Girls Coming Top in Exams

When girls got lower marks than boys in most of their exams,
Often it was just dismissed with "Oh, the poor wee lambs,
It isn't really fair on them to let them think they can
Absorb an education just as well as any man.
Their lower marks just prove the point, their little brains can't cope,
And most however hard they try can never really hope
To do as well as all the boys whose marks are at the top;
For they are not designed to learn and really ought to swap
Ideas of education for a far more natural role,
With most of them regarding being a housewife as their goal."

But when today it is the boys who're lagging well behind,
There's not a soul declaring that boys' brains are not designed
For more than simple learning, and they should accept their lot,
Trailing well behind the girls, who occupy the slot
Which in the past it long was thought they never could achieve
For up until quite recently few people would believe,
That given equal chances as the boys they'd sail ahead,
No longer at the bottom, coming top in class instead,

And now there are loud cries around that something must be done,
To stop the girls enjoying all the places in the sun;
There must be changes in the schools so boys' marks will improve,
Claiming that girls' higher marks do little more than prove
Exams and teaching nowadays are aimed at girls, not boys;
The current ethos in our schools quite frequently destroys
A boy's inherent interest and the way he likes to learn;
Resulting in their poor results, which are a real concern.