Fox News host: ‘Feminism is to blame’ when boys do poorly in school

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92. Several thoughts

First, to blame feminism or some sort of woman conspiracy for this is nonsense. Also two different, but related, statistics are being conflated here. But that said, there is a very real crisis for males, particularly males of color, in our high schools. One only has to teach a class of people repeating a class and/or high level classes to see this. The first class with be made up largely of males of color and the second will have virtually no males of color in it. I have worked in schools that were majority minority for nearly my entire teaching career and in all of them except the ones which had no whites in them, white students and particularly white females made up the substantial majority of the upper level (honors and ap) classes I taught while minority males made up a similarly large majority of the classes that were either repeaters or lower level classes. It didn't matter if the schools had white principals or black principals, or if the teaching staff in my department was overwhelmingly female or closer to parity. Given that I teach math, the subject in which females have traditionally fared the worst in terms of numbers, I can only imagine what upper level classes in other disciplines look like. Race and gender are both involved here, to be sure, but gender is playing a part and it is by no means trivial.

Add in the fact that males are way, way, way more likely to get suspended (especially black ones) and the picture gets even worse.

I can't speak nearly as much to the college stats since I don't work at a college.