Boring Boys to Academic Death

The great Neil Postman wrote a remarkable book called Amusing Ourselves to Death. It is at least as predictive as Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World.

Across every school qualification for leavers in NZ - girls do significantly better than boys - the gap at University Entrance is never less than 10%.

Having taught at two boys’ schools (Tauranga Boys…