“Hidden Lessons” is an excerpt taken from Myra Sadker’s and David Sadker’s book Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls. Education is highly affected with sexism and favoritism of boys over girls. It is said that teachers and their gender bias are the main cause for most of female students’ problems. The authors share a study about evidencing those unconscious scenes of sexism which came up with expected but sad results. These behaviors were extremely elusive at plain sight yet definitely existed. Dateline, a TV show from NBC, helped spread the mentioned study and raise…
In the story “Against school: How public education cripples our kids, and why” the author, John Taylor Gatto, establishes the idea of how public education can lead to a negative impact on students. School train kids, “[to become] employees and consumers…” (Gatto 231) instead of teaching kids how to deal with certain situations that my come across in life. The story was directed to parents with kids in elementary school.…
In “Against School,” John Taylor Gatto argues that boredom is a huge part of our current education system. I agree that it is true, both teacher and students are bored in our current system where one is to give, and the other to receive an education. Learning should be much more active and responsive. Gatto took this problem and proposed an extreme solution of removing the school system all together. He continues with people in the past have come along and gone to do extraordinary things in life without an education. This is true, but Gatto doesn’t address the time period of these people. Like I said before I agree the school system is boring for both the people involved, but I don’t think we should remove it entirely. Without it we probably…
The biggest addiction that is forced upon the youth is school. In the article “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto, states the unimportance of schools and that school should be avoided. As Gatto talks about his personal experience and the concept of schooling is an absolute boredom persuades me to agree on this fact. The idea that students have to attend school without having interest to the students makes it really boring. Students learning in schools must be interested in the subjects.…
The movie Boys in the Hood takes place in Los Angeles California, and centers around a group of African American youth that grow up together in the same neighborhood. We get a glimpse into the world they live in, and the environment that many African Americans had to endure and cope with. Through the trials, tribulations, and encounters that these youths have we can see some of the social and economic problems that face many African Americans then and now. These problems and issues include drug abuse, violence, and poverty are all portrayed and acted out by these youth throughout the movie.…
It is interesting to look at the history of gender differences in education to see how it has developed in order to gain greater understanding of the current situation. Boys and girls were taught together for the first time in the 1960s, with the development of new comprehensive schools. However, opportunities were not equal for both genders in society at this time, and these values were reflected in the school environment. For…
Garibaldi has many flaws in his arguments. There is a lack of evidence that “boys will more often than not be shunted to the background in photos or be absent entirely or appear sitting on wheelchairs” (540). Author fails to provide any statistics to support his point. He uses hasty generalization to show that “a female teacher, especially if she has no male children of her own…will tend to view boys’ penchant for challenging classroom assignment as disruptive, disrespectful- rude” (537). Garibaldi conducts that more girls earned high school diplomas than boys and he utilizes percentages to show this, but actual numbers of boys and girls will likely uneven, which could lead to improper results.…
Teachers must also convey this to the boys as well, that just because a girl wants to become an engineer or a politician, being a girl does not make her less qualified. It all starts in schools and at home, parents teaching equality and not forcing gender roles onto their children. Do not show only your daughter how to do her laundry, do not only have your son do sports. At the end of the day you will get competent boys and girls who can sustain their own lives, without the necessity of another that possess certain traits. Setting role models that do not affirm gender roles, but break them.…
Weaver-Hightower , M. (2003). The "Boy Turn" in Research on Gender and Education. Review of Educational Research. Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 471-498…
Many parents, teachers, and gender reform have not been successful in rooting out male behavior they regard as harmful. For example, an “equity facilitator” tried to persuade a group of nine-year-old boys in a Baltimore public school to accept the idea of playing with baby dolls. According to one observer, “Their reaction was so hostile; the teacher had trouble keeping order (Sommers 366).” Sommers’ present’ research that asserts that the nature of men is a matter of biology, not conditioning, and schools should stop attempting to change natural gender roles in society.…
competency significantly for leadership ratings. The findings do not support the bulk of previous findings on…
Saltzman, A. (1994). "Myth or fact? Do teachers and schools favor boys to girls '…
2. How do teachers (perhaps unconsciously) communicate differential expectations to girls and boys throughout their school careers?…
According to the Deborah Tannan’s article “How Male and Female Students Participate in Class,” while men suppose it is their duty to contribute to class by speaking up, women do not think that they need to speak up like men do. Most women seem to speak up occasionally when they feel it only requires doing so. Even though a woman speaks up, then she tries to keep silent as long as possible if she feels she would be attacked. A girl communicates in a more intimate and sensitive way with a chosen, trusted one with whom she sits and talks telling secrets. In contrast, for most boys, activities are central, and their best friends are whom they do things with; they bond by exchanging playful insults and put-downs. Moreover, boys communicate in a bolder manner in a hierarchical order usually within a larger group. Tannen uses Father Walter Ong’s book “Fighting for Life”, Hamilton College professor’s classroom experience, and other colleague’s experiences as evidences to support for her claim on class room behavior. Hence, she deduces that debate-like formats as a learning tool make classroom more comfortable to most men than to women. However, I do not agree with Tannan’s representation of behavior in class because modern women not only exhibit independence, control and defiance in almost every aspect of day-to-day life, but also they are becoming successful in classroom just as their male counterparts; the biological differences such as gender have nothing to do with class, and women do speak up in classroom.…
From a young age, girls are taught how to behave and how to dress in order to not raise attention. They are taught that if a boy is mean to them or hits them, it simply means that he likes them. Boys, on the other hand, are taught to not show their emotions. They are taught that aggression is equal to manliness. They are taught that “to play like a girl” is an insult. Both boys and girls are born into a society that places limitations on them based on their gender. These ideas and values are ingrained into their minds and it is something that they are given no choice but to believe in.…