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The current education system is found to be better suited for female students, leading to a growing gender gap in schools. Factors such as mental disorders, lack of male teachers, and teaching methods contribute to this crisis. Boys are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, and there is a lack of understanding of their needs. Increasing the number of male teachers could help address this issue. The education system should also be reformed to focus on preparing students for independent success rather than just being employees. Holding back students can have advantages but also disadvantages, particularly in athletics. Researching and supporting struggling students is important. The male education crisis needs to be addressed before it worsens. Hello, and welcome to the Visionary Podcast, the podcast where we talk about school-related topics and other things that are related to students. I'm your host, Braden Krzysiek, and today we will be talking about the male education crisis. School is seen to be a way for people to learn and expand their knowledge, but what if I told you this education system was slowly beginning to hurt the people who use it? Yeah, I'm telling the truth. The current education has been found to hurt male students as it is better suited for the female students. In 1982, there was no gap between male and female students when it came to education. They were all on the same level, but by the year 2019, the gender gap in schools grew to 16% in favor of the women. This gap is still growing. There are a lot of factors that come into this, like mental disorders, such as ADHD and OCD and all of these, but as well as mental health and smaller things, such as just how a teacher chooses to teach their class or the fact there are significantly less male teachers incoming to teach, and this issue is almost never talked about. Well, about recently, nobody really seemed to notice that the issue is there, but now that it is growing to the stature that it is, there are people doing studies on this issue, and they have found that the issues start as early as the age of six, as the female brain is just already more developed than that of the male counterparts. I want to go into a little bit more depth on the mental disorders. Most boys are way more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. In studies, it's been found that 12% of boys from the age of three to 17 are diagnosed with ADHD, compared to the five-and-a-half girls that are diagnosed with ADHD. These are some crazy numbers. When talking about people with ADHD, it's estimated that over 265,000 kids from the age of three to five are already diagnosed with ADHD, and estimated 2.4 million US children from the ages of six to 11 are diagnosed with ADHD, and then we go to 3.3 million children from the ages of 12 to 17, and then it goes even farther to over 366 million adults worldwide that have ADHD. The issue that we see, other than the mental disorders, is just the fact that there is a lack of male teachers. Out of all of the teachers worldwide, 74.3% of those teachers are female, and only 25.7% of the teachers are male. This arises some issues, because this means that they're naturally more comfortable with teaching to females, because they don't understand what is going through the male head. They can't just create a lesson plan and expect it to work for both sides. They have to pick and choose. The idea of getting more male teachers is super, super big, because they understand a little bit more of how to get through to these male students in order to help them succeed. The TED Talk by Richard Reeves, talking about this male education crisis, he talks a lot about males not having impulse control, which basically means that a guy doesn't just want to sit down and do homework. He thinks of all these other things that he could be doing, and he just procrastinates, and eventually they just don't get it done, because they can't sit down long enough in order to get this homework done. That would be something that having more male teachers would help with, because they understand the fact that male students can't sit down for long periods of time to just do homework, because then their mind starts to wander, and they think of the other things they could be doing. With a male teacher, they're understanding of that, and they're able to find ways to keep them engaged in doing their homework, whether that is making them do it in class or just making sure to check in on them to see their work throughout the week, instead of just assuming that they're going to get it done, because chances are they're going to wait to the very last minute and then put something together that's not as best as they really could have done. Another simple fix would just be to change the way that the education system works, because the way that it is set up, it's made to make the students into employees. It's not made to make them into something that will function as an independent person. It's set up to make them part of a big corporation and not to strive to be better. They're striving for a certain amount of, I guess, affirmation from these classes to be just an employee. If we had the education set up to where people were striving to be CEOs, business owners, all these other things, instead of just telling them to get a nine to five, it would improve the quality of education that the students are getting, because even in high school, most students don't even learn how to do taxes. You just sit there, you go over math that most people don't use in their lives. They go over geometry. They go over geography. They go over these other things that don't really necessarily have a big impact on them, instead of teaching them things that they need in order to be a functional person in society. There's been plenty of ups with this education system. We've had plenty of people do great things, but if you look at the big examples of people who didn't follow the education system, we have people who dropped out of college and became multi-billionaires, because they didn't follow this idea of getting a nine to five and working for the rest of their lives. They strived to be the best that they possibly could be, instead of settling for something that they just weren't interested in. These issues, they're not hard to fix, but we as a society need to find a way to fix these issues sooner rather than later, because this crisis that we are having with these male students is just going to get larger and larger by the day. Until we finally figure out a better way to teach these students how to function, we're going to keep seeing this decline in these male students' grades, their acceptance to college, even the amount of people dropping out is going to go up and up and up, because they just have been set up for failure. Now, there's this idea of holding their kids back at the age of six before putting them into preschool, because it gives their brain a better chance to be prepared for the knowledge that they're going to take for the next, I don't know, eight years of their life, from the age of six to 18. But this comes with its downsides, one of those being with athletics, because a lot of people already hold their kids back, and the only reason that they do that is because they want them to have an advantage in sports. This causes issues, because the people who don't hold their kids back, their kids have to go against competition that's older than them, but in a grade below them. Some people are holding back their kids to where they're almost 18, going into their sophomore or junior year, which is just, it's unfair to the people who don't like that idea. Even though it would theoretically work, because their brains would be more developed, not everyone is going to just, yeah, I'll hold my kid for longer. Not everyone wants to do that. So it's like a bad, it's a win-lose situation. Yes, they're set up more for success in their future, but if they want to pursue something like athletics, they're set up for failure if they aren't one to tell back, because, once again, not everyone will do that. And I know from personal experience, I was a really late birthday, I should be in a grade lower than I am. But I was not held back because my parents wanted to get me into school earlier. And this kind of hurt me, because in my head, I thought nothing was wrong until I hit high school. And I realized that there was a kid two grades below me who was older than me, and he was way more developed than I was. And he had way more years of eligibility for high school. And there was nothing that I could do about it, because he was just older. So it kind of messes with your brain in the fact that no matter what you can do, your brain tells you, he's better than you because he's older. It's like when you're a little kid, you look up to the older kids. You want to be just like them. But when they're in a grade lower, and you're in the grade higher, but they're older than you, it's really hard on you mentally. I mean, there's a lot more issues that come with this, but we've come to the limit of the time we have for today. So all I'm going to say is, on a final note, please do some research on the subject and see what you can do in order to help at least somebody with this. If they're struggling, they might not say so. So check in on them. So check in on them. See if they're doing good. And if they're not, try and help them, because not every guy is going to be doing great all the time. So if that's with school, mental health, anything, help them. They need it. That's it for today. Have a good rest of your guys' day. This is Brayden Krzysztosek signing out. Thank you.