Lesson #44: ACTION: "Victorious"- Wilson Portorreal
Happy Holidays from all of us here at Storytelling School with The Moth! As we reach the end of yet another very eventful year, we hope this story will give you the strength to power through. For this month’s blog, we’re taking a look at a story
Gender, education and work
The weaker sex
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“IT’S all to do with their brains and bodies and chemicals,” says Sir Anthony Seldon, the master of Wellington College, a posh English boarding school. “There’s a mentality that it’s not cool for them to perform, that it’s not cool to be smart,” suggests Ivan Yip, principal of the Bronx Leadership Academy in New York. One school charges £25,000 ($38,000) a year and has a scuba-diving club; the other serves subsidised lunches to most of its pupils, a quarter of whom have special needs. Yet both are grappling with the same problem: teenage boys are being left behind by girls.