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She felt political correctness now ``pervades everything'', including the education sector, where the male teacher flight was evident.

Girls knock boys off their perch

By Gill Moodie

Sundaytimes.co.za

Sunday, June 29, 2003

Male learners fall behind and drop out of school as a new breed of female teenager begins to dominate in class.

Girls are trouncing boys in the blackboard jungle. Research shows that more girls are finishing school than boys.

A paper to be published in EduSource Data News by the Education Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, shows that more boys are dropping out of school.

The paper, by independent education researcher Helen Perry, shows that last year 60% of matric pupils who got A averages were girls, and 57% of Bs and Cs were achieved by girls.

Education Department figures show that in 2001 there were 1.8 million girls at high school compared with 1.6 million boys. That is unusual for a developing country, says Perry, and contrary to education trends in sub顺从者 — a submissive person-Saharan Africa.

One school, Edgemead High School in Cape Town, is so concerned that girls dominate in the classroom that it has separated Grade 8 into single-sex classes. "If it's all boys in a class, someone's got to say something," says principal Dr Malcolm Venter, explaining that boys are too intimidated to pipe up in the presence of girls.

"It is possible that boys are more immature because they don't have role models. Many of these kids don't have fathers around," he says.