There’s something lopsided about education for boys. The system appears to favor girls heavily. There’s projections that college student populations will have shrinking male population. I think this is a systemic issue with school being built to favor a certain philosophy that isn’t well thought out for 50% of the population.

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fasterik an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It's not that the system favors a particular gender. The system favors personality traits like self-regulation, organization, and conscientiousness. These traits develop earlier on average in girls than in boys.

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rootusrootus an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> projections that college student populations will have shrinking male population

Projections? Aren’t we already there in reality? That future is today.

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XorNot an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What philosophy? The gender based outcomes people never seem able to come up with any coherent explanation of what they think the problem is other then to play to stereotypes.

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rootusrootus an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The explanation that I’ve seen floated is behavioral. Boys are active and physical and don’t focus as easily as girls, who are more amenable to sitting quietly and paying attention. The idea is that the current predominant K12 style favors students in the latter behavior group.

I have two kids in K12 and I don’t think it’s that simple. Not that I have a good explanation of my own, mind you.

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jplusequalt an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

>who are more amenable to sitting quietly and paying attention

Is this explanation not making a blatant assumption here that girls are statistically less hyperactive and distracted than boys?

	▲	rootusrootus 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Is that controversial (assuming otherwise normal children, excluding anybody with ADHD, etc)?

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Avicebron an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> What philosophy?

They might be referring to the TED Radio Hour "Beyond the manosphere" by Richard Reeves. I think it was on NPR a while ago, I looked it up because the "school isn't designed for boys but girls" sounded familiar.

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bilbo0s an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This.

A math test is a math test is a math test.

What's the math teacher supposed to do?

I hate to be that guy, but I think it should be pointed out that asian boys don't seem to have much of a problem. If there's a gender bias, why do they succeed?