sex roles

Are boys and girls treated differently by the teacher in classroom situations? This is a question that has frustrated many psychologists and educators. In many cases, I think gender does play a significant role in the education process. Teachers may unconsciously give more attention to the boys in a classroom. Peggy Orenstein proved this in her essay, "Learning Silence: Scenes from the Class Struggle," in which she did field research in junior high schools interviewing …

…school. She is very smart and confident when she is around other girls but when she begins to interact with boys, her face turns as red as a cherry. She loses all powers of speech and her self-esteem flies right out the window. When it comes time to journey out on there own, the coed students will be better equipped than the single-sex school students will. There is no world of single-sex people out there.