He hates English. The only thing he'll read are sports and video game magazines. He is an organizational disaster. The reason I know your son is because he's just like every other American middle-school boy, including mine. And according to child development experts, our boys are perfectly normal.
Boys require much more physical activity during the school day.
And they develop fine motor, language and social skills much later than girls. So if we all know this, schools must be using unique strategies to address boys' needs the same way they've been addressing the needs of girls for the last 10 years. For example, administrators must surely be suggesting that boys start school at an older age than girls. They must be offering boys the opportunity to do all assignments on the computer if they find writing difficult. By now they're surely offering reading material that's full of adventure and mystery.