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The feminization of education continues apace. Normal boy behavior is now a pathology.

• washadjeffmad 2y ago
  I was a +1 at an ESOL conference recently where this point was heavily featured by both elementary and high school faculty. There are warning signs, students who are regressing, who are being failed (often by being passed) by their teachers and schools who don't have the processes or resources to identify and divert them. They're primarily male, and until they're out of that school system, they don't often have a chance to discover who they are in a context free from conflict, stress, and failure. I wouldn't call it feminization because it comes down to the support the superintendents have from above and below for testing and support, but it's certainly a combination of lies in aggregate, leftovers from zero tolerance and NCLB, and expansions of duties without sufficient resources. The teachers know and feel it, but they can't help everyone when the schools are being run in a way that prioritizes the highest volume of students completing their "sentence" over caring about individual competency and development.
• Slyfox33 2y ago
  Did you even read the article? "The increase in diagnoses also comes amid growing awareness of ADHD — and the different ways that it can manifest in children. Danielson says that may help explain why girls are becoming more commonly diagnosed with ADHD compared to boys than they had been in the past. She says boys have long been diagnosed with ADHD at around two and half times the rate of girls, but the new reports finds that difference is narrowing."
  • fragmede 2y ago
    > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html