Classroom Gloom: "Boys Are Treated Like Defective Girls"
Christina Hoff Sommers writes at Time magazine:
Being a boy can be a serious liability in today’s classroom. As a group, boys are noisy, rowdy and hard to manage. Many are messy, disorganized and won’t sit still. Young male rambunctiousness, according to a recent study, leads teachers to underestimate their intellectual and academic abilities.
“Girl behavior is the gold standard in schools," says psychologist Michael Thompson. “Boys are treated like defective girls.”
"These 'defective girls' are not faring well academically," Sommers continues. "Compared with girls, boys earn lower grades, win fewer honors and are less likely to go to college. One education expert has quipped that if current trends continue, the last male will graduate from college in 2068. In today’s knowledge-based economy, success in the classroom has never been more crucial to a young person’s life prospects. Women are adapting; men are not."
Christina Hoff Sommers is author of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men.
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