Struggling School-Age Boys

This is all so true. I was shocked and dismayed when, about 12 years ago, I was aiding in a kindergarten class that operated this way. It's intuitively wrong. Why does it take an official study after years of damage to make it clear? And at what level of bureaucracy can the pendulum be pushed the other way?

This is entirely the result of feminizing America, which is why nobody talks about it. The continued focus on the myth of the 'oppressed woman' causes more and more attention and funds to be diverted from males. The continuous downplaying of the importance of the male, and the necessity of strong male role models, and all other victims of post-third-wave feminism ... these are the issues we must address.

I totally agree that our schools have reduced themselves to teaching the test. They are so worried about their funding that "no child left behind" is now "every child better pass the test". As for nostalgia, when is wanting your child to get a little fresh air and exercise in the middle of the school day a bad thing?

Woody65
What about the parents. Driven by the myth that taking adderall will improve kids grade we are taking them to the psychiatrist at the first sign of impulsiveness and decreasing grades

I agree 100%! I have found that it's a rare thing to have your children enrolled in only 1 extracurruicular activity at a time (as recommended by my pediatrician) in our school system/neighborood. It seems to me I see fewer & fewer kids outside playing & just being a kid. What as happened to our society? There is certainly nothing wrong with encouraging children to strive to be te best they can be... but at what cost ? I think with adults already pushing themselves to the limit & are stressed out to the max why force children
into te stressful responsibiliies of adulthood before they have even had te opportunity to just be a kid. Have we all forgot how it can be hard to just be a kid trying to not only figure yourself out but this crazy world we live in too? I don't think for the most part that previous generations turned out too bad & we actually spent our summers playing outside with our friends or watcing TV after school giving our brain some down time. We all eventually grew up into responsible adults contributing to society. Many doing a pretty darn good job at too. I think many teachers in most schools would agree that we are expectingtoo much from our kids too soon & not giving them the down time they need both at home or school. Unfortunately they have those above them to answer to & in order for most schools to get state funding they have to educate our kids the way the government (both state & federal) want them to.