Segregation In Public Schools

When a person imagines that there is segregation taking place in public schools whether in classrooms or throughout the entire campus, it can be imagined that this segregation is something that is negative similar to the views of the author Michael Kimmel. This negative connotation to segregation in education systems come from the deep rooted American history of African Americans and Caucasians not being allowed to attend classes together through the public school system. However the author, Michael Gilbert wants for parents across America to know that these gender separated classrooms are nothing to fear. Though it is obvious that the two do not agree on the idea of segregated schools, they also have some very different underlying views and
He continues on to argue that schools are not paying attention to the fact that males and females that are school aged do not learn the same as stated in paragraph number three of his article where he states that “There's a problem when you bleach out gender differences: boys and girls are not the same. They do not develop in the same way or at the same time” (Gilbert, Single-sex). Toward the end of his article, he also goes on to say that schools that practice single-sex classroom education often times have higher test grade averages as well as grade point averages. In this article, it becomes clear that Gilbert’s main concerns are of the education of male students in
For instance, in both articles there is at least one paragraph that talks about gendered stereotyping. The interesting thing about these to articles using similar terms however, is that they seem to use the terms differently. As an example, a reading of the articles can look at their ideas of “sex-stereotyping”. In the article written by Gilbert, it seems that he views sex-stereotypes as the way that children are being expected to learn and retain information. He explains that things are not being taught in a way that would make sense to both genders separately and that single-sex classrooms can fix that problem. However, he later goes on to say that the students that are most benefitted from single-sex classroom education are those who are female or of a minority group which seemingly contradicts a bit of his arguments that say that these higher grades are shown strictly because of the separation of sexes, not race. Kimmel’s definition of sex-stereotype seems to follow along closer to the definition given by most sources that offer the definition. All similarly state that a sex-stereotype is aimed toward women with the belief that they are inferior in things such as education in maths or sciences and that men are superior in this as well as other areas of life. However, the both author’s articles seem to focus on only one area specifically. Kimmel’s being sex