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Executive Supervisor of Cherokee Creek Boys Institution, David LePere, talked to Lon Woodbury and Liz McGhee about how we can help boys succeed in school on L.A. Talk Radio.
Lon Woodbury is the host of the radio show, Parenting Choices for Struggling Adolescents. He is an Independent Educational Professional and the publisher of the prominent Woodbury Reports. He has assisted families since 1984. His co-host Elizabeth McGhee is the Director of Admissions and Referral Relations at Sandhill Child Development, and she has over nineteen years assisting families.
A Brief Bio On David LePere
Mr. LePere began began working in the field of education and therapy in 1989. As an educator, he has been a group leader and wilderness therapy guide. Since 2003, he has served as a School Director and Executive Supervisor for two therapeutic institutions as well as a wilderness treatment program. His work in team leadership, and his extensive experience in management, financial planning, program development, team training and risk management are a remarkable contribution to Cherokee Creek Boys School.
Practical Ideas on How We Can Help Boys Succeed in School
David talked about how there is a problem in the education of boys in all kinds of schools, both public and private schools. As a father of three young boys himself, he is aware of just how boyish behavior can usually run contrary to the punitive rules created by schools. Additionally, in his role as an educator at Cherokee Creek Boys School, a middle school for young boys, he has listened to lots of frightening stories about how the zero tolerance policy in schools could often cause kids to be suspended or even expelled for boyish shenanigans. In many cases, their low impulse control had been misdiagnosed as ADHD.
He described how the boy crisis across the country was responsible for some very alarming statistics. For instance, 80 percent of boys drop out of senior high school, 40 percent leave college, and 70 percent earn all the D's and F's in schools. Although there many factors for this disturbing news, from culture's expectation of men as bread winners rather than thinkers, to cultural shifts in the academic system that leaned toward improving things for girls, he really felt that the misconception of gender plasticity had done a lot of damage. This is the unscientific belief that men and women have similar brains and can study and do well in the same topics with equal ease. Besides problems in educational institutions, the boy crisis also created a failure to launch, a situation where young men did not really feel inspired to leave their parental home, get a job, find an apartment, and raise their own families.
Lon Woodbury is the host of the radio show, Parenting Choices for Struggling Adolescents. He is an Independent Educational Professional and the publisher of the prominent Woodbury Reports. He has assisted families since 1984. His co-host Elizabeth McGhee is the Director of Admissions and Referral Relations at Sandhill Child Development, and she has over nineteen years assisting families.
A Brief Bio On David LePere
Mr. LePere began began working in the field of education and therapy in 1989. As an educator, he has been a group leader and wilderness therapy guide. Since 2003, he has served as a School Director and Executive Supervisor for two therapeutic institutions as well as a wilderness treatment program. His work in team leadership, and his extensive experience in management, financial planning, program development, team training and risk management are a remarkable contribution to Cherokee Creek Boys School.
Practical Ideas on How We Can Help Boys Succeed in School
David talked about how there is a problem in the education of boys in all kinds of schools, both public and private schools. As a father of three young boys himself, he is aware of just how boyish behavior can usually run contrary to the punitive rules created by schools. Additionally, in his role as an educator at Cherokee Creek Boys School, a middle school for young boys, he has listened to lots of frightening stories about how the zero tolerance policy in schools could often cause kids to be suspended or even expelled for boyish shenanigans. In many cases, their low impulse control had been misdiagnosed as ADHD.
He described how the boy crisis across the country was responsible for some very alarming statistics. For instance, 80 percent of boys drop out of senior high school, 40 percent leave college, and 70 percent earn all the D's and F's in schools. Although there many factors for this disturbing news, from culture's expectation of men as bread winners rather than thinkers, to cultural shifts in the academic system that leaned toward improving things for girls, he really felt that the misconception of gender plasticity had done a lot of damage. This is the unscientific belief that men and women have similar brains and can study and do well in the same topics with equal ease. Besides problems in educational institutions, the boy crisis also created a failure to launch, a situation where young men did not really feel inspired to leave their parental home, get a job, find an apartment, and raise their own families.
About the Author:
Learn more about Lon Woodbury on Struggling Teens. He has recorded the entire interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at any time.
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