Essentially this guy wrote this book (we're reading the intro) about how boys today are so unmotivated when it comes to school or basically anything except their friends and video games. There's extreme apathy for school and even if they end up going to a 4-year college--only 42% do--most won't graduate and do anything with it. Girls, on the other hand seem to be pretty motivated on their own.
He has spent 7 years trying to understand the phenomenon and thinks there are some factors that contribute like the way we do school nowadays and such, but overall it's just weird that boys don't want to do school when girls do. It might be from the media--Tom Sawyer, Ferris Beuller--examples of boys who didn't want to go to school, but they were at least motivated by other things. Boys today are perfectly content to sit in front of the TV playing video games all day. It's bizarre. That's where the article ends. It was pretty repetitive.
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