In 2015 we published a piece titled The Department for Education doesn’t consider boys’ under-achievement in schools as a matter of the slightest concern, after receiving a response from the Department for Education to our Freedom of Information Act request. Bottom line, they were only too well aware that boys were failing academically, and were devoting zero resources to the issue.

The situation remains unchanged. Our thanks to Nigel for this (Mail, £). An extract:

“According to the research, white boys from disadvantaged backgrounds and workless homes have the lowest aspirations of all groups. But white working-class girls also fell in school attainment at a faster pace than their peers over the past five years.” [J4MB: I have zero doubt that the second sentence is designed to obscure the fact that white working-class girls are still doing better academically than white working-class boys.]

Nigel writes:

“And of course boys the most behind. In doing the google search to find a linkable version low and behold one item was just the same, a report to Parliament in 2014. Suggesting sweet FA has been done in the decade since. Its not even that they’ve tried to do something and its failed. As Mary Curnock-Cook points out not only had nothing been done but there is resistance to her even asking the questions https://youtu.be/1jFgTjxQmqU. This really does set out the effect of feminism in deciding that “boys and men are not worth investing in”.

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