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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You realize 'boys' includes lower-class boys, right? Not just the educated and high-earning males who tend to hang out out on these forums?
And if you were a teacher in the last 10 years and you weren't aware of the literacy struggles of boys, then whatever system you were part of is behind the times. Boys are far less likely to read than girls*. They do worse in school at every level. They report less interest in school and less interest in grades. This is more pronounced among poor students than rich, but evident in every demographic**.
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I realize that different kinds of people exist, and live in different circumstances, but thanks for the reminder either way.
I haven't been a teacher in the last 10 years, but when I was, I was mostly teaching kids with literacy problems, and I definitely taught more boys than girls.
Whatever the reason was, they didn't end up getting remedial teaching because they thought reading/schoolwork was for girls. Not one of them ever said anything like that.
Obviously there's an issue, I'm not arguing that, but that's not it, based on my experience.