Sure. Bring back traditional male social building blocks. Overall, I think this would be a good thing. But I expect plenty of resistance from everyone currently having a stake in our current system.riggerjack I suspect you're correct. Perhaps we should encourage more combat sports, boxing, wrestling etc. Create a disciplined, structured environment for young men to vent out their natural aggression, feel more empowered.
But more to the point, I don't think it would help much with school shootings. These are the guys who started out getting picked last for the kickball team. More sports culture won't change their status differential. We need to flatten the social inequality.
I propose that what we need, is to stop making school a popularity contest. If that isn't clear, please read Paul Graham's http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html why nerds are unpopular.
Why do we group children by age, rather than ability? Why do we extend adolescence, without exceptions?
What do we expect of someone who excels at the standards we supply, after being chained to a class full of disinterested, abusive peers? If it's "the best years of his life" why would we be surprised by a negative reaction to a negative situation?
As BRUTE put it, school is prison. Why are we surprised that the inmates shank each other? Maybe schools should be less like prison, or maybe we should be pulling specific students into some kind of work release program.