AOL Canada: The Trouble With Boys

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2008-10-23 02:46

Article here. Excerpt:

'Mack's reading a book called The Trouble with Boys, and I'm only about halfway through (I'm busy writing a book of my own: I forgot how much freaking work these things are), so I'll give you a full report when I'm done.

The thesis of the book, though, is summarized on page 23: "Let's take a look at how boys are doing. What we find is that, on the whole, in crumbling public schools in poor neighbourhoods, in elite schools that serve the very rich, and in many middle-class suburban schools, boys are doing less well than girls." Some high-performing boys do better than girls, but the trend is across the board, and wherever you look many more boys are in "special education" classes than girls.

Now the author, Peg Tyre, a former Newsweek writer and the recipient of, among other awards and prizes, a Pulitzer, is speaking specifically about how boys are performing in school, why it is and what we can do about it.'

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That sort of thing will happen when a group of well connected players (feminists) declare war on boys.

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Submitted by canaryguy on Thu, 2008-10-23 12:40

Is they are not big enough to defend themselves when the other gender declares war on them. As soon as men learn to defend themselves against someone attempting to cause them harm emotionally, physically and economically; this will all end.

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Submitted by Timothy on Thu, 2008-10-23 16:56