Article Review: 'Teaching Tolerance In America'

Solving High School Problems In the past few years American high school students have a significant amount of struggling. Young people’s struggles come from various sources such as school, social class, race, and gender. The article “Teaching Tolerance in America” by Dudley Erskine Devlin mentions multiple issues about high schools, and how students tend to divide up into groups. These divisions among adolescents can either cause social, race, or gender problem. Likewise, Michael Quintanilla the author of "The Great Divine" mentions the same issues how people segregate according to a person’s image, and to what race they belong to. We as a community should help solve these problems that high schools have in order to help students learn in
In this situation, Devlin states how “fifteen boys harassed this one girl verbally, mooing like cows whenever they saw her and talking about the size of her breast”. This comment was harassment towards the girl and was ignored by the school administrators and said “it’s not a big deal”. Which in my opinion how can it not be a big deal? This issue is considering a gender issue because the comment was made by boys and popular students which were not consider a gender problem. However, Devlin mentions a solution to the problem by segregating schools with their own sex. That will help reduce the differences and reduce conflicts. In my view I think that segregating schools by their own sex is not a fully considerable solution to the problem. The reason why I think that is because their can always be conflicts between their own sexes. In consider that segregating students by their own sex is a fully solution. A better solution was when Devlin mentions more protection in schools. Such as having more securities, video tapes, and students having their IDs at all times in order to detect who the trouble makers