Sexism In Schools

According to Jean Anyon, schools in different social classes get different educations and get treated differently at school. How the children are taught will affect how they do in the future. The children who are in school now will be our leaders in the future, so we need to invest in our students. The Working Class students are taught that the process and following the rules is most important, not the answer. If we have government representatives, military leaders, and possibly presidents focusing on following the rules we will not be able to better our country. Children should be taught that they are valued and that their opinions matter, so that later in life they can continue to have confidence in their own ideas. Gaining this confidence starts in school. Anyon studied how the students are treated and taught at schools who are teaching to only one kind of social class. I believe that, most schools are a mix of at least two different social classes. In general, Affluent Professional and Executive Elite schools have students learn from thinking for themselves. On the other hand, Working Class and Middle Class students learn by the teacher thinking for the them. Most schools are a mix of these different teaching styles.

Switching classes is positive because teachers have the opportunity to focus on one subject, materials needed are less costly and each teacher has more time to plan lessons. Children will be ready, early on, to switch classes in middle school and high school. These kids will know the procedure to switch classes, rather than entering middle school and not knowing the way that they should switch classes. Switching classes also give kids responsibilities to get to a certain place, at a certain time and they will truly need to learn this responsibility for the rest of their

the students and be prejudiced. Teachers should not see social class as a problem or an excuse as to why

Education is very important. Students being able to concentrate and focus in school is very important. The problem is that we can’t meet everyone’s satisfaction. Dress code, SOL testing, and many other things are issues. One such issue is class scheduling. I believe 4x4 scheduling would be a better option for everyone.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether sexism has an effect on the lives of women in situations such as breastfeeding their child and whether or not people take offense to the sight of seeing a mother breastfeed her child. I will recruit 100 participants, 50 males, and 50 females, ranging from ages 18 to 50. I will perform my study using an experimental design where participants are shown a series of images in a video on a projector screen and they will place the images in one of two categories, with ten slots open for each category. The next part of my study will be to ask the participants in an essay question if they would continue, or be comfortable with their significant other continuing to breastfeed in public after receiving negative feedback from a stranger (See Appendix). I hypothesize that the majority of the participants will place an image of a mother breastfeeding in a public setting in a “bad deeds” category, but will place a picture of shirtless men playing football in the park in the “good deeds” category. I expect to come to the conclusion that people are more likely to take offense to the sight of a woman breastfeeding than to seeing a shirtless man.

If I were to ask you what class in the United States you were, would you want to, or be able to answer that? This is a very relevant topic put forth by Gregory Montsios in his work, Class in America. Montsios argues that the United States should either recognize class, or recognize that class is not relevant to the betterment of our great nation. He continues this argument by putting forth several myths and explanations for the way that class is seen in America. After this, he talks about different realities that are put before us, and how it affects our nation. I believe that in America today, class is not important, but can be skewed to make it to where some people have to follow different rules for different reasons, so I think class shouldn’t be recognized due to this.

Legislators, teachers and parents produce many groups in America 's society that are most interested in improving primary education. These actors recognize the importance of improving primary education to create a more stable, knowledgeable and successful society for all of the country. One highly debated issue in education reform is the student to teacher ratio in classrooms. Many parents and teachers want to see a decrease in class sizes so that students receive more individualized education and become more socially developed. Conversely, a large sum of Americans, mainly government officials, are not convinced that reducing class sizes will lead to the outcome that activists and parents are imagining. Student education at a primary level affects all of society, either directly or indirectly. America is highly concerned with education reform, and decreasing the amount of students per class in grades K through three is a logical solution to better the education provided to American students. Class size reductions cause for many positive effects such as more individualized learning, better developed social skills and a more educated youth leading to a more successful society in the future. Education reform can best be achieved through decreasing the number of students in classes, especially at the primary level.

