ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that there are many different stories to tell about boys and schooling. Just as a number of different stories can be told of boys at school, a range of different strategies has been proposed for responding to boys' issues. For many parents, teachers, academics, education advisers and consultants, the issue of how well boys fare at school, and how well they are served by schools, is a highly contentious and emotional one, because the issue has so often been framed in terms of opposition and blame. School is sometimes celebrated as a race, and no more so than by the champions of yesteryear. Schools are forced to spend considerable time, energy and resources on managing bad boys, on developing programs and strategies to handle disruptive behaviour, and on repairing the damage done by some groups of boys to schools and school property.
