@Waverley, Sunday, 23 December 2018 8:51:45 AM

Yep, Waverley, you're correct! Spot on the money.

That proves my point. You know what's wrong, I know what's wrong, most of the posters above know some of what's wrong, so how come this clown West keeps asking the same idiotic question year after year?

As Waverley expressed in her post (I assume female, sincere apologies if I'm wrong) exactly the status quo of the intentional sabotage of boys' education. Waverley, instead of West, should have written this article to express the parlous state of affairs. Waverley knows. Waverley simply stated the facts succinctly.

Why is Dr West not stating the facts as Waverley can? Two possible extremes; he's an idiot; or he's a fraud. It's possible that maybe he's somewhere in between.

Or is it because he likes to drum up business for himself ? -

Boys' Education, Services
https://www.boyseducation.com.au/copy-of-about

After all, if people knew what caused the boys' education problem, then they'd have a good chance of solving it for themselves. It's not complicated. Sometimes, professionals in this sort of consultancy service, never want the problem solved because then they'd be out of work. They'd have to find another problem - or create one - to take it's place.

And as so far as Dr West being "an expert on men's and boys' issues" is concerned, in my opinion, you could write what he knows about men and boys on the head of a pin. He probably knows a lot about how to persuade and manoeuvre people into his PC feminised and socialised world. My guess is that he likes teaching men and boys how not to be men and boys, but simpering social slaves of the state.

Anyway, very good call Waverley. Now we can all look forward to Dr West's article next year when he asks the same idiotic question.

I think most of us have more to do every Christmas than to watch Baldrick and Blackadder. They had their day, mmmm ......about 1968 or so, yes? Give or take a decade or two. A bit like Monty Python, despite all attempts to resurrect them.

And life would improve if I never again saw that tedious Stephen Fry pontificating about everything. "who's a clever boy, then?" seems to sum up his every utterance.

Luckily the ABC isn't running his funny ( ?) antics seven days a week but some other Pommy claptrap instead.

Meanwhile, are we allowed to ask: what's happening with boys worldwide?

//I think most of us have more to do every Christmas than to watch Baldrick and Blackadder.//

Well duh... doesn't mean we can't enjoy a quiet hour or so in front of the telly of an evening in the lead up to Christmas. No wonder you're such a cranky old Grinch if you're so worked to the bone you haven't got time to chill out over Christmas.

//They had their day, mmmm ......about 1968 or so, yes? Give or take a decade or two. A bit like Monty Python, despite all attempts to resurrect them.

And life would improve if I never again saw that tedious Stephen Fry pontificating about everything. "who's a clever boy, then?" seems to sum up his every utterance.

Luckily the ABC isn't running his funny ( ?) antics seven days a week but some other Pommy claptrap instead.//

Have you ever thought about just not watching shows you don't enjoy, instead of making a big song and dance about how awful they are in order to demonstrate how much better your taste is than the tastes of the great unwashed?

Pretentious twat.

//Meanwhile, are we allowed to ask: what's happening with boys worldwide?//

Oh do cheer up, Mr. Scrooge. 'Tis Christmas eve. Can't we call a Christmas truce to the culture wars, come up out of our trenches, and kick a football around with the wicked feminazis? You can go back to being a miserable bastard the other 51 weeks of the year.

Oh dear and I was hoping someone would pick up my misspellings and grammatical mistakes heh heh

//Oh dear and I was hoping someone would pick up my misspellings and grammatical mistakes//

Yeah, but it's not your literacy that's the problem, is it?

I mean, I don't know exactly what your problem is, because I'm not qualified to make that sort of diagnosis. But I do know that your literacy is fine (for a given value of 'fine').

It appears that there has been a change in the educational outcomes for boys probably due to the changes in the educational system and due to wider recent social libertarian policies.

I guess that boys are "the victims we had to have"- in order to "improve" our society along social liberty lines.