Falling Behind: 'We're in jail with our emotions'
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Teenage boys are experiencing increasing rates of loneliness and suicidal thoughts -- which is having a direct impact on their achievement in school. How can schools address that? The final part in On Point’s special series “Falling Behind: The Miseducation of America’s Boys.”
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| 0:39.7 | Picture in your mind for a moment a group of teenage students sitting together and |
| 0:44.8 | pouring their hearts out about the things that are stressing them out, about their feelings |
| 0:49.4 | of inadequacy, about their heartaches. |
| 0:52.9 | Now, be honest. Did you picture a group of boys or a group of girls? |
| 1:01.8 | I'm going to guess that almost all of you imagined that kind of emotional honesty and support |
| 1:07.3 | coming from a group of girls. And that's okay. |
| 1:11.8 | That's what we are conditioned to expect. |
| 1:14.2 | That's what boys themselves are conditioned to expect. |
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