Our Jan. 30 issue on boys'learning problems drew more than 200 letters from parents, educators, young people and others struggling to figure out why boys are falling behind at such alarming rates. A headmaster suggested we cannot ignore the educational and emotional needs of boys: "Males will not ask for directions to their stores or to their lives; we need to give all our young people the directions, whether they ask for them or not." Another reader said that by blaming recent reforms that help girls, we all stand to lose. "This leaves us in a zero-sum scramble for educational support and resources, a boys-against-girls game of dodgeball where just about everybody ends up nursing bruises."
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