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On Point | Podcast

Falling Behind: 'We're in jail with our emotions'

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 52 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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0:55.6

Picture in your mind for a moment a group of teenage students sitting together and pouring their

1:01.4

hearts out about the things that are stressing them out, about their feelings of inadequacy,

1:06.7

about their heartaches.

1:08.8

Now, be honest.

1:14.8

Did you picture a group of boys or a group of girls?

1:23.2

I'm going to guess that almost all of you imagined that kind of emotional honesty and support coming from a group of girls. And that's okay.

1:29.6

That's what we are conditioned to expect.

1:33.0

That's what boys themselves are conditioned to expect.

1:37.2

And that's one of the reasons why it's notoriously difficult to get almost any teen boy to risk the vulnerability required

1:41.2

to trust other people with his feelings.

1:47.3

But the truth is, boys in America are reporting increasing rates of loneliness. They're in desperate need of emotionally supportive

1:53.2

outlets. But how do you get teen boys to open up and talk? I mean, we can always cut in the class.

2:06.6

At the Haverford School, the boys like to talk. Founded in 1884,

2:08.6

Haverford is an all-boys pre-K through 12 private school just outside of Philadelphia.

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