Boys' grade averages are below their female counteparts in secondary school.
Young men are more likely to drop out of secondary school and less likely to graduate university than young women.
Men are now outnumbered in most professional programs including law and medicine.
The average Canadian university campus is 58 per cent female.
Boys are unmotivated and have been brought up in the most recent generation to support their female counterparts.
These are some of the findings cited in a Maclean's article last week.
As educators, we have been aware of the physiological and emotional differences between male and females. Females mature physically and emotionally faster than boys and are better able to focus on assigned tasks. This article corroborates this by citing a recent brain development study. In short, the brain of a five-year-old boy is roughly equivalent to that of a 31/2-year-old girl. Hence, girls start school with a very significant academic advantage. The rest is history!
Our School Improvement Plan has specific goals and strategies that address understanding and identifying the learning styles of boys prior to instruction, implementing differentiated learning, graphic novels and esteem building activities for example.
Are boys disinterested due to how they have been raised? Are girls dominating due to physiology and a nurtured sense from their mothers who had to endure and fight decades of discrimination? Are elementary and secondary schools to blame for feminizing the curriculum to promote girls and keep boys from being discipline problems?
Here is the Maclean's article.
Thanks for reading! Looking forward to your comments. Parent/Teacher Interviews are this Thursday, October 28th from 6:30 pm to 8 pm.
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