Wrong. Its a sign that the school system's been failing young men for years now, rapidly causing them to lose interest as the current teaching methods are better suited to girls on average.
Without the ability to run around and play roughly (this is NOT to be confused with bullying and other often anti-intellectual behavior, which happen even more due to a lack of proper outlets) and expend energy, combined with a lack of "hands on" learning, most boys very rapidly lose interest (and thus grades and the ability to go on to higher degrees) in school.
I myself despised it greatly until I landed myself in a tech-school after dropping out of college. There the teaching was hands on and less "rote memorisation"/standardised-testing, and my grades shifted from the old low 60's of highschool to a 98% average. It was difficult, requiring learning not only of tool use but also physics, structural design, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic concepts and calculations, logic controller programming languages and welding, both the theory AND practice behind all the above listed subjects and some more, in very intensive courses with far more material per course than college ever bothered trying to teach or sell me in a year. But there It was possible for men to thrive and learn (95% of the students are male there).
My graphic calculator saw more wear and tear from sheer use and formulae (that part we did have to know by heart) than it did in my entire maths/physics-focused highschool and college paths combined.
However, while much was learned, its still technically not a "master's" degree or other university levels. Those at the moment all require that you actually get through the highschool, SAT and college hurdles and a few years of bachelors before you can actually start truly learning something of interest.
Which is extremely unfortunate, and, from what we can see of the anti-intellectual behavior on the rise in the united states, extremely dangerous.
