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DuaneFirst , the news…
From USA Today
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As boys slip behind, some feminists reject helping them
Backlash recalls fight a generation ago over attempts to help girls in schools.
With its powerhouse basketball teams, famed chemistry department and high rankings in college surveys, the University of North Carolina shouldn’t be lacking for qualified male applicants. But UNC’s current freshman class is 60% female.
There’s no mystery behind the gender imbalance. North Carolina’s female applicants take tougher courses in high school, earn better grades and score just as high on the SAT college admission tests. So the girls get more spots.
That same phenomenon is playing out across the country. Just as educators are beginning to address it, however, an unhealthy backlash appears to be developing. Some feminists, concerned that what helps boys might hurt girls, are denying that a problem exists  ironically in the same reflexive way that some men repudiated attempts to help girls a generation ago.
Evidence of the backlash turned up in Maine, where a new report that was supposed to focus on the boy problem was watered down to include problems affecting both genders. The two-year study notes that women make up 63% of Maine public college campuses, but it then goes into odd tangents about sexual harassment.
The problem crosses race and class lines.
On paper, middle class boys attend college at roughly the same rate as girls. But many private colleges grant them admissions preferences in an effort to maintain a gender balance. In suburban neighborhoods, parents routinely swap stories about their diligent daughters getting into top colleges while their unmotivated sons drop out or settle for third-tier schools.
Among blue collar boys, modest gaps in verbal skills in elementary school expand in middle school and persist into high school. The study in Maine, where white boys from blue collar families make up the bulk of the male students, places the gender gap in reading as wide as 17 percentage points.
Among African-Americans of all income backgrounds, twice as many women as men are enrolled in college. At historically black Clark Atlanta University, only 30% of the students are men. (more…)
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You thoughts on this one, please.
I tried arguing this issue a while back but was met with criticism suggesting that women in general are still treated unfairly in this country. In some cases this is true, but apparently not in the college world. In a posting that I did back in ‘05, I made the following comment:
For those that align themselves with the feminist movement, they must now decide weather or not they are shooting for equality or paybackÂÂÂ
Just as women demanded that the mostly-male power structure on college campuses years ago make room for women (and rightfully so), given this current trend, is it now time for schools to shift some of the funding that is earmarked for special programs for women on campus to develop the same type of programs for men?
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The best education is self education not systematic learn to work for others type crap
I’ve seen this in my own family, and have scratched my head about it.
Rather than put the onus on colleges, maybe someone should be looking at the middle school – high school level where this male lackluster attitude begins.
Of course, were I a young Black college-bound male, I would seriously look at Clark with its 7-3 ratio.
First of all, that last comment…what male wouldn’t? (LOL)
Second, you are right, this should be dealt with on the middle and high school level. In some ways it is, but certainly not on the level that it should be.
I think thats because the name of the game in America is just go get the money the best way you know how. A lot of us overlook this fact and delve deep into an ignorance that makes it hard on ourselves. I never went to college but it was my choice and because of that choice I’m not as successful as a 26 year old should be. I plan on furthering my education however, I’m an entrepreneur in the making and these people tend to be self made but a lot are also self made in that they have their degrees to step out on their own with. I don’t really know what made have this disdain towards furthering my education in a formal matter other than school just didn’t relate to what I was going through at home. I make no excuses however and I still feel that my self educative efforts are best for me to pull myself out of a situation that I have settled for for so long.
From Dead Prez : School is like a twelve step brainwash camp they make you think if you drop out you aint got a chance to advance in life they try to make us pull our pants up students fight the teachers and get took away in handcuffs And if that wasnt enough then they expell yall your parents on your side but to them you a failure observation and participation my greatest teachers they can beat us in the head with them books but never reach us
I think thats an example of what this generation of males thinks about the school system. It feels so unecessarily binding and i feel is the product that teaches against self education and responsibility but you can’t blame the system when you see it for what it is. But that 7-3 is eye popping ! And even wihtout school I’m in a position to make over $50,000 a year because I understand the importance of self education and school never taught me this its something I came into after I dropped out. But nothing in this society should stop us from overall succeeding no matter if its traditional methodology or through other means of self advancement. More than anything self responsibility is at a low point in our more poor communities
“I been sayin’ dis fo years, but…”
It all began years ago to compensate for what were percieved as society’s unfairness to women. It began to escalate during the early eighties; by then men were the butt of jokes. Now women t.v. heroes routinely beat up on men (as if it were possible). Boys growing up in this environment of overcompensation in favour of women, have internalized the message of the supposed inferiority; “women are smarter, just as strong as, an morally better than men”.
Meanwhile the retarded culture of the “gangsta” has become the prime point of reference for many.
If parents allow their sons to be marginalized by societal preassures, nothing can be done to help the young males…. If the young male “warrior class” of any culture is decimated, that culture will rapidly decline.
That comment by DarkStar is HILARIOUS!!! I’m a high school teacher, and am confronted with this issue daily. Several of my black male students “know a man” who has had no formal education but is “super rich” today. These students imagine that they can accomplish the same. They fail to see the importance of personal discipline. Lacking basic education and personal discipline is sure to sabotage them sooner than later. From my perspective, these young men have a deficit in their values. They idolize money and those who have it, but they themselves have no real work ethic. Therefore many of their idols are hustlers, pimps and entertainers who made their money quickly with little effort involved. This generation of young black males is receiving a steady diet of amoral gangsta rap etc. but apparently no one is taking the time to invest in them to become real men. I am frustrated about what I see, but without a concerted effort within the communities that produce these young men, I don’t know how they can be truly helped. In the mean time, many of them are wasting the free and readily available education that is being offered to them in public school. How will they even hope to get accepted into colleges and universities? Many of these young men are so far behind in their educational skills that even if they became serious about their studies today, they would be hard-pressed to compensate for all they’ve missed through previous years of apathy (theirs and others’.) In short, We Have A Major Crisis.
ITS TIME FOR THE MEN’S MOVEMENT.
WAKE UP BLACK MAN AND STOP BEING A SISSY AND A MAMA’S BOY!!!
ALL THE MEN SAY AMEN!!!