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If you have kids in the public schools now, the first thing you note is all the things they don't have, that they had when you were a kid. And why don't they have all the things you had in school as a kid??? Lack of funding, so instead of addressing this, people try to destroy the public schools even more, at this rate - religiously run private schools will be the majority option for folks --- now that is my personal pet peeve , but how does this attach on public schools look like a war on boys.
Learning styles, modern public schools often don't have PE , don't have band, don't have sports or any activates due to lack of funding, but also
due to teaching to the test --- ie teacher pay is based on test scores of their kids, doesn't matter if junior is being abused, didn't eat breakfast, never does homework, it is the teachers fault and if she wants to get paid those test scores better be good, and of course the teacher student ratio is probably double what you remember when you were a kid.
So what does this new environment of no sports/ no PE , shorter recesses,
and tons more homework and studying then you ever did - do to boys??? There is your answer. Can the teachers change this- no , can the schools change this - no - because they are mandated by tons of stupid laws that you the voter have passed over the years to improve the schools - you wanted higher test scores, you got them, you wanted them to have higher test scores, while spending less money on the schools, you got it.... apparently the change in the environment doesn't bother girls so much, but it seems to impact the boys. This is self inflicted by the right wing school reforms, of testing and school vouchers and less money for schools. Which is funny, since as a group with a strong world view of how men should be in society, they are the ones making it hard for the next generation of men to live up to their image of them.
