<p>Schools reflect the increasingly risk-averse nature of the overall society, its unwillingness to tolerate contingency. I don’t think that schools are being wrecked for boys because they’re run by women more often than not.</p>
<p>Men are complicit in the way schools are run to maximize industrial efficiency at the expense of physical free time. I remember a school board meeting where a father, dressed in Duke sweatshirt, hat and key lanyard, got up and started harrumphing about how the school should be run like a business. That attitude is not associated with women particularly.</p>