Recently, Michelle Obama urged Girls to focus on their education, not dating: "Compete With the Boys!" she told an audience at Glamour's The Power of an Educated Girl panel in New York. What Michelle doesn't understand or worse does understand but fails to express is that it is boys who are seriously failing in school. Girls have been doing well thank you. Girls make up the ones with the highest test scores, girls are the ones who graduate with more honors, girls are more likely to finish school and go to college. Out of every 100 students who go to college only 37 of them will be boys.
But Ms. Obama was directing her comments at minority girls, right? Well what about minority boys? They are in fact the bottom of the food chain. Not only are the numbers for minority boys that far worse then any demographic but they are more likely to get involved in drugs, gangs and go to prison - many of them are killed in street gang violence. An education for these boys would greatly increase their chances for a better life. In turn the whole of society would improve - and yes even the lives of women and girls.
So I'm sorry but if you think we need to tell girls to do better - at least the girls here in the US and Canada - well that just isn't right.
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