Stereotypes Affecting The Value Of Education

The typical school classroom conjures up images of boys and girls coexisting, raising their hands in equal numbers. However, that’s not always the case. According to 2010 data from NCES and the U.S. Census Bureau, from prekindergarten to senior year of high school, male students outnumber female students significantly in public school classrooms: 54 percent to 46 percent in pre-K and 51 percent to 49 percent from first grade to 12th grade.So with the disproportionate stats in the American classroom, is it beneficial to separate the genders from each other? Much debate has centered around this topic for years.

In helping to minimize students being in the hallways, skipping, and missed instructional time, please accept all students into your classroom who are late and mark them tardy. If a student is more than half the period late, and you feel they were skipping please write a referral. Please do not lock students out of your class or send them to SAO for a pass, unless we are having a Tardy Sweep. This will help to minimize students being in the hallways and skipping. We do address tardies with students on a regular basis. Thanks for your understanding and support regarding this matter.

To a young me, the world was black-and-white. The virtuous will remain good while the immoral will stay wicked, no shade of grey existing. The notion that humans can change their nature was ludicrous. Living in a society where sorting human beings into stereotypes is the norm only served to reinforce that idea. One day, though, the action someone who should stand for justice forced my eyes opened.

Over the past couple of decades’ girls have begun to surpass boys in academics. Girls have higher high school and college graduation rates, enrollment in Advance Placement (AP) classes, selected for valedictorians and salutatorians, and there are more female applicants being accepted to professional programs, such as physicians and surgeons and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Throughout history, men had access to better education than women. The educating of women was deemed unnecessary by parents, elders, educators, and other members of the community. The traditional role for women consisted of homemaking and child rearing, neither required any type of formal education. Clearly, skills to support these traditional roles were important and often acquired from the more senior women of the extended family and the

Although one may argue that male students are distracted by female clothing in the classroom, this stereotype is inaccurate. The assumption that is being made when the rules are in place is that if girls are not covered, the learning of male students is at risk since they are not mature enough to control themselves in a learning environment. Ask guys around school and chances are, they do not think that the shoulders of the girl sitting in front of him distract from his learning. If the answer is yes, then they should be taught to not sexualize girls in that manor. Girls are not sexual objects and are not there for the pleasure of a guy. Eliana Dockterman in her article "Schools Are Still Slut-Shaming Girls While Enforcing Dress Code" insinuates

I see Purple! Western Illinois University(WIU), is a public college in Macomb, Illinois, and is about one hour away from Virginia, Illinois. Western also has Quad cities in Moline, Illinois for a smaller schooling experience. Macomb holds the main campus and has a population of 18,352. The city is an average size college town, with great transportation. Western has a bus transportation system that can take you anywhere in Macomb. The busses are also free to all WIU students, Macomb has bus stops all around the city making transportation easier for first year students who don't have cars(Western Illinois University,2017).

In a classroom with grey-blue carpet and starch white walls, my 3rd grade class and I sat nervously gripping our pencils. From my seat, the small American flag blocked the clock, but I was positive we had been sitting in silence for hours. Our teacher migrated between pods of desks and placed thin, light grey test booklets in front of each student. I reached forward to touch the pages that felt like the glossy outside of a newspaper. Mrs. Lewis’s navy heels clicked back to the front of the room and she meticulously straightened the remaining tests in her hands. “Please keep your hands in your lap until I tell you to begin,” she said before turning around. Our hands quickly retreated into our laps. She continued, “The results are only for us

Imagine this, the teacher is going over a lesson about word parts. The teacher goes over prefixes, and suffixes. Jimmy gets tired of listening to the teacher and pulls up his computer. Everyone else in the class is listening to the lesson, but Jimmy goes on the web. The teacher notices Jimmy on the computer, but does not say a word, as he knows soon Jimmy will learn his lesson. The kids are staring at Jimmy and laughing, but the teacher gets them on task. They take a blank piece of lined paper out of their binders and start taking important notes. Jimmy decides not to care and keep on browsing the web. He looks at shoes, basketball equipment, and the football playoff scores. The kids in the class finish taking notes, but the teacher knows how to get Jimmy’s attention.

