The depletion of vocational courses in high schools has also hit young men very hard.  It used to be you could learn basic trade skills and understand what it might be like to work in those trades, and prepare to head into an apprenticeship program that would eventually make you a licensed _____ while you earned a living.  Instead, all you get to learn is what another 4-5 years of education will probably be like, and it's not surprising that more kinesthetic students say "forget it".