All in all, an interesting article. I didn't really see from the quotes in the article that the parents were responsible for the boys' lack of school skills. If the parents really were at fault, wouldn't girls be doing badly in school too?
The one mom was a math teacher, and the other parents just seemed concerned and seemed to be making efforts to communicate with the schools.
But this part really pissed me off:
"Some scholars, notably Christina Hoff Sommers, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, charge that misguided feminism is what's been hurting boys. In the 1990s, she says, girls were making strong, steady progress toward parity in schools, but feminist educators portrayed them as disadvantaged and lavished them with support and attention. Boys, meanwhile, whose rates of achievement had begun to falter, were ignored and their problems allowed to fester"
So this self-hating bitch blames girls, women and feminism for the fact that boys don't do well in school? Yeah, whatever...it's ALWAYS the woman's fault, according to some people (sigh)...