Too Cool For School Summary

Our society’s perspectives on gender roles and gender identities are immensely biased affecting both males and females in workplaces, occupational choices and especially in educational institutions. This bias toward both sexes inevitably exists in our education system and our minds. Many articles, news on social media and magazines are bringing attention to male students who have begun falling behind their female peers in an academic perspective. In the article “Too Cool For School,” Edward W. Morris studies two different educational institutions. The educational institutions that were studied were made typically of white students and the other was primarily made up of African American students. Based on his observations, Morris claimed that