Reply #109: It's hard to quantify when no one cares.

[lumberjack_jeff]

Where is the "AAUM"?
Where is the men's education equity program?
The prevailing educational stereotype is that education shortchanges girls, when the reverse is demonstrably true.
http://www.uaf.edu/northern/schools/myth.html That stereotype affects educational policy and behavior throughout the system.

As a father of three sons, I have lots of anecdotal experience. The female principal who suspended my second-grader for "pre-gang activity". 8 years later, the police were called by a pearl-clutching school counselor because he was passing a note to another student about toy guns. 10 years later, the same principal was going to write up my youngest for "fondling another student". It turns out he was attempting to grab a playground ball away from his friend who was sitting on it.

My student experience didn't prepare me for a parent experience, because schools have fundamentally changed. What once was normal play is now considered dangerous pathology.

The main fundamental failing of schools is the indoctrination of the idea that normal male childhood behavior is a sickness by an educational system run by people with no experience being boys. Who the hell wants to be a part of that?

http://www.amazon.com/Minds-Boys-Saving-Falling-Behind/dp/0787977616