01.02.10
It's Scrabble formerly in a classroom for high-achieving students.
As the board comes out, one 14-year-old boy says nervously: "I force they didn't have glass doors on this classroom. I'd hate for anyone to pace by and see me playing Scrabble."
According to Dr. Leonard Sax, the American novelist of 'Boys Adrift', that comment is symbolic of a rising spread of male apathy towards education.
Dr. Sax, who has a background as a family physician and digging pschologist, will be in Bermuda next week to give a lecture and workshop on solutions to whereabouts this problem. The lecture will be on February 8 at Somersfield Academy.
"In Ontario, Canada, in terms of column proficiency, the gap between girls and boys is now larger than the gap between rich kids and necessitous kids. In many cases, we were comparing brothers and sisters in the same household."
Source: Royal Gazette