we have meetings in church basements and we do it the way that we know how to and that is connecting with people and then let the chips fall where it may and if we do not defeat them this time, jim crow didn't come down after one below. we live in a country that has stretched the lead car sparked some of the greatest transformation the world has seen and it was regular ordinary people which i hope this isn't derogatory, but regular ordinary people like kari. [laughter] and the folks in this room that are brave enough to stand up and say what is right and in very difficult times. i am encouraged because i'm looking around the room and all of us represent a different segment in the cities of the charges to leave here and begin to organize the communities and churches, fraternities, sororities to make sure that the issues are eliminated and when the candidate emerges they will have a platform to run on and not just the party to represent.

thank you. [applause] those were the perfect words to end on. if thank you, brandon, amisha and ben and to the haymarket brewery and all of you for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations]

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in our schools there has been a decline in the character education and moral education and the move to replacing it. things like self-esteem programs, various therapeutic approaches that we have tried and true methods of the civilizing voice. it's through good sportsmanship they can get from their coaches and the kind of moral guidance from parents with them reinforced by teachers. and i just find these have moved away from that. the second problem, and their

problems would go, too comer i believe now belize has become second-class citizens in our schools. and their problems are severe severely neglected. a young man as far this likely to go to his college and his sister. you look across the ethnic groups and racial groups and socioeconomic groups and you find that the blaze are behind their female counterparts. they are far less literate. the average 15-year-old boy has their writing skills of the 13-year-old girl reading about a year and a half behind her, and most importantly they like schools a lot less, they are disengaged. there may have been a time when this wasn't a big problem. we had an economy could get a high school degree and make it hard in the middle class. there were some educators at the school of education that said the passport to the middle class

used to be the diploma but not anymore. there is a new economy and the new passport is education beyond high school and the girls seem to be getting it and belize less and less. but i feel that that problem i can't find major organizations or government groups. the department of education is still talking about shortchange girls because they were deeply i think influenced by the early research and they said girls were shortchanged in the 1990's and so they have not adjusted or adapted to the times so we have a white house council on women and girls concerned about the education of girls and that they do not fall behind, and when it's the ways that are like every significant matrix behind girls. so the white house council on belize as well. >> christina is a recent atlantic article you write that women in the u.s. now earn 62%

of associates' degrees. 57% of bachelor's degrees and 60% of master's degrees, 52% of doctorates, college admissions officers and work them concerned and finally panic of the male applicants. if the enrollment falls below 40% or below, female students began to flee. officials at the schools come at or near the tipping point are helplessly watching as their campuses become like retirement villages with a fight of women competing for a handful of surviving men. they're looking at 60% female, 65 seems to get worse each year and i would say they are panicked. at the college of william and mary you have to do things about

attracting more member the college of william and mary. well there is one statistician who said that if the current trends continue by the year 2688 the last male will graduate from college. but there's a grain of truth. it's quite a mystery why they would be so much more aware of the importance of education it is manifest in the working-class that you see the girls of performing the boies shows that among the highest performers, the girls are not only getting far more a's and eight losses and take more advancement class's but they are more ambitious. the higher percentage go to graduate school and law school.

now, again, i celebrate this what has happened with some girls. it is inspiring. and some of it may be because of the initiatives in the movement. i don't see that everything they did was wrong. i just wish that when they discovered that there were gender differences in education, and i wish it happened instead of becoming like a rolls partisan movement that it becomes a movement to improve the educational prospects of all children and help the girls where they were behind and a boy is where they were falling behind. that might have meant more for girls in math and science because they were not doing as well as the boys at one time and we didn't manage to close that gap, but that would have meant helping boys and just about everything else, reading, writing, school the engagement, just in general. the classroom, we have pretty good research that shows even teachers have a bias against

unruly students. it's understandable. but these students could be five or 6-years-old. so why don't know if it's something we want to blame the boys for. they have high spiritedness and it is that we haven't done a good enough job. >> is there a shortage of male teachers and does this have an effect if there is? >> there are very few male teachers in elementary school. slightly more in high school, but still this media slight exaggeration, but one critic in the current school system said that the schools are run by women for girls. again, an early statement, but not by much and a lot of the ways feel that way -- boys feel that way. a group of educators, researchers