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“his means that in the not too distant future, men will be treated the way women used to in the work place as second class citizens with lower paid and harder jobs”
I do not think that this will happen, at least not in this country because the Supreme Court has ruled against the practice of reverse discrimination. If a man were to be denied a job merely because he is not a woman, he can challenge it and has precedents to rely upon to support his case.
I will agree that in the effort to allow girls to succeed in school, boys have lost out in a sense. The classroom is set up to better allow girls to learn, like using novels that appeal more to girls than boys or and the removal of recess from many schools’ schedules. This is not a conspiracy to make boys fail, instead it is an unintended consequence of trying to level the playing field. It is for this reason that I, and many others, believe that education should only be in same-sex environments. Boys and girls learn differently and it is very difficult to cater to the needs of both in a single classroom.
I think that there is more to the rate of girls vs. boys entering college than simply than actual abuse of boys in the public school. I find it hard to believe that anyone who pursues a career in education wishes for about half of their students to fail. There are other larger societal factors at play that hurt boys chances at graduating high school and continuing on to college. Some of these factors do not tend to apply to the jewish community, but it did not seem like you were talking exclusively about jews. Major factors, especially in poorer areas where fewer boys tend to make it into college than girls, include a greater likelihood of boys getting involved in a gang or because a boy is able to contribute more to a family’s income by getting a job (because they will be able to bring in more money than a girl in the same family could).