Nearly forty years ago, I was interviewing a senior New South Wales bureaucrat about how badly boys were doing in schools.
‘What do we do if we find girls continue to draw ahead of boys?’ I asked her.
‘We wait 2,000 years and continue to analyse the results very, very carefully,’ said this Director of Curriculum.
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