In the essay, “How schools shortchange boys,” by Gerry Garibaldi, I agree on boys tuning out in a “newly feminized classroom.” Girls may out number boys in graduating from high school with a diploma, but boys give up on school, because they don’t want to be like girls. “Girls are calm and pleasant,” while boys are aggressive and are rationalists. Since girls just do what they are told and write what they need to, for example a project. While girls turn in their assignment days in advance, boys demand when they were given the assignment and act in a disruptive manner. A female teacher might take this as being disrespectful. The disapproval of a female teacher “has a powerful effect on male psyche.” Males squirm from the disapproval when they…
The gap is sometimes small, but over time slight advantages accumulate into big ones.” Girls are most likely to succeed in schools over boys. Many say this is because our educational system has become over feminized. Meaning, many teachers are more sympathetic to girls because they are quite and sit still for hours on end. Where many boys are asked to sit patiently for hours on end in classroom environments where boys struggle to…
Off the top of my head, one movie that had a impact on me was Boyz-In-Da-Hood. The film was about a young man who had made an agreement with his mom...that if he kept getting in trouble he had to go live with his dad. Upon living with his father, he was exposed to things he didn't see living with his mother. His father was quite the intelligent man, and was able to keep him out of trouble. Some of the lessons his father taught him stuck with me to this day about how to be leader, He spoke on Gentrification in a clip in the film. Towards the end of the film, The young man was walking to the store with his friend and his friend was killed. At this point he was given a crucial fork in the road and had a very difficult decision to make. Rather…
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.…
Boyhood showcases physical, cognitive, social, and family development (both normative and non-normative) through the life span. Following a young boy, Mason, and his family through hardship and prosperity, Boyhood brings to life the challenges and opportunities of growing up.…
"On Boy Trouble"� Essay In the essay, "On Boy Trouble"� by Margaret Wente, many points were introduced to the readers. Margaret Wente lures the readers to her article by using an opening sentence such as "They are tormented by unattainable ideals,"� (pg. 427). Wente attracts the readers by exercising her writing abilities and using effective and efficient words and phrases. Also, the use of allusions are very effective. Margaret Wente's charismatic style of writing is very helpful to the readers in a way that differs from most other writers. With Wente's style of writing, the reader does not get bored or sidetracked while reading her craftsmanship. Margaret Wente opens up about her research on the male society. She proves a somewhat non-biassed point about what type of torture and anguish most adolescent males go through in order to "fit in"�. Wente expresses her points in a very effective manner by issuing facts, and examples, that seduces the reader into reading more. This is a magnificent piece of writing and is easy to read. One who is not very eager to pick up a highly intellectual piece of writing because of being in fear of becoming lost or confused while reading, should not worry about this piece. Wente does not use too many "big"� words in her essay, but does include some very effective ones. The article, "On Boy Trouble"� by Margaret Wente is a highly educational piece of writing, that tests the brain power of the reader, but does not stress it.…
In an article called Malibu Local’s Only: “Boys will be Boys”, Brian Ludeke successfully argues how MLO qualifies as gang explaining multiple factors as to why it should be established as a criminal street gang. The California Penal Code 186.22, defines a criminal street gang as, “an ongoing organization of 3 or more persons, with a common name, or identifying mark or symbol, having as one of its primary activities the commission of the crimes listed and whose members individually or collectively engage in criminal activity (Trial Brief, 2006). MLO possesses many of the elements listed within the document that constitutes gang activity such as its organization, common name, primary purpose, pattern of gang activity, crimes, and membership…
Weaver-Hightower , M. (2003). The "Boy Turn" in Research on Gender and Education. Review of Educational Research. Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 471-498…
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.…
Sexism is another stereotype that is created in the classroom that can have social and academic effects on individuals. Research shows that an oppressive classroom environment impairs learning and academic performance for students oppressed with identities (Pitman, 2010). Sexism in education occurs at an early age. While children of both sexes typically play together, as they get older they spend less and less time playing with children of the opposite sex. When students are lined up according to gender, teachers are stating that boys and girls should be treated differently. When different behaviors are acceptable for boys and not girls because boys will be boys, schools and administrators continue the oppression of girls. Teachers tend to associate girls as being feminine and are praised for being calm, neat, and quiet, whereas boys are encouraged to be self-thinkers, participate, and speak up. By the time students have completed 12 years of schooling, the achievement gap has widened. Females, who generally outperformed the males in their early school years, now trail on all subsections of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the American College Testing Program Examination (ACT), with the greatest discrepancies surfacing in the math and science areas (Dauber,…
In “The Demise of Guys” by Philip Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan published on Psychology Today in 2012, it is described how many men fail to live up to the norms of society. According to the article, these men are expected to be a fully functioning part of communities, yet society does not give the required support. As a consequence of that, they are somewhat isolated from education and social interaction, which might lead to a lack of ability to interact socially, and could also mean that they don’t mature equally to those with social relations. These guys end up not socializing with women and are drawn to the opportunities of the Internet. They watch TV, porn, or get involved in computer games and its communities, and will with this alternative…
Society and stereotypes affect the way children develop their ideas and, consequently it has a major effect in their futures. Opposed to that, Christina Hoff Sommers present her article “The War Against Boys” arguing that boys are facing a crisis that is directly affecting their scores in school, their propensity to violence and crime and their lack of motivation to go to college. According to her, the ones to blame are the feminist efforts to promote girls and create programs to boost their academic careers. These efforts are doing more than just improve girls’ performance in school; they are harming boys by diverting the attention from them. As a direct response to Sommers’ article, Michael Kimmel expresses his opposition with his article “A War Against Boys?” which refutes Sommers’ ideas of misguided feminism, and offers a different insight to the crisis that boys are facing. Kimmel effectively refutes Sommers’ article by offering different points of view and distinctive propositions to why boys are facing a crisis.…
Education is a potent institution used to reinforce gender differences. In our reading we found that children are much more likely to separate themselves at school in gender categories than in their neighborhoods. As Barrie Thorne points out in her book Gender Play, "Apart from age, of all the social categories of the students, gender was the most formally, and informally, highlighted in the course of each school day" (pg 34). I feel that many experiences in elementary school have reinforced my gender outlook. I spent much of my time in elementary school racing the boys and biting my nails to show I wasn't scared to "break a nail" and never wearing a dress. Recess was a fight for me half the time. I didn't like the connotation of being called a "girl."…
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…
Based on Galley’s analysis, the lesson being deployed in these English classes was non-engaging for the boys in the classroom, and it shows. Additionally, Galley points out some facts about girls that seemed to ring true in this setting as well, “Girls … are, on average, able to read earlier and speak with better grammar. … girls are also able to hear, smell, and feel tactile sensations better; have better overall verbal abilities…” (Galley, 2003). These attributes, too, were evident in the girls’ participation in the reading, writing, and discussion portions of the class. When the teacher asked a question to the class or verbally read a part of the text, the girls would quickly articulate an answer or response. Consequently, Galley’s examinations seem to explain both the lack of verbal communication by boys when surrounded by girls in non-academic settings, as well as, the polling results of a majority of boys disliking English-Language Arts the most out of all the other…