According to the National Education Association,” boys are five times more likely than girls to be classified as hyperactive and are thirty percent more likely to flunk or drop out of school( ).”America’s sons are in trouble, today people tend to blame the parents for not disciplining their children when they need too, when in fact it is the educational system giving them the short end of the stick. Classrooms today are biased against boys and gives the young girls the better learning environment; teaching in ways that’s easier for the girls to comprehend. In elementary classrooms today boys have few male role models. Today most of the teachers are woman. “Seventy-six percent of public school teachers are female, compared to the fourteen
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With woman educators singling out boys when they act out because, simply they are just afraid of them, so sending them to the principle office is an easy way to differ their problem. But when a girl does something completely stupid, screams cuss words, spreading rumors, the teacher doesn’t send her to the office, the teacher finds other ways to connect with the girl and ends up sending them to the guidance councilors office where they blame their menstrual cycles or some other bullshit and never gets disciplined. “Boys account for seventy-one percent of all school suspensions”( ), some may have deserved the punishment, but some may have been just S.O.L (shit out of luck). Some parents laugh at their child when they come home complaining about how, “Mrs. Jones hates me, I swear she is just out to get me!” well in fact that could be true. Some teachers hold grudges against some boy students and tend to be harder on them during class. A female teacher, especially if she has no male children of her own, studies noticed, will tend to view boys’ desire for challenging classroom assignments as disruptive, disrespectful and rude. In some experiences, notes …show more content…
How much Ritalin could remain on the shelves if we created schools that are ready for boys rather than boys who are ready for schools? When boys don’t have a chance to work off their energy, they can end up acting worse. A study stated that by school age, the average boy in a classroom is more active than the girls. Additionally, most active girls don’t seem to express their energy in the unrestrained way characteristic of most boys. Instead of taking away their entire recess, teachers should choose an alternative consequence that doesn’t end up punishing their student, such as running two laps around the blacktop or picking up 10 pieces of trash before going to
With woman educators singling out boys when they act out because, simply they are just afraid of them, so sending them to the principle office is an easy way to differ their problem. But when a girl does something completely stupid, screams cuss words, spreading rumors, the teacher doesn’t send her to the office, the teacher finds other ways to connect with the girl and ends up sending them to the guidance councilors office where they blame their menstrual cycles or some other bullshit and never gets disciplined. “Boys account for seventy-one percent of all school suspensions”( ), some may have deserved the punishment, but some may have been just S.O.L (shit out of luck). Some parents laugh at their child when they come home complaining about how, “Mrs. Jones hates me, I swear she is just out to get me!” well in fact that could be true. Some teachers hold grudges against some boy students and tend to be harder on them during class. A female teacher, especially if she has no male children of her own, studies noticed, will tend to view boys’ desire for challenging classroom assignments as disruptive, disrespectful and rude. In some experiences, notes …show more content…
How much Ritalin could remain on the shelves if we created schools that are ready for boys rather than boys who are ready for schools? When boys don’t have a chance to work off their energy, they can end up acting worse. A study stated that by school age, the average boy in a classroom is more active than the girls. Additionally, most active girls don’t seem to express their energy in the unrestrained way characteristic of most boys. Instead of taking away their entire recess, teachers should choose an alternative consequence that doesn’t end up punishing their student, such as running two laps around the blacktop or picking up 10 pieces of trash before going to