Where have all the boys gone?
The result of the SSC examination is finally published. Some students are overjoyed, some are not. Pundits are debating if the higher pass rate reflects the increasing quality of education. As I was standing near the newspaper stall waiting for my bus and browsing the newspapers, I remembered one facebook post: "Only female students sat for SSC exams this year." Right after the SSC examinations began, someone posted the front pages of the major newspapers on Facebook, all of which had the pictures of girl students attending the examination.
The user commented that he searched all the newspaper sites but could not find a single photograph of the boy students attending the exams. And when the results of the SSC examinations were published, the same thing happened again. Smiling faces of the girl students, and of course the pretty ones, were published in all the newspapers!
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