I agree with you Peter and note, you are in a far better position to know the inside story than many onlookers.

I think boys do need positive male role models and more of them in gender-divided schools. The other thing is the powerful voices of the derogatory feminists in our schools, their scorn reserved almost exclusively for boys and male dominated sports?

I believe boys achieved more in such gender-specific schools. Finally, there is the fundamentally flawed funding model which still supports the most privileged, who among them are those who are tax avoiding leaners?

Yet, think because they may pay significantly more tax than the average single mum, they should enjoy a far-far superior in every way, education model. Much of it paid with the public purse?

The result, often our very best and brightest confined to inferior underfunded education models, meaning, the next generation of Einsteins could see their career choices limited to garbage truck duties and the like.

A huge waste of talent that sees us falling further and further behind the emerging Asian countries, to our ultimate peril both economically and in the growing security stakes. My solution is to make all schools self-funded via a fee system. then grant a means-tested sliding-scale education endowment to the least and lesser well off.

And not as cash but rather, a benefit the parent directs and between competing for their business, models! Then with the funding solved and increased by as much as 30%? By the simplicity of avoiding fee charging state governments, increased and levelled where it creates the best results! At the coal face!
Alan B.

We are constantly told that the the 'future is female'. For years in other cultures men have sat back and let the women do everything. Given the attitudes to men these days, there is no reason why Western culture can't or won't be the same.

The education system is now dominated by feminists. They are not interested in educating our kids, but uplifting women.

They have totally destroyed the math/science syllabus to make it easier for girls to handle what is for them a tough subject.

About 15 years ago now, my son brought home a photocopy of a year 12 math B exam paper. It was a copy he had managed to take before having to hand back the paper after the exam. It transpired that they had been using the same paper for 4 years, to avoid the task of writing new exams each year. Lazy buggers.

He was very indignant that the first question was one requiring the kids to describe a number. He hated essay writing, & considered it had no place in an exam to see if the kids could handle numbers & formulae. This introduction of essay writing into a math exam is only to help girls avoid number work as much as possible.

I only recently realised that my kids had no electricity in their physics. I guess electricity theory is a bit too close to math for the girls. We had a whole segment back in the 50s. So the average citizen today must believe electricity is magic, rather than the simple system it is, having no knowledge from school.

Just more dumbing down of the population to make us more easily controlled.

IS it ONLY the fault of the feminists?

What are all the others doing: parents? Teacher unions? All the academics and experts?

Worth checking it out I reckon.....

There's a loophole in the system where young dysfunctional boys are being given a free pass by socialist aligned governments.

If you want to be 13 and run around the streets with a machete, the police just ignore it, that's whats happening.

I know, it happened to some friends I know just this week.
DOCS ignored the issues until the kid was too far gone.
Then they blamed the parents, who for years have been ignored trying to get help.

Kid is placed in special needs school, full of other criminal special needs kids.
Kid absconds to smoke ice with other kids.
Kid attacks mother and sister placing them at constant risk of harm.
Kid is placed in temporary care, but won't stay so is instead running the streets.
Kid turns up with machete asks adult to mind it.
Adult calls police and hands it in.
Kids threatens adult and asks police for machete back.

Police say "you can have it, if you come down here and get it."

Mother can't do anything except sign him over to DOCS.
They leave him on the streets and refuse to help, even when he's supposed to be in their care.
Caught on the streets, police just let him go.

I'll tell you another thing too, all these schools are cashing in on kids with ADD etc, but they do absolutely nothing to help them.
They use the money to build the school, and when ADD kids play-up they just expel them to another school.

If you want my opinion the system itself created this mess.
- And probably on purpose by leftists that deliberately want the nation to fail so they can pursue socialist aims.

Its all about the social revolution.