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Boys comprise the largest segment of the drop-outs. Ask yourself why then you will see that the way we teach boys needs to change. We don't lose in middle and high school. We lose them in the 5th grade or earlier. Most elementary teachers are female. Kindergarten skills are now more verbal than ever before. Boys are not as developed verbally as girls. So guess what? They become "behavior" problems because the female teachers want the boys to act like the girls. For goodness sake they are boys but now the common "sex change" is to drug them with Ritalin so they become more compliant, more like girls. If they don't get drugged then they go to the office because the female teachers do not know how to teach boys.
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If anybody has some data/studies on this, I think it would really help propel this conversation somewhere. When you wrote that boys drop out more, my first thought was video games, not female teachers.
However, I do think video games could be modified for educational and constructive purposes, which may make school more interesting for any kind of kid.