Need a little therapy this morning. I have a boy and a girl currently in high school and am increasingly convinced that my son and most of the other boys are learning almost nothing at all. There's not reading books like To Kill a Mockingbird or Tale of Two Cities, they aren't learning to write a persuasive essay, their passing their Spanish classes but not learning any Spanish, and math class, a topic in which boys of my generation allegedly excelled, has been transformed beyond recognition. Math used to be about getting the right answer. Now it seems to be about, I don't know what. But whatever it is, the boys aren't getting it. Now they are frustrated and demotivated. It's breaking my heart.
Thanks