I teach in a low-income, primarily black neighborhood in the Deep South. I find that the boys will pay a lot more attention to me, but then they take it a lot harder when I punish them. However, I really don't think the girls do worse. I do think though, that many of these single-mother boys need a man in their life to teach them what it is to be a man.
They REALLY do!
" I do think though, that many of these single-mother boys need a man in their life to teach them what it is to be a man.
They REALLY do!"
Your observations are entirely correct. I forget whether I read the statistics in Sowell's book ("Black rednecks & white liberals") or the Thernstroms' book ("America in Black and White"). Or somewhere else...
But you are right on the money!