How would someone feel if his or her daughter had certain restrictions put on her education just because she is a girl? People do not understand how serious the need for education equality is until it affects them. All students should have the same rights in education as the students sitting in class next to them. Women should not be viewed or treated differently in education just because of their gender.
No matter what gender, any student should be able to study and pursue a career in whatever interests him or her. Mike Rose, a nationally recognized writer and educator, states in his essay “What College Can Mean to the Other America,” “that getting a decent basic education could make a significant difference in their lives” (Rose 246). An education is …show more content…
Students must strive for what they want, not what others want for them. For example, if every person in a family has become a nurse that does not mean that a student automatically has to become a nurse, too. If he or she simply is not interested in nursing, then the family should not push the student into that field. A person must truly love what he or she does, or else the career is not going to be enjoyable.
At my high school, Fieldcrest High, administration, teachers, coaches, and students agree with Jacoby’s critiquing that women are not treated equally in education. Many times, people hold incorrect beliefs that women do not belong in the fields of math or science, but these outdated views are changing. In Jacoby’s essay, “When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is ‘a Waste of Time’ Jacoby states, “many girls eliminate themselves…because of the traditional belief that math and science are ‘masculine’ subjects” (Jacoby 266). At Fieldcrest, all of the math courses are taught by women and the science teacher ratio of women to men is 2:1. This
No matter what gender, any student should be able to study and pursue a career in whatever interests him or her. Mike Rose, a nationally recognized writer and educator, states in his essay “What College Can Mean to the Other America,” “that getting a decent basic education could make a significant difference in their lives” (Rose 246). An education is …show more content…
Students must strive for what they want, not what others want for them. For example, if every person in a family has become a nurse that does not mean that a student automatically has to become a nurse, too. If he or she simply is not interested in nursing, then the family should not push the student into that field. A person must truly love what he or she does, or else the career is not going to be enjoyable.
At my high school, Fieldcrest High, administration, teachers, coaches, and students agree with Jacoby’s critiquing that women are not treated equally in education. Many times, people hold incorrect beliefs that women do not belong in the fields of math or science, but these outdated views are changing. In Jacoby’s essay, “When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is ‘a Waste of Time’ Jacoby states, “many girls eliminate themselves…because of the traditional belief that math and science are ‘masculine’ subjects” (Jacoby 266). At Fieldcrest, all of the math courses are taught by women and the science teacher ratio of women to men is 2:1. This