anyone who’se looked at a math textbook can tell you why boys are now failing.
third grade - son who likes math but not reading starts to fail math. the book is full of multicultural connections - examples using stories about cultures around the world to do the problem. After a few minutes of son staring at the book, I told him to read it to me....he was stumped on the name of the village the people lived in.
In order to make math more ‘girl friendly’, they made everything a word problem. Look at ‘old’ school textbooks and there are pages and pages of arithmetic examples. New textbooks - story after story.
By the time the educators can no longer destroy upper math, its too late - the boys are so far behind they are in ‘special ed’ and funneled into vo-tec.
Most of the workforce now are white-collar workers, most of whom have some of the most tedious and idiotic jobs ever concocted. Entire industries, insurance and banking and real estate for instance, consist of nothing but useless paper-shuffling. The “tertiary sector,” the service sector, is growing while the “secondary sector” (industry) stagnates and the “primary sector” (agriculture) nearly disappears. I think young men recognize this and lose hope of ever being able find satisfying, meaningful careers. Then they see the institutions of marriage and family being slowly destroyed and lose incentive to work hard to provide, not trusting in the veracity of these institutions any more. Really, it it any big mystery as to why men have thrown up their hands?