Talking Points #7

Gender And Education:

1. A recent study found that boys (ages 11-17) are three times more likely to drop out of public school than girls of the same age range are. While this "trend" has been growing in extreme amounts over the last 20 years, boys of all backgrounds seem to be caring less and less about their education. More and more focus is being put on equality in classrooms. Many theories say that this is because women/girls are being told by their parents and peers that they should always be as smart (if not smarter than) the average boy.Others, however, argue that the lack of positive male role models in the modern day is widening a gap at which negative, "education-less" role models have arisen. "Rappers, 'Celebutants', party animals, and nifty school dropouts" are what some say are the present day role models. For one, Obama seemed to be the first of a few recent reformations involving the re-involvement of positive male role models.


Here, we see a prime example of this: