Stereotypes In High School

Every time that I muster up the courage to exercise it is like every part of my body bounces, like dropping a tennis ball from a fifteen story window and waiting for it to settle. My mind screams “Work harder! Obtain your goals!” while my body lags behind whining about wanting to sit on the comfortable couch at home. Unfortunately I have never been able to match those two up. The first time that I had questioned my size was in the first grade when your teacher makes you line up by height and not by name. I was easily the tallest kid in my class, towering over the little boys and girls with both my height and my stature. I remember looking back behind me and seeing all of the other kids judgmental eyes glaring at me and in my mind

and anger was building up. Deep down all knowing I recall this as my first experience with

As I have grown up, I have developed strong beliefs/opinions on the five following issues that may differ from my peers. Race, social class, gender, religion, and sexual orientation all have different conflicts and stereotypes in today’s society, and they are all very important. However, I don’t think the my statements on those issues are important in society. Yes, they are important to me because they make up who I am. But they have little effect on those around me, because as I’ve gotten older I’ve also learned that whether people differ from me or not, I should show them love, and respect, and treat them as I would treat anyone who has the same beliefs or appearance as myself. As I have gotten older and decided where I stand on these issues,

For over 20 years, instructors and people are confronting an issue that youths whose people stop their vehicle in the point of convergence of the stopping region and send their children over the stopping territory towards the play zone since they are getting late to work. Since this happens not in an allocated carport but instead in the school stopping zone, there is the extra hazard of drivers leaving the parking structure not ready to see the children who may be walking around the part. Regulations have a little effect, as the instructor on the field confronts numerous issues and it is troublesome for teacher to control. Likewise an issue of speedy solace much of the time overrides the subject of

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.

Imagine you were told by society that because you are a female, you are not able to perform as well as a male profile. How would this affect your mentality? Stereotypes like this one can negatively affect one's performance. Although many students at VCIS felt negatively stereotyped at some point. Most students hold a growth mindset and don’t let the negative stereotype affect their performance in school.

Stereotyping. It exists, whether you want it to, or not. You can see it virtually anywhere. In public, in school, at home, even in other countries. However, it is very evident here in America, especially in school.

The participants in this research project are the number of students in my first grade classroom, as well as myself who is the teacher and action researcher, participant. The gender and ethnicity will be incorporated in the demographics of the participants. Additionally, the makeup of my classroom participants’ percentages, participating in free or reduced lunch will be identified. Finally, the demographic percentages of the students who are repeaters, % of students who have an IEP (Individual Education Plan), and the % of students who participate in PGA(Primary Grade Academy- participate in a pullout Reading Recovery Program- due to low test scores.) Furthermore, the demographics of the whole school will be recorded and will incorporate all of the categories above to show the representation comparative to my classroom.

Imagine. You are recently retired and going home after a long day of shopping. You get on the bus and look for an unoccupied seat. There are none, but the closest to you is a girl and a boy next to her who is playing music loudly through dark headphones. You think about this girl if she could give up her seat to you, but you hesitate due to the excessive use of dark colours these young people are sporting. The girl looks up at you and immediately rushes to remove her person from the seat to let you sit. You cautiously take the seat next to the boy who looks up at you revealing two thick black rings in his lip. He smiles and so does the girl. You thank both of them quietly, unsure about their friendliness. Do you still act upon your misjudgments?

Over the course of history, humans have developed presumptions of people from different kinds of backgrounds. This is what is called a stereotype, which is defined as “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing” (Dictionary.Com). Stereotypes in of themselves are not necessarily wrong, as they give a general description of a type of person. However, stereotypes become apparent when people act upon them and assume that they are for certain. One may ask, how have people come to formulate these presumptions of a group of people? That answer lies in the media. People put their own personal biases in the media they create, which in turn impacts the younger generation and the mindsets they develop.

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 twenty-first century, our society already develops into an advanced technology level. However, somebody’s thoughts are not highly enough. Ideology leads different phenomenon to the society. Some phenomena are negative, and some are circumscribed. Such as: formalism, postmodernism, and stereotypes. Stereotype is a classic circumscribed ideology. Stereotype is a thought may or may not accurately reflect reality, be adopted for specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things. This perspective came from one specific example; some special habits of a group can make others think it is the group habit. When a police officer chat with an elder, a kid tells the officer: “Your dad is arguing with my dad!” the elder wonders whom the

Everyone has some sort of prejudice whether that’s towards a person or a group of people, and this prejudice could be in the form of a stereotype. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary a stereotype is, “something conforming to a fixed or general pattern; especially : a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment." There are so many stereotypes about different types of people. Most stereotypes have to do with a person’s race and ethnicity, but there are stereotypes for many other reasons. Some stereotypes that aren’t about race or ethnicity include things like blonde people are less intelligent, or people with glasses

Ah, the dreaded report card: letters and numbers in a list; these lines of ink on paper or pixels on computer screens can cause chaos in the minds of students. Grades, as marks earned for completion, have the power to change the future of a student and wreak havoc in their minds. Yet the biggest impact can come when students discuss amongst themselves their grades, and those of others, which creates a system of stereotypes in high schools.

Among the greatest examples of stereotype inequality are women’s rights and racism, however, recent history has both made light of the situations and has drastically ameliorated them. Consequently, stereotypes are gradually slipping out of the view of the general public. However, is it safe to assume that stereotypes are no longer a major problem? Furthermore, how is our high school youth affected by stereotyping? While some may say that this matter is no longer a major issue, it seems quite the contrary.