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Little girls already see themselves as academic front-runners, but often the rebel boy wins out in the end, says Jenny McCartney.
By Jenny McCartney
Published: 7:00PM BST 04 Sep 2010
My four-year-old son starts school next week, and is already fizzing with excitement. But if recent gloomy reports are to be believed, the lot of a British schoolboy is fated to be one of slowly shrinking self-belief.
Last week it was revealed that almost three out of 10 primary schools are now staffed exclusively by women. It also emerged that, by the age of four, little girls generally hold the opinion that they are cleverer, more successful and harder-working than boys. By the age of seven or eight, the downtrodden boys are inclined to agree.….Continue Reading
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