Science Leadership Academy

    One interesting fact I researched was is it the guys or the girls that have problems in schools? While I was researching I came across an interesting site that proved to me that boys are at risk in schools as opposed to girls. In the Philadelphia Enquirer states that if you go to the home of an average white working class family you'll notice an odd pattern. The chances are that the daughters are doing well in school (whether it be college or high school) the daughters bring home better then average grades, have careers in mind, and are on realistic tracks to achieve their goals.
    As for their sons not so much, Chances are, their grades are poor, their lives disorganized and their futures uncertain.
Now some people are probably thinking wait a second you're thinking about the boy problems are supposed to be limited to African Americans. And black males are faring terribly in society. Richard Whitmire the president of the National Education Writers Association describes that their plight is so severe that it overshadows the significant problems seen among white boys from blue collar and lower income white-collar families. For the most part the problems of white boys go unnoticed. Teachers will tell the parents that their sons lack motivation, leaving the parents believing that bad parenting is at fault. Worse yet, teachers tell them not to worry, that boys will be boys and everything will turn out well in the end. Only it doesn't...