Boys will be boys--biologically, developmentally and psychologically. They’re not girls.
But don’t tell today’s educators, who systematically deemphasize physical activity, refuse to separate the sexes and encourage medications for male hyperactivity and attention-deficit disorders.
Heaven help those who suggest delaying the entry of boys into formal education or employ affirmative action in the recruitment and hiring of male teachers.
More boys than girls drop out of school and fewer boys than girls enter higher education or graduate.
Male role models increasingly are overpaid athletes and gangster rappers, not academics, emergency responders and statesmen.
Most education debate centers on evolution, school prayer, saluting the flag and saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
Nobody cares that Johnny can’t read, write or sit still because today’s schools don’t meet his biological, developmental or psychological needs. (25 JUNE 2006)
