thecooliestone I'm noticing a big push recently in my district to save the boys. There are four different mentorship programs for the boys. Every male teacher gets to do whatever they want, with no expectations, because we need men to mentor the boys. Coaches are always teacher of the year because they mentor the boys.

I pointed out that we'd had several middle school girls end up pregnant last year, and could we get some real mentorship for them too. Word for word my principal replied "Well the girls will be alright in the end. They usually are. It's the boys who really need us."

I watch teachers fawn over boys doing the bare minimum while girls are doing twice as much on the daily. Boys who are ruining education for everyone are given a single day of ISS under the table, while a girl who does anything out of line gets 3 days of documented suspension. I understand that boys are falling behind in aggregate, but it really feels like a lot of female admin have sons and just assume that girls will figure themselves out while we need to baby the boys.