In Even More Boy Trouble! Steve Burton describes his experience trying to teach science and math in a pubic school:
Nor did it take me long to figure out why boys are falling behind girls all across the country. Because it is boys, far more than girls, who need strict discipline and who go straight to hell without it. Raising and teaching boys is a lot more like taming wild horses than it is like nurturing wounded birds — but we are locked in a feminist cultural moment that sees education as, precisely, ‘nurturance.’
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Anybody who really knows anything about boys knows that if they see one of their own constantly challenging the supposed authorities and getting away with it, he will quickly become a hero to them — the alpha male, the leader of the pack. And I saw this happen again and again. Budding thugs and clowns who, at one time, would have been quickly and permanently expelled and out looking for dead-end jobs, became instead the most popular kids in the school, lording it over the campus social scene with all the hauteur of grand duchesses — and serving as models for their peers.For the girls, gazing on admiringly, this sort of thing is only a misfortune. But for the boys, caught up in the struggle, it’s a calamity.