Support for Boys

07/23/2020

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

In his popular book Oh Boy!, author Francis Wardle writes:

"I think a radical change is needed in order to fully meet the needs of young boys. A place to start is recognizing that typical boy behaviors like lack of attention, risk taking, poor emotional regulation, full body movement, and messy exploration of the physical world, are the norm, and not the exception.”

And in an article in US News and World Report, author Lauren Camera addressed the same issue: “The way schools respond to boys’ behaviors plays a significant role in shaping their educational outcomes years later. In fact, behavioral problems in early childhood have a larger negative effect on high school and college completion rates for boys than girls, according to a study from Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. They’re also less likely to learn and more likely to be held back in school.

‘It suggests that something is going on in the school context that makes boys bear the brunt of school sanctioning,’ says Jayanti Owens, assistant professor of sociology and public affairs at Brown and author of the report, published by the American Sociological Association and the Sociology of Education.”

Source: “Boys Bear the Brunt of School Discipline,” by Lauren Camera, US News and World Report. June 22, 2016

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