PLN 28

What matters in the world today is the article, “Our boys are falling behind in education” by Dottie Lamm. This article states that boys are falling behind girls academically because of verbal differences. It explained how girl’s brains are able to become verbally faster by 3½ years; where as the average boy takes 5 years. Yet, a school in Aurora separated kindergarteners into gender classes and the boys were just as successful as the girls. My feeling about this is that the verbal difference is not the problem but instead things like attention span. Being in two all boys classes myself, I find that there is no difference in my performance whether there are girls in the room or not. The article goes on to say that the world will have a switch in society and the women will be in more powerful poisons’. However I don’t feel this is true, because boys eventually reach the same level as girls and are currently still producing stronger results in math and science. Girls will some day rise to a perfectly equal level as boys in the executive world, but they will not move a head because of education difficulties. I personally think that the only difference between boys and girls is their ability to concentrate on learning. Thus I think that lessons should be made more interactive so that boys will stay attentive. Obviously, the struggle that guys are said to have can be fixed and just because guys may struggle in school that doesn’t mean that they will fail in the real world.