Boys who display school smarts are often ridiculed as effeminate by peers and even adults in areas where academic excellence by males is typically devalued. It’s almost as if manhood and masculinity have been hijacked by a thug culture far removed from education.
By Easton & Autumn A. Arnett
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At Haile Selassie High School in Kingston, Jamaica, less than 1 percent of students go on to college. An overwhelming majority of the seventh-to-11th-grade students at the school are taking remedial courses. Students in a ninth-grade reading class are working hard to attain a first-grade reading level by the end of the school year; currently, many students are on a preschool reading level.
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