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Boys make up 67 percent of special education students. 80 percent of whom are black or hispanic. I find that a huge problem since special education kids are much less likely to meet any of the benchmarks of success.</p>
<p>Does anyone really think that boys are just that much more likely to have a disability of some sort than girls are?</p>
<p>While the current generation of men holds more positions of power, that will not be the case going forward. The percentage of college graduates, law school graduates, medical graduates, etc. are much lower for the upcoming generation.</p>
<p>I really don’t get why it would even be controversial to want to have policies and procedures in place to get as many kids as possible to graduate and become productive members of society. THe number of boys who don’t graduate is much too larg to be anything but a societal issue. We have addressed how to help girls and have had great improvements in their outcomes. Which is ideal. But why marginalize boys? Who could possibly benefit from that? We are moving in the right direction for girls and the wrong direction for boys. Would all of you be so confused if girls were doing so much less well and being warehoused in special education? I don’t think so. Don’t look at our generation, look younger and younger still.</p>