"Boys’ share of college admissions has dropped to 42 percent and is declining steadily. Boys also are responsible for 80 percent of school discipline problems. They are almost twice as likely as girls to be suspended from school, while four out of five high school dropouts are male."
Instapundit provides the link to this new report on the "boy crisis," which has not been especially noticed here at Rancho Rolly Polly, Mr. Boy only being six. But he does have a curious anxiety, "I’m worried I will ‘get fired’ from first grade because I can’t read or write." Not to worry Mom told him, first grade is where you learn to read and write.
Maybe this is normal. His kindergarten certainly was beyond my (1949) experience. All I remember is rhythm band. Mr. B. had to keep a journal for his letters and printing, and Show and Tell was more like Public Speaking 101. Anxiety begins early these days.
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