Why Are Boys Falling Behind in School?
works (or doesn’t work.). After watching an old monster movie, he wanted to know if it was possible to cut off a cat’s head and put it on a human-and vice versa. My daughter warned everybody in the house to sleep with one eye open until he moved on to a new interest. Fortunately, he started working on perfecting a long-distance catapult. He started kindergarten this fall, and after reading about his chances of finishing thirteen years of education (much less going on) without losing all interest in learning, I began to worry. Boys will be boys, but apparently being a boy is not a good thing in our educational system. Boys are falling behind in school all across the board. They don’t seem to handle written tests as well as girls, and the number of boys declaring a solid dislike of schooling has risen almost one hundred percent in the last three decades. According to the statistics, that isn’t simply “the thing to say”. They really hate school. Twice as many boys as girls are diagnosed a
