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History of Feminism

YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts) Tue Dec 31, 2013, 12:36 PM Dec 2013

My uncle's views on girls outperforming boys in school: A public high school teacher's perspective [View all]

My uncle is a public high school teacher in Colorado, and he (among many others) has noted that the trend is this: young women are outperforming young men not just in college, but also at the high school level and even earlier.

When I asked him a few years ago why he thought that was, he just said, to the best of my recollection, "in general, the guys aren't taking education as seriously anymore. You aren't entitled to a good education simply by virtue of being a (white, middle-class) male. You have to work for it."

Food for thought.

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My uncle's views on girls outperforming boys in school: A public high school teacher's perspective [View all] YoungDemCA Dec 2013 OP

I assume that to be co-educational schools/colleges. dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #1

exactly. i agree. i have been preaching this. and this is why i am so bothered when talking about seabeyond Dec 2013 #2

I raised a son too,Sea sufrommich Dec 2013 #3

exactly. i saw the classes boys put effort in and struggled. was a ... pass the class. seabeyond Dec 2013 #4

Exactly,I guess what I was trying to say, sufrommich Dec 2013 #5

exactly....lol. seabeyond Dec 2013 #6

Great post. YoungDemCA Dec 2013 #7

I wonder if the old male stereotypes don't play into this in some way... Flatulo Dec 2013 #8

IIRC, most studies over the past 60 years show that girls have always outperformed boys Nay Dec 2013 #9

i think this is another of the very real equations in all this. absolutely. nt seabeyond Dec 2013 #10

I think there's another dynamic going on as well ismnotwasm Dec 2013 #11

Do you know if the percentage of boys/men attending college have dropped boston bean Jan 2014 #12

I believe it has dropped a bit. nt Nay Jan 2014 #14

Due to longstanding American anti-intellectualism, guys have never taken education seriously eridani Jan 2014 #13

"Anti-intellectualism" was exactly how I was going to put it. And that will doom us all if we let it nomorenomore08 Jan 2014 #16

I'm very glad you posted this in this group. Sheldon Cooper Jan 2014 #15

Also that girls do better in school, therefore men are oppressed now. nomorenomore08 Jan 2014 #17