<p>“It’s just the article I linked to about all the boys that are under-performing, it made me think that this is perhaps a potential venue to draw them into their high school world more.”</p>
<p>Is it a venue? Yes. Many kids go into gaming design or art or comics, or what have you. </p>
<p>But it’s not the reason why boys are underpreforming, and it won’t solve the problem. </p>
<p>And like everyone else has said, plenty of girls do this too. And I think you’ll find that there’s a slowly growing push for more girls in this field as well, since it IS so male-dominated. But while this is a great way to get kids involved in something (although maybe unorthodox) It’s not really going to cure reading skills or make boys test higher or graduate college more. </p>
<p><em>shrugs</em></p>