How to Make School Better for Boys

The Atlantic ^ | SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 | CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS

[rickmichaels]

I recently appeared on MSNBC’s The Cycle to discuss the new edition of my book The War Against Boys. The four hosts were having none of it. A war on boys? They countered with the wage gap and the prominence of men across the professions. One of them concluded, “I don’t think the patriarchy is under any threat.”

The MSNBC skeptics are hardly alone in dismissing the plight of boys and young men. Even those who acknowledge that boys are losing in school argue that they’re winning in life. But the facts are otherwise. American boys across the ability spectrum are struggling in the nation’s schools, with teachers and administrators failing to engage their specific interests and needs. This neglect has ominous implications not only for the boy's social and intellectual development but for the national economy, as policy analysts are just beginning to calculate.

As the United States moves toward a knowledge-based economy, school achievement has become the cornerstone of lifelong success. Women are adapting; men are not. Yet the education establishment and federal government are, with some notable exceptions, looking the other way.

[vladimir998]

step 1: Put the girls in another school by themselves.

[fso301]

Boys of single mothers go to school where they are under the responsibility of mostly women teachers who in many cases are single mothers themselves. Boys want to be boys and when their single mothers and single mother teachers don’t know how to relate to the boys, the result is ritalin for the boys.

[Cyber Liberty]

The libs just say what Thurgood Marshall said: “Now it’s OUR turn.”

[goodwithagun]

The preschool-kindergarten to which we send our son is a private Catholic school run by Italian nuns. Sister could be 85, or she could be 95, I really don’t know! It is fantastic however, and they insist that boys be permitted to be boys and that girls be “little flowers.” That’s not to say that girls may only play house and boys may only rough house, but the nuns and volunteer staff do focus on proper gender issues. If my son picked up a doll they wouldn’t freak out. My son is extremely rambunctious, borderline ADHD actually, and they work so well with us when it comes to his activity level. They know and understand that he must burn off as much energy as possible as often as possible. I frequently walk in and see him wrestling with other boys. The contact is friendly and playful. The nuns would never condone actual fighting!

[Jess Kitting]

Yet the education establishment and federal government are, with some notable exceptions, looking the other way.

They are not just looking the other way, they are actively orchestrating the demise of traditional males and their roles in society.

[Mrs. Don-o]

This article in its entirety is very good read; with V in mind.

[US Navy Vet]

“the result is ritalin for the boys” and “Heterosexually.

[JRandomFreeper]

Power tools and explosives would make school more interesting for boys. ;)

/johnny

[Mase]

Bookmark

[fini]

That is what chemistry sets and erector sets were used for.

[svcw]

To the headline: home school, so boys can be boys

[ansel12]

Women in the United States now earn 62 percent of associate’s degrees, 57 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 60 percent of master’s degrees, and 52 percent of doctorates. College admissions officers were at first baffled, then concerned, and finally panicked over the dearth of male applicants. If male enrollment falls to 40 percent or below, female students begin to flee. Officials at schools at or near the tipping point (American University, Boston University, Brandeis University, New York University, the University of Georgia, and the University of North Carolina, to name only a few) are helplessly watching as their campuses become like retirement villages, with a surfeit of women competing for a handful of surviving men.

The same effect will take place in the military.

As the military becomes more feminized, the men will start drifting off and not consider it as one of their interests.

[ALPAPilot]

Step 2. Force the parents to directly pay for that education

[Rodamala]

That is what “Smear the Queer”, “King of the Hill” and Football are for.

[Rodamala]

Do they even have Industrial Arts class anymore? I fondly remember a science teacher in HS helping us make Nitrogen Tri-Iodide in his lab after school.

He would undoubtedly have his teaching certification revoked these days for helping kids make CONTACT EXPLOSIVES.

[ReformationFan]

That was the liberals’ goal all along. Weaken the military and have us fall into communism.

[Standing Wolf]

They are not just looking the other way, they are actively orchestrating the demise of traditional males and their roles in society.

Uh-oh! You told a secret!

In full seriousness: much as a great deal of what passes for "racial equality" is anti-white, so is a great deal of what passes for "gender equality" anti-male. Lots of extremely unhappy people are using the raw power of government to act out their fantasies.

[ReformationFan]

But the feminazis want school(and everything else in life) worse for boys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR2Pom1BMBk

[JRandomFreeper]

That was the same era that I got marked down on my daily grade because I didn't have my pocket knife with me. Imagine, getting in trouble for NOT having a pocket knife in school.

/johnny