Suzanne Hoff-Sommers wrote a great book “The War Against Boys” outlining many of the purposeful discriminatory changes made in education that have caused boys/men to fall behind. She focused largely on the Women’s Educational Equity Act, but there have been other discriminatory actions since she wrote her book.

In short, I advocate we undo the discrimination against males that has caused males to fall behind. For most of history, males weren’t behind in education. They only fell behind when we started discriminating against them.

Some more specific points:

1. Schools made a conscious effort to have predominantly female teachers. We should undo this and work towards a better balance. It’s been shown teachers tend to discriminate in favor of their sex, female teachers especially so.

2. Boys and girls learn differently. For example boys tend to be more experimental and need more activity in the day, whereas girls are more linguistic. We made a conscious move towards the latter which should be undone. Schools should return to more experiential learning, smaller classes, break up the day with activity and not punish students (boys especially ) for fidgeting. Heck, I can’t sit attentively for hours in end, it’s ridiculous we expect boys to.

3. As Reeves often points out, boys and girls are ready for different learning at different ages and education has (purposely) focused on teaching materials at a time when girls best learn. Reeves suggest we hold boys back to compensate. I disagree. I think schools should compromise the best they can rather than focus on girls.

4. Some schools offer no boys allowed college prep programming. I believe this discriminatory opportunity is a title ix violation and should be entirely banned. Again, we should end discrimination against males.

5. There are many women only scholarships, but few men only scholarships. This is biased and is fortunately one thing we are seeing addressed, though there’s still a bias that needs to be eliminated.

6. Studies show colleges favor women over men in STEM hiring. This bias should stop. Similarly I’m aware if colleges that are clearing men of influential positions and replacing them with feminist women. This is especially problematic as most title ix officers, diversity and inclusion officers, etc. are women, often agenda driven feminist women.

7. Colleges adjudicate claims of sexual harassment and sexual assault in ways that deny accused men due process. This needs to stop. I advocate criminal accusations be handled by police, not colleges, but if colleges are to handle such cases, due process procedures should apply.

8. Colleges have many pro-female, anti-male programs for which there is no equivalent the other way. Women’s studies programs and “sexual assault trainings” being some examples. Like the previous point, I think these biased programs should be eliminated, but if they continue, they should be balanced.

I could go on, but I’ll leave it there for now. I think we addressed just those things, we would greatly reduce the discrimination against males in education and would see a strong return towards males doing as well as females.

Again, it’s all about removing the discrimination.