Allow me to explain something about myself I have never liked babies. In my eyes they weren’t cute they were just small wrinkly whinny humans with a self-destruct button on the top of the skulls and they grew up to be awful people. Those adorable babies become the vile beings who cut in front of you in line, who talk back to their parents, who chew with their mouths open, who talk politics at thanksgiving dinner. Despite this millions of people still want children and I never comprehended why. Do they expect their child to be the exception? Well, I’ve learned the answer is yes everyone thinks their child is the exception but they're wrong because my niece is.

In our world today we struggle with stereotypes causing many issues in our society. Some problems we encounter are Same Sex Marriage, The Black lives matter movement, feminism, Terrorism, and who is the best president for 2017. We believe that same sex marriage is not right, there is a difference in a person because the color of their skin, women have less value, and should we send US troops to fight against ISIS. These are one of the biggest problems in the world today and I believe we should start taking action now instead of waiting around for some miracle to happen. Some of these issues have been around for centuries.

When I think about New York I think of happiness. Loud, busy, fast paced, happiness. Being from New York I considered myself and everyone else in my family to be a New Yorker. According to Oxford English Dictionary being a New York refers to a person who was born or lives in New York. I was not born in New York, but I was raised there for a lot of my childhood. Plus all of my sisters and father were born there, and a lot of my extended family still live there. The state of New York has always seemed like a perfect home to me; although, a lot of outsiders do not see it as perfect.

We have done research at our school that supports the idea that many people experience stereotypes, and are affected by them. Author and Scientific Journalist, Shankar Vedantam, in his article “How a Self-Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down Performance,” Explains that If people are stereotyped, they can start to embody the stereotypes made about them without realizing it, which could lead to a degradation in their performance, because of the negative self image caused by these stereotypes. He supports this claim by giving a few real world examples of surveys and tests taken on african-americans and people of different races, all of the people who took these tests had one thing in common, they were all victims of intelligence stereotypes. He goes on to explain how these subjects performed worse on the same tests they had taken before, after being reminded of their race by the researchers giving them the test. Vedantam’s purpose in this article is to inform people of the major consequences that stereotyping can have on people’s self image, and how this can lead to their performance taking a turn for the worse, I believe that by writing this article, Vedantam was taking a serious issue in society today, and looking at it from a scientific perspective to attain more clear idea of what is causing it.

In my country, women are not important and are not placed in influential positions, thus, being there would have deprived me of getting an education that would satiate my hunger for knowledge and wisdom, the hunger to be something and help the world better itself. As a woman, I would like to be an engineer and break all stereotypes that restrict women from pursuing an education in math. I was born in Iraq, the country of war, and within that country, women are meant for childbirth and care giving. There was no chance at an education that empowered women in the math field, or a male dominant field. During the time that I lived there, which was during the American-Iraq war, an opportunity for education was even tougher to chase after due to the danger that lied within the country. Although I was an

There are around 7.5 billion living people that reside on this little blue ball we call Earth; Not to mention the 112.5 billion people that have passed, as they too lived their own lives to the fullest they knew how. Each and every one of these people have or have had family, friends, accomplishments, goals, and values. Each one of them is different. With this many people, all being brought up in vastly varied regions, with different home lives and relationships, with only having what’s around them to base themselves on, it’s no wonder we don’t all get along. We all have our own beliefs, whether it be through religion, lessons passed down from generationally, or personal values, it’d be impossible for all of us to come together for anything.

The world has always ranked lifestyles. what do I mean by this you may ask. Well ,since the beginning of time the world has never been starved of leaders, because frankly everyone wants to be in control. Most leaders we have start from a very young age. however, other human beings always have to put others down whether its emotionally, logically, or physically. The world isn’t improving because we are constantly ranking our leaders and followers under the labels ; rich, poor, and average. These labels have an extremely high power over people.