School is not built for boys (mini-doc)

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Why are so many American boys hooked on Adderall?

Millions of young men are being sent to school, confined to a desk, told to sit still and ordered to do homework. And when they rebel, the default explanation is that there must be something broken in their brains, that they have "attention deficit disorder" and need swift neuro-chemical correction.

But what if this diagnosis gets the causality backwards? That the problem isn’t the boy; it’s the school. That the particular design features of modern k-12 violate the basic programming of the young male homo sapien...

Featuring Dr. Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute, attachment specialist Adam Lane Smith, and Rafe Kelley, the founder of Evolve Move Play.

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