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Raising boys' achievement in schools (UK)
posted by Thomas on 11:31 PM February 22nd, 2004
Education rage writes "Here is an article from The Independent (UK) about the ongoing initiatives to helping boys catch up with girls in schools. For those interested in the topic, you can go to www.google.com and make an advanced search with the exact phrase "raising boys' achievement" and you will see that there are currently in Great-Britain lots of programs designed for young male underachievers. It seems that things are beginning to change at last.

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Too little ...too late (Score:1)
by kal147 on 01:21 AM February 23rd, 2004 EST (#1)
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The only reason the issue is even being discussed at all is because it's becoming impossible to ignore any longer the stark and glaringly obvious failings of young boys in school in their formative years. However, it goes much deeper than that.

As time goes on the chasm will only widen. Currently, girls make up about 60% of college students and receive 65% of graduate degrees. When our young boys (elementary and high school) reach college age this discrepancy will only be larger, plus they themselves as a demographic will be largely unprepared for college themselves. This is a runaway train on a collision course with catastrophe.

One has to realize that in 10-20 years when todays students (of all ages) reach what is expected to be productive adult years, the men will be horribly behind the women and unprepared for adulthood itself. Medicated and pacified with ritalin when young, materially behind their female 'peers', we are raising and have raised a lost generation of men who will not be able to cope, even less excel, in the demands and rigor of adult and professional life.

We also have to examine these young males in the social context in which they were raised, ie the feminist social construct that permeates society. Besides being behind academically, these boys have been socially marginalized, diminished, punished, and clearly psychically damaged. They will reach full adulthood with profound psychological and psychosexual trauma.

In addition, due to the divorce industry these same boys will have grown up in households without a father present, or even in their lives at all, further compounding their problems.

We've created a disaster that is already beyond repair for tens of millions of boys and young men, and ultimately for all of society itself. Even if the educational system becomes miraculously fixed overnight (it won't obviously), the resultant damage to the generations of boys and young men will absolutely and unavoidably manifest itself in the years to come when they become the next generation of men.

What kind of men will we have raised?

At least two generations of men who have irreversibly fallen behind their women acedemically and professionally, who have been profoundly psychically injured by feminism's legacy, and who have never had a solid male role model to teach them the business of maturing into and being men. We've raised, and ruined, two generations of damaged goods. Our future leaders ... hardly. Our future fathers ... please. These two generations of 'non-men' will barely resemble the notion of manhood that we aspire to, and that society requires for its' bedrock and intrinsic health.

I shudder to think what the landscape of manhood and society will look like in twenty years. I fully and truly believe that the damage is done and the carnage has yet to be seen. While changes to the educational system may help our boys who will enter school in the future, look who their fathers will be ... the two generations of ruined men that we created. We shall reap what we sow, and the damage we have done will manifest profoundly upon humanity for at least a century to come.
Re:Too little ...too late (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 04:03 AM February 23rd, 2004 EST (#2)
> They will reach full adulthood with profound psychological and psychosexual trauma.

And that's why they will be enraged Men's Rights activists once having reached adulthood.

Rage

Re:Too little ...too late (Score:1)
by Kirran on 11:07 AM February 23rd, 2004 EST (#3)
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I feel sorry for the young men twenty years from now.

- They will realize that they are not needed to raise a family, they will only be used for their earning potential (not the actual money they make the potential money they can make).
- Artificial women and technology in those regards will be better and cheaper, making more men shy away from healthy relationships with women. (Virtual girlfriend - A la sixth day)
- Men and Women will be damaged because they will not be able to see and form healthy relationships, relationships where both people have reasonable expectations on eachother. (Not just one-way expectations).
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