Some of the data are mysteriously missing. Recess Is Being Dropped Incredible as it sounds, even recess is being dropped says Sommers. It has been totally eliminated in Atlanta, which has built a school without any playground at all. The superintendent there says that many parents still don't understand and ask when they'll be getting the new playground. Needless to say, school officials today would never act in a manner equally dismissive of girls' characteristic desires and needs, for they know they would immediately face a storm of justified protests from women advocates.
Boys have no such protectors.
The only time we notice is when they pull the trigger. He said this in a Newsweek cover story. In addition, to the national crisis, the boys who pick up guns, the boys who are suicidal and homicidal, the boys next door or the boy living in the room next door is also, I have found in my research, isolated, feeling lonely, can't express his feelings. And that happens because of the way we bring boys up. Although Harvard's Graduate School of Education started the war against boys, its Medical School has now joined in.