Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Gender and Education

UNICEF

UNICEF works for the equality of every student that is out there, and to bring about essential changes in their lifestyles that are necessary to achieve social justice and equality for everyone that is a part of it.

I found these bullets very interesting:
  • Male students receive more of the teacher's attention (acceptance, praise, criticism, and remediation) and are given more time to talk in class from pre-school through college.8
  • Although differences among subject matter areas have not been well examined, recent research has found student-teacher interaction in science classes to be biased toward boys.9
  • Sex is a factor in the assignment of students to ability groups in mathematics, and males are more likely to be assigned to the high ability group.10
  • Males receive harsher punishment than girls even for the same or a similar offense.11
  • Teachers ask boys more higher order questions than they ask girls.12
I believe that a lot of people still do find women inferior to men, and that male students are often looked at being the smartest or are able to answer questions better then a women. There has been studies that show that if a male and female have their hands raised 9 out of 10 times the male is the one to be called on.

The fourth point is also very true, if a male is to do something wrong in a classroom setting it is almost always that a girl could have "gotten away" with it. Everyone has had these experiences before and it's terrible. Everyone should be treated equally and fair no matter what gender they are.



I think that this movie is terrible, saying how we shouldn't allow gay marriage because then kids would have to be taught about it in schools. That is like telling that that there is something wrong with being gay and that there is nothing right about it, it's making the whole general idea invisible. At a young age they should be taught about how to accept people that might be different from them, not to make it absent from their lives.



Watching this video literally gave me goosebumps. It is terrible that children can not go to school and feel safe or cared about, but even more terrible that some teachers have witnessed the acts of cruelty and just stood by and watched. If a student can not feel safe at school to the point where they kill themselves then something needs to be looked at and action needs to be taken. I think the worst part of this movie for me is that Megan was bullied by the myspace account of a MOTHER of a student in her class that lead to her killing herself. What kind of monster could do that to a poor kid. Under title XI all of these students could have sued saying that they were being forced to be in a hostile climate that was affecting their learning and safety, maybe then someone would have listened.

No comments:

Post a Comment