Posted on 10/30/2023 2:33:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
They attend the same classes with access to the same programs, and even come from the same families. But girls consistently are outperforming boys, graduating at higher rates at public high schools around the country.
The gap between them is wide, often as wide as the achievement gap between students from affluent and low-income families, a problem that officials have tracked closely for years. But the reasons why boys are falling short are not as clear.
Interviews with students, educators and researchers point to several factors. Men generally can earn the same wages as women with less education. But boys also are more likely to face suspensions or other discipline knocking them off track, and they don’t pursue help as often when they face mental health challenges.
Some boys are fine when they first drop out, landing jobs providing steady incomes. But over the long term, lacking a high school degree can hold men back. Studies show young men who drop out of high school earn less over their lifetimes and are more likely to end up in jail. …
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Because sadly the fact is males of a certain demographic will not graduate high school nor should they. The other part is their sisters shouldn't either.
I think it's just that girls are more mature and better behaved (on the whole) than boys at school age anyhow. Girls would obediently go home to diligently do their homework (in between cooking and cleaning chores) while the boys tended to dump their books at home after school and go out on adventures.
Not saying that makes boys better or girls better. It's just the way society is set up and how boys and girls are wired. Boys like to be independent and on their own and girls like to be kept safe and be part of a social structure.
My 4th grade teacher was a horrible bitch. I maintained perfect scores in math and spelling and did all of my "social studies" assignments on time. My reward was a perpetual tongue lashing, being pulled out of my desk and tossed on the floor, being sent to sit outside the classroom and off to the principal's office. I frankly hope she spends eternity in a flaming place. Thankfully, my family moved to the east coast and I finished my elementary school years away from that school.
The difference is testosterone but no one will dare mention this. It’s why boys should NOT be allowed to play on girls sports teams and is also the reason boys face different challenges learning in school. There is no innate difference in either learning ability or physical ability between girls and boys until testosterone comes into play.
It’s a denied truth that is a lot like the denied truth that boys will ALWAYS far outstrip girls in sports.
But Reeves found in his latest analysis that the gender gaps in the five largest states in the group were much larger between Black girls and boys than they were between white girls and boys or Asian girls and boys.
Of course they want to blame it on "structural racism".
This has been true for some time and previous studies confirmed the fact. The response by the public education system has been to push the boys further out by denigrating them (remember masculine toxicity?) while at the same time promoting the girls as more deserving of education.
The only way boys get any recognition or chances for scholarships, additional tutoring, etc is to pretend they have suddenly become a girl.
Girls go to college to get more knowledge.
Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.
I’m actually working on a project right now to radiation cure a polymer. Packaging is key to making it (hopefully) work.
“Draft our daughters”.
/sarcasm
Seriously though, it’s time to face the reality in this country, that the war on masculinity has had very bad consequences.
You mean people like Ben Carson or Thomas Sowell?
In too many states you don't have to 'learn a trade'. You can just buy a contractors license and go at it. Truth.
So how should boys behave in the classroom?
This is a direct result of the feminization of education. It is designed by women, administered by women, taught by women in a way that women understand. It is not normal for an 8 or 10 year old boy to sit at a desk for six straight hours.
Bring back recess, cut out the busy work, and focus on substance. Then hold kids responsible for their performance with fair testing and focusing on substance, not formalities, and boys would begin to excel. Those who didn’t, would gravitate toward vocational training.
He went back but he would show up in the "study" as not having graduated on time which they make equivalent to not having graduated at all.
As for Ben Carson his mother insisted that he and his siblings cultivate good study habits. That means they were able to overcome the public school system that was not designed to teach.
Public Schools want to keep every warm body they can in public school. It is how they justify all the money they are getting. The boys are probably not less educated than the girls because almost no one comes out of that system with an education but the girls are more willing to play the game in return for certain goodies. And those goodies are offered to girls more than boys.
It is not that complicated.
What states are those? Sounds like although there are many states that don’t have state-level contractors’ licenses, you cannot simply buy a license that states you are qualified to do work you are not qualified to do.
https://www.nextinsurance.com/blog/general-contractor-license-requirements/
So it’s the system and not demographics.
It’s no wonder so many boys are soft and effeminate these days. Earrings and nail polish. Shaving their legs. Prissy clothes. Talking in high pitched voices. If I had acted like that when I was a kid I would have gotten my ass kicked and they would have been doing me a favor.
I use UV to cure 3D resin prints, is it somewhat similar?
However lots of kids of that demographic are not being taught because the teachers assume they "can't" be taught.
When the kids are switched to schools that teach, they learn providing the damage has not already been done and they have been convinced they can NOT learn.
It is all about teaching methods. I think it was Mississippi that changed the way they taught reading and the reading proficiency took a major jump.
The system yet again. Government micromanagement is a monstrosity.
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