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 Parenting Choices for Struggling Teens radio show. He is an Independent Educational Consultant and the founder of the popular Woodbury Reports. He has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984. Co-host Elizabeth McGhee is the Director of Admissions and Referral Relations at Sandhill Child Development Center, and she has over 19 years of clinical, consulting and referral relations experience.
About David LePere
In 1989, David became an therapeutic education and learning specialist. He later became a primary counselor and wilderness guide. From 2003 on, he has served in executive positions for two therapeutic schools and one wilderness treatment program. His unique blend of professional experiences are a tremendous asset to Cherokee Creek.
Practical Ideas on How We Can Help Boys Succeed in School
Mr. LePere talked about how there is a problem in the education of boys in both public and private schools. As a father of three children himself, all boys, he understands firsthand just how boyish high spirits frequently disrupt the norms of regular schools. Furthermore, in his role as an educator at Cherokee Spring Boys School, which is a Middle School, he has heard numerous terrifying tales about just how the no tolerance policy in numerous educational institutions have often caused boys to be kicked out for boyish antics. Oftentimes, too, their reduced impulse control has been labeled 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 Parenting Choices for Struggling Teens radio show. He is an Independent Educational Consultant and the founder of the popular Woodbury Reports. He has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984. Co-host Elizabeth McGhee is the Director of Admissions and Referral Relations at Sandhill Child Development Center, and she has over 19 years of clinical, consulting and referral relations experience.
About David LePere
In 1989, David became an therapeutic education and learning specialist. He later became a primary counselor and wilderness guide. From 2003 on, he has served in executive positions for two therapeutic schools and one wilderness treatment program. His unique blend of professional experiences are a tremendous asset to Cherokee Creek.
Practical Ideas on How We Can Help Boys Succeed in School
Mr. LePere talked about how there is a problem in the education of boys in both public and private schools. As a father of three children himself, all boys, he understands firsthand just how boyish high spirits frequently disrupt the norms of regular schools. Furthermore, in his role as an educator at Cherokee Spring Boys School, which is a Middle School, he has heard numerous terrifying tales about just how the no tolerance policy in numerous educational institutions have often caused boys to be kicked out for boyish antics. Oftentimes, too, their reduced impulse control has been labeled 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:
Lon Woodbury, the founder of Struggling Teens, has recorded the entire interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at their convenience.
