"Ahhh.... MEN." (Bette Davis, All About Eve) And BOYS.

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19. Step one: do exactly as the link suggests, create a White House Council on Boys and Men.

Part two: single gender classrooms.

Boys are more likely to cooperate instead of competing with one another for the attention of the girls in the room.

It has been proven to improve education, and strongly correlated with improved emotional health.

In aggregate, men and boys are different than girls and women. Efforts to prove that they are not have done significant harm.

In the past, our dads learned from their dads what to do in the fields, or what to do as an apprentice. It was our dads’ job to do, not to feel. The messages to our dads from their dad, mom, church and community were both clear and unified. And for dads who could fit in, that enhanced emotional stability. Today, with so many boys raised in non-intact families, there is neither clarity nor unity; neither dad nor mentor. And that can create emotional insecurity.

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