<p>Hello, new to the forum, late to the thread, although I read the whole thing with interest. I’m just wondering when this trend started to appear. I know that when I was in high school, the girls (in general) out-achieved the boys and I graduated in 1979. I recall it being the same in elementary and middle school. </p>
<p>My son (HS sophomore) was inducted into National Honor Society the other night and there were 71 sophomores inducted and 25 of them were boys. </p>
<p>I got out my HS yearbook and my husband’s. My high school had 107 girls and 48 boys in NHS. My husband graduated in 1978 and there were 43 girls and 10 boys in NHS. Our high schools were similar size, mine was in a well-off suburb of Washington, DC and his was in a university town in the midwest (the same high school my son attends). Their high school has a lot more economic diversity than mine did.</p>
<p>This was the only criteria I could find to compare achievement between then and now, but it is probably a pretty good one. I’m not sure the disparity between girls and boys in high school is really news.</p>