Stereotypes In The Classroom

Stereotypes have a big affect on society today from young to old they affect everyone. However though we are talking about Dinuba Students, on how stereotypes affect them and everyone around them on campus. Being stereotyped in high school is tough it’s like bullying or judging others on what you think about them.

Some common stereotypes I have heard include women are bad drivers, are not good at math, and love shopping. Of these three stereotypes, I think the first two can do the most harm. After all, if someone is being told they will be a bad driver or that they will not do well in math, I think they are likely to not try as hard or subconsciously worry and not do as well. The third stereotype is mainly harmless, though it is annoying when someone simply assumes it is true. No two people are alike. However, there are those who I relate to easier because of similar hobbies, shared beliefs, and similar life experiences. Whenever I meet or interact with those who are notably different than me I am generally open minded. However, when deciding if I want to become friends with someone I usually take several factors into consideration; some of which

As a young child I learned what the good group of kids looked like and what the bad group of kids looked like. In movies, the bad group of people are portrayed in high school as boys who wear really big clothing and girls that wear too dark of makeup. However after my junior year, I now know that you never really can tell between who the good and the bad people really are. Starting from when I was very young, my brother began changing my entire life for the better because I grew up with him in and out of jails and prisons for theft, drug use, and underage consumption. During his time in jails and prisons, it killed my mother and father. However for me, I never really knew the person labeled as my brother. He was a shadow with a name for me.

From third grade until my first year of high school I attended a private school. Trinity Christian school, a predominantly protestant school, (while still accepting of catholics and other denominations of christianity) also was attended by a vast majority of white students. There were, however, multiple people of color in my class that I made friends with: A Filipino kid by the name of Joven, and two African American kids, Deantre and Cortez. They were very nice people, and I’m glad to have met them. They were smart, compassionate, and funny in their own ways. They were my starting exposure to people of color, and I’m glad I met such good people. I had only experienced stereotypes and racism through the news and the internet at my relatively young age, never experienced them first hand.

Have you ever heard any jokes at school that have to do with someone’s race? Apparently, these stereotype jokes occur quite often. It might be just a “joke,” but sometimes it becomes more than just that.

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

The past 720 days of high school and 2,340 days of school all together seems like a lot but boy has time flown. And here we are gathered hoping that we didn’t screw up again and can actually graduate. Some of us will graduate today, next week, next month even but i’m proud that I get to graduate with this class, the class of 2017. I have known some of you since maddux, most at nagel but we really came together once highschool started. Tate Sheppard and I became best friends after I punched her in the face for cutting in line in the fifth grade, I don’t regret that decision. Natalie Gould and I became friends in seventh grade from our guitar class and five years down the road she is still my best friend. No matter what scenario I run into, I can always count on this class to be there.

The academic subjects I excel in are history, mathematics, science, and Spanish. It is a typical stereotype that since I am an Asian American, I love equations and numbers. I happen to fall under this phrase because ever since I was a little kid, I loved numbers. To my current day, I have a keen sense of how math and science are used in life just as any other subject. I found out that I am a deductive and inductive reasonable person because I learned it in my Theory of Knowledge class dealing with various subjects. It is interesting how long ago in time philosophers such as Newton or Pythagoras came up with ideas and shapes that are similar to our reality for instance, something a simple as paying for groceries at the daily supermarket or even

Negatively Stereotyping others is a substantially serious social issue in todays society. There are various different underlining issues like hate crimes, bullying, suicides and deaths that compose the severity of it alarming in todays society. Countless people stereotype without acknowledging the effects. As shown throughout their actions and behaviors, even their children begin to obtain the same attributes and judgmental state of minds as their parents. In reality, todays society most likely doesn't stop an consider the cause and affect. While others on the opposite side of this situation might suffer detrimental effects. Field studies shown on children who were bullied, were more than likely to have long term psychological issues through

“Hurry up everybody.” “Climb into your seats.” “I hear her pounding footsteps.” “She’s almost here!”

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.

I can bet my last dollar that when the ultrasound worker announced, “look like a boy!” you ran out and bought the cutest blue Onesie. Don’t feel bad you are not alone. It is extremely impossible for any parent to separate what society says gender is versus what the child’s real identity is. I think it is totally ok for boys to play with dolls like his sister or for girls to play with trucks just like her brother. As a director of a preschool, I allow my students to play with whatever they want. I have been asked multiples times, “is gender learned?” I simply tell them all children are individuals. They grow into who they are. If I stop this little girl from playing with the blocks I can be putting a hold on the next great architect. We never know who we are raising/teaching.

School has always treated both sexes the same; a different approach should be taken when teaching boys in class. Boys think and act differently when compared with girls, so why treat them the same? During High School the phase of puberty begins with most boys. This is when you see them turn into men. Everyone knows that they grow larger and more muscular, but many don’t understand what’s going on in the developing males mind. A rush of testosterone is produced in the body that changes the way they act; this rush of testosterone often brings along aggressive behavior with it. Teachers often discipline males into believing that their actions during this phase are improper; but I disagree.

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

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