Summary Of The Plight Of Young Males

The educational system in the United States is seemingly set up for everyone to be able to succeed. But our young men are falling behind academically which is making a large gap in between the genders. With the way the educational system is set up, our young women are accelerating faster than our young men. We need to fix this academic discrepancy before the gap becomes too large. We need to make a new way to teach our young men, so the academic gap can close.
Statistics are showing that young women are advancing faster than young men because they are not being questioned as much as young women in their classes. In “The Plight of Young Males” Saul Kaplan wrote about how the in United States education system is failing our young men. Kaplan gives us statistics throughout the article that shows how the inconsistencies in the system are affecting our young men. He also writes about how this educational gap is not only affecting race in addition to gender. The academic gap is more so affecting the minorities who have graduated high school and moved on to higher education. This gap has made it harder for minorities to obtain their degrees because they are not on the same level as the other
Yet, Kaplan reaffirms that “The gender achievement gap is astounding. The average 11th-grade boy writes at the level of the average 8th-grade girl.” (Kaplan 733), this statement is shocking to think that we are leaving an academic writing gap between the genders and are not attempting to fix it. We need our young men to be learning and writing at the level as the females in their grade. The United States needs to build a new system that will keep an equal playing field for both young women and men in our educational system. If we leave our educational system the way it is now and do not change anything, there will always be an academic gap between the