[jfengel]

Unfortunately, we need to fix both problems -- many boys don't do great with traditional instruction, and the problem of the many kinds of job and pay disparity. It's not really great to disadvantage them in school and then flip the disadvantage after graduation.

I agree that it's worse to fix the one disadvantage without the other, which is tempting because it seems like the less-intractable one. Wage and job disparity is deeply ingrained; "women's work" has long been poorly compensated because women are seen as wanting to do that work. We lump a huge amount of effort under "homemaker" and don't pay for it at all. We then heap even more effort on women working outside the home, for which we don't even have a single name -- cleaning, note-taking, emotional labor, etc. -- unpaid and often marking one as less valuable.

I don't have a good answer to this, and resist fixing the "easier" problem that puts girls at a disadvantage.

[LocalH]

It’s as if we made a mistake when we gave government control over education. It devolves into a lowest common denominator “one size fits all” approach that disadvantages heaps of people and prevents them from reaching their full potential