women, and vice-versa. That used to be common sense which isn't very common today.
56 posted on 05/15/2025 9:53:32 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: 9YearLurker

That’s just awful and sick.


57 posted on 05/15/2025 9:54:32 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Dr. Franklin

58 posted on 05/15/2025 9:56:03 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: oldbrowser

No you don’t. You know the answer.


59 posted on 05/15/2025 9:58:55 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: daniel1212

Men are NOT defective women. They are older, stronger creatures with one less rib.

Women were punished with hormones, cycles and childbirth because of the fall.

Men were punished with feminists because Adam didn’t kill the snake.


60 posted on 05/15/2025 9:59:34 AM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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