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I don't want to get an another rant about the public schools but here it goes. Many public schools only pay attention to males if they are student athletes (reading is irrelevant), the rest have to fend for themselves. The public schools are to blame for the media's perception of the average male (wimp, dumb, doofus, lazy). You don't believe me watch any TV commercial. The women are all intelligent and the men are all dummies. I blame the public schools 100 percent and their priorities.

Eleven 4.0 last semester in my daughter’s class and only one boy, and that boy is borderline autistic (very smart, talented musician but unable to function very well socially).

Actually the girl athletes are lionized as well. You are seen as weird if you don’t participate in sports (my daughters, alas, are blessed with my genetics and have absolutely no hope in competitive sports).

I don’t know how many “bookish” boys are in my daughter’s class. She is not aware of any. At that age I was reading everything (to the detriment of my school work). My oldest has a better balance, but my youngest is just like me.

At two of our state universities they have Women in Science and Medicine conferences, and I am taking both my daughters to them, but I think they are no longer necessary (it should be open to both boys and girls). With the medical school classes being 50% women why continue the proactive steps?

They’ve kicked out a lot of good male teachers. When I was in school there were a lot of male teachers still, great role models for my science and math and journalism classes. Even our orchestra leader was a good guy.

But less and less good men teaching in the classroom has a huge impact on young boys and men.