Schools are seriously retarding boys’ education by giving them trashy, crude and vulgar books to read, writes Kevin Donnelly.As might be expected, the recent conference on boys’ education held in Melbourne, the 4th Biennial Conference Working with Boys Building Fine Men, raised the issue of literacy and what can be done to raise standards and to get boys more involved in English classes.Since the release of the 2002 House of Representatives report Boys: Getting it Right, a consensus has develope…
