Eldo, while I'm not sure that total separation of the genders throughout grade and middle schools is best, you are exactly correct that public schools just aren't working for too many boys.  By high school, on the average girls are doing much  better.  Boys are more likely to drop out, while girls are more likely to be the outstanding students as we see each spring when the schools report their top students, valedictorians etc.  And of course girls are more likely to graduate and go to college; women are more likely to graduate from colleges than men.
Add to this that men are far more likely to commit crimes than are women, and today's climbing death rates for working class white men, and this should wake us up  to  the reality of  having a real gender problem.
Regarding this editorial I just want to say, based on having run an educational program in a county jail, and having  had contact with Sponsors in the past, this is a GREAT editorial and Sponsors is a GREAT program!!!