Have Today's Schools Failed Male Students? By Patricia Dalton Summary

In “Have Today’s Schools failed Male Students?” author Patricia Dalton debate about the subject whether today’s school have failed male students. Standing on a point of psychologist, she has experience of being a mother of two daughters and a son, she was able to give out a lot of evidence about how people neglect the needs of boys. She has shown that for so many years, people tend to distinguish the way to treat boys and girls. People treat boys and girls differently and tend to pay more attention to girls than boys. Therefore, some boys often feel mislead and unimportant. It builds up inferiority and complexity in them. In some serious cases, they are the reasons to lead boys to suicide or violent acts. Children spend most of their times in school, the problem also starts from there.
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First, Dalton states that we are failing our boys because we’ve overlooked the needs of ordinary boys and that has led to many terrible things. She uses her own experience and her knowledge to support her argument. She states that: “More recently, as we begun to acknowledge gender differences, we’ve focused our attention on girls.”(1) To support her idea, she gives us some examples about recent popular studies that addressed exclusively the needs of girls. It clearly shows that people nowadays tend to focus more on girls than boys. They specifically draw attention to the needs of girls while forgetting the needs of boys. Then she mentions the statistics that suggest that boys maybe the more fragile sex than girls. They say: “Boys are much more likely than girls to have drug and alcohol problems. Four of every five juvenile-court cases involve crimes committed by boys. Ninety-five percent of juvenile homicides are committed by boys. And while girls attempt suicide four times more often, boys are seven times as likely to succeed as girls - usually because they choose more