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But after his chemistry teacher called home, it was his parents who made him think again.

His mother, Lorna Seeley, a daycare supervisor, and his father, Fausto Dell'Erede, who runs a produce-delivery business, told Jordan they wanted him to have the best opportunities life had to offer, and they had always made it clear that going to university was a foregone conclusion - and he believed it. As it happens, he found particular inspiration in his Grade 12 biology class - "the human anatomy … the muscle systems and bone structures, the way things are knotted together" - and he studied hard.

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He quit "lazing around" but never quit the video games, not entirely. Between Grade 11 and the end of Grade 12, he jacked up his average from 67 to 87 per cent. It got him to U of T, his first choice of university, where he is now working towards a bachelor of physical education-health and a bachelor of education. Boys do need a boost, he says. There's a growing realization "that you need to hit the books as well as the field … but I've witnessed it, too many guys still think in terms of smart as sissy and kind-hearted, not macho.

Dell'Erede considers himself lucky to have like-minded male friends, "high achievers" he calls them, who plan to become doctors, engineers, a politician and an artist. Male teachers, however, also made a difference as mentors, he said. They wield a certain control over the class. Dell'Erede says, noting that the boys at Parkdale, with its relatively high male teacher count, earned more academic awards than girls the year he graduated.

And he knows what it feels like to be a male role model. For three summers he has coached a sports program for kids at a local community centre, and found it, he says, "gratifying.

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