Boys Are In Trouble

Accuracy in Academia's campusreportonline.net ^ | June 4, 2007 | Wendy Cook

[CholeraJoe]

One reason for the observed decline in boys’ performance is government-mandated drugging of boys with Ritalin, Adderall and antidepressants.

[wastedyears]

I guess you’re psyched about Die Hard 4, Joe.

[rhombus]

Scientists have discovered small differences in the way men and women’s brains operate.

Tell it to the brilliant ones at Harvard.

[bolobaby]

But men win in wages. So let’s just call it even. :-D

[ßuddaßudd]

Boy bump!

[CholeraJoe]

Yippee kay ay.

[wastedyears]

Indeed =D

[sgtbono2002]

Hate to say it but being a white American male in todays society is getting tougher all the time.

[dakine]

“...boys trail girls in most indicators of academic excellence...”

Really messes up their ‘pay’ inequality b.s.....

[Tzimisce]

yeah.

[epluribus_2]

May as well just say being a boy is by itself a Learning Disability and behaving like one is a Mental Disorder treatable with drugs.

[DarkSavant]

Schools don't talk in a language guys understand. It's all about social bonding, awards that signify nothing, and bookwork that encourages conformity and rote memorization as opposed to real problem solving and things requiring the use of extensive thought. Doesn't help that the subjects guys usually excel in more than girls(math, physics, etc.) are dumbed down incredibly.

Goes without saying more chaos at home with fewer fathers around to kick the kids around a little(metaphorically speaking) when they're slacking isn't helping either.

[50sDad]

Boys have been gelded. That's the problem. The social engineers have taken away dodgeball, for God's sake. Boys have been told that aggression is bad, and that they are evil for feeling that way. The natural-born testosterone that drives them, that has made boys men and the protectors of the weak for a thousand generations has been snickered at by the Feminazis' and Liberal teachers too often, and you get a generation of boys who aren't equipped to become men. The aggression that would be used competing on the playground goes inward, and either shows up in computer games (where the Liberal elite again clicks its tongue) or bubbles out in Columbine and thinks like that.

You want to see boys excel? Tell them it is OK to be boys.

[Red_Devil 232]

They repress every trait a boy has ... no desire to throw a rock just to see if it will hit anything ... no desire to stomp in a puddle of rain water to see how far the splash will go ... no desire to jamb a stick in an ant bed to watch the critters run ...

This is how we learn ... if the first rock does not break the window ... we find another and throw it harder ... Physics!

[RightWhale]

Soom wimmen will reproduce asexually like sharks and all people will will be clones.

[rjp2005]

“Scientists have discovered small differences in the way men and women’s brains operate”

Scientists discover sky is blue. World is round. Oceans have water. Plants need water.

[freespirited]

“...boys trail girls in most indicators of academic excellence...”

And when they dont trail the girls, political correctness limits their ability to receive scholarships or other forms of recognition unless they fall into a designated victim group.

[rjp2005]

Sit down with a bunch of 5-7 year old boys and girls. The girls will start asking you all sorts of personal questions, and the boys will throw a ball at you.

[vladimir998]

For years I have been saying that boys are falling behind girls.

A few weeks ago I was jumped on here for saying exactly that.

The simple fact is that it is OBVIOUS that boys and young men are falling behind in schools.