Trailer: 'Falling behind: The miseducation of America's boys'
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Good morning, everybody. Good morning, this is my mom's show. Y'all ready to have a good day today? Hi, it's Meghna here. You've heard me talking about it multiple times in the On Point podcast, and now it's just days away. It's our next special series and one that I really care about. It's called Falling Behind, The Miseducation of America's Boys.

The ways that school doesn't work for lots of boys comes with a higher penalty. He calls it six cruel hours of our lives, you know, an acronym for school. The data will show that we're failing them desperately. If you have a teacher who tells you, like, you're really badly behaved and sends you all these messages that you're not going to do well, it turns out there's a little bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy there.

As a first grade teacher, relationships with the boys became a window into what I argue now is a need for the reimagining of Black boyhood. Just because your skin color think that you condone violence, because they see other Black children on the news condoning violence, killing, like...

It brings you down. One thing I do with my class is I always ask them if they can remember the time when they were first told that boys don't cry. And 100% of them can do it. Like as men, we're like in jail with our emotions. Like we can't let them out. It just sucks. The quote actually comes from Frederick Douglass. It's easier to build strong boys than rebuild broken men. Today's boys are tomorrow's men.

On Point's five-part series, Falling Behind, The Miseducation of America's Boys. It's all next week right here in the On Point podcast feed. Subscribe or follow so you don't miss an episode.