Gender equality in schools has been a controversial issue over the years. In these two articles, "The Daily Grind: Lessons in the Hidden Curriculum" of Peggy Orenstein, and "Boys Here, Girls There: Sure, if Equality's the Goal" of Karen Stabiner, both writers give an in-depth reality into the contentious issues that exist between boys and girls. Although they bear some superficial similarities in discussing gender parity problem in education, the differences between Orenstein and Stabiner are the target audience, the rhetorical choices, and their opinion on the gender equality issue.

In 1972 congress passed the Education Acts of 1972, Public Law No. 92-318, 86 STAT. 23.J. Better known as Title IX, the law states “No person in the United States shall, on a basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any education program receiving federal funds” (Dusenbury & Lee, 2012). To interpret the law, it states the areas of federally funded education where schools must comply. These areas include any staff member that discriminates the opposite sex, any athletic programs that don’t provide equal opportunities towards both genders, and employment, such as an all-male staff is not allowed (20 U.S.C., 2012). These acts are punishable by loss of federal funding and

Even if the child is failing in any subject, the school will pass the child to the next grade level. While more focus is just being put on the standardized tests of the required subjects. So what is the child actually learning if they are being passed on the next grade level without mastering that required skilled? More standardized tests is what they are receiving and learning to do. Most of their day is filled with bubbling in answers on a standardized test until they figure out only one of them is the right answer. From the beginning of the school year to the end the children are constantly being prepped and tested for those standardized tests.(Be The Change Films, 2007) Although, this method has shown some improvement for the test scores, it only encourages children to score well on their tests, instead of teaching them the primary goal of

Students should be grouped in categories because; they learn things that they don’t know already if they are grouped by ability, second they don’t have to deal with people that have no idea about what is going on, finally students are the school year has purpose if the students are grouped by ability. My first reason for my opinion is that they learn new things they didn’t before. One example of this is in pre-algebra last year in my pre-algebra class I got a D in my algebra class; the next year I was told that i should stay in algebra because if I went back it would hurt me more than it would help. This helps to show my point because I was put in algebra because my teacher and district knew that I had the ability to be in the class and if

As a black person, an agender person, and an asexual person, one can assume that with the research that I have done into the diversity and acceptance of minorities at college campuses would be met with smiling brown faces lying down in Ivy League quads and LGBTQA+ students organizing themselves under a rainbow flag as school administration looked on. This is exactly what I have found in college viewbooks and within the little pamphlets that urge students to pay a $75 application fee in order to seize their future at a progressive campus, because “success is a choice”. But with deeper research into college life, I was met with different reports of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia in many aspect of the same college life I was being

Women all around the world are viewed as sexual objects every day of their life. Nothing has changed despite the millions of people standing up for what they believe is right. It can be seen in the media, on the streets, and even in schools in the form of a dress code. Many of the articles and researched areas tend to lean towards the side that Female objectification starts in our schools and does not end. Those who are affected by these dress codes are typically women while men are only instructed to watch the logos on their clothing. Since having such experiences with these outrageous dress codes, I understand the impact it can really have for both men and women. I have first hand

A nineteen year-old Natalie Parker is currently a student at the Paradise Valley Community College. She has followed her parents’ footsteps and is pursuing engineering as a career. She is taking high level math classes along with high level science classes. However, lately, she noticed that teachers have been questioning her ability to perform well in class because she is a girl and also mentioning that her lower test scores are probably due to the hormones in her brain. One of the teachers made a comment that engineering is not for girl and she should pursue culinary instead. Natalie does not know that she became a victim of sexism.

Imagine you are a fourth grade student. Your class is assigned into groups for a project, you get paired with the “Smart kids.” They work way too fast for you to understand anything. How do you feel in this situation. Many children are separated based off of ability in multiple school districts.. When they are separated, the courses are often different from one another. Everyone learns differently and as well at different speeds. Teachers can also benefit from grouping, they can focus more intensely with students that need extra help. Students should be sorted by ability to ensure no students will fall behind due to teaching paces and curriculum.