Department of Education that show that girls outshine boys in reading, writing, science, math, and have a lot higher educational aspirations. She also gives us data that shows that girls are starting to beat boys in enrolling in college, and that girls are more engaged in academically then boys. She implies that all of this has been happening because the educational doesn’t “favor” boys over girls anymore. I agree with that statement, but I also don’t think that the educational should let boys be “left behind” either. Yes, boys are bad at school; I can say this because I’m a boy and I see everything first hand, my peers are less and less interested in school and college, they often talk about just either dropping out of high school and getting a job, graduating and just work and not go to college or simply join the military.
Dear Principal, Would it be fair if an A student, were to receive the same grade as, a D student? If you were to change the grading policy this would make parents and students frustrated. The grading policy should not be changed because students would not know their exact grades, their GPA, and high performers would earn the same grade as low performers. I don’t agree that you should consider a new grading policy that replaces letter or number grades because it will not benefit the school community. The first reason the grading policy should not be changed is students/parents would not know their exact grade.
This therefore means that since their distraction and hyperactivity levels are suppressed, they can function well and execute tasks as well as the average non-ADHD student. However, when non-ADHD students pervade the system, the state of equality is compromised. This provides non-ADHD Adderall consumers a continued advantage over the ADHD students. These essentially still have a better shot at thriving better and outperforming the ADHD. This deliberate use of Adderall to gain better grades puts ADHD students at a further disadvantage because there is no other means by which the field could be leveled once more.
Not every parent has the financial Stability to send their kids to schools with great education programs, as shown in waiting for Superman. So why should the innocent children be the ones being punished for something they Have no control over? By having more well educated people in the world it will make the environment a better place. The future needs to be thought about while changes and problems are being addressed. The school board and the people within the school systems need to have more caring feelings about those students who are being left behind.
Education, social, and gender equality can all help support a better functioning society. All students deserve to have an equal opportunity to learn in school no matter their gender, social class, or ethnicity, but unfortunately it is not always that way. Due to these personal characteristics some students have a better chance of school than others. For example, talented students with a lower income stability does not get to follow the paths of their peers with a higher income stability. Because of that it excludes those capable students of attending college and sometimes allows “not so bright students” to attend because these days society speaks money, not equality.
This approach could be classed as too deterministic. It makes an assumption that students will automatically embrace the values taught in school. In reality some students will and some won’t. Also the values taught are ethnocentric and pupils from different cultures often reject and rebel against this. A functionalist view could also be criticised by suggesting all pupils are not offered an equal chance to succeed, and therefore education is not meritocratic.
A new study has found that girls at same-sex schools feel greater pressure to adhere to gender norms — and were bullied if they didn’t — than those at mixed-gender schools. Perhaps even more surprising, the same researchers say that girls at same-sex schools evaluated their self-worth based more on social confidence than cognitive confidence — while girls at mixed-gender schools weighed academics more heavily than social prowess. These results contradict a lot of the conventional wisdom that compels some parents to seek out an environment without boys — namely, less romantic drama, greater social acceptance and increased academic confidence. So which one is it? : Are girls more likely to empower one another or to make Burn Book–worthy comments about those who don’t fit in like in Mean Girls?
Mixed Schools are Better! schools are considered the second social setting in which children learn and acquire cultural concepts and life skills. This, in turn, depends on many factors but highly on the type of the schools children learning at. Actually, some schools are separate which do not allow the two sexes to study altogether for traditional or religious reasons. On the other hand, there are mixed schools that accept both sexes considering the separation between them an obstacle in the way of social development.
If a male participates in the same deviant acts regarded to sex as the female he is more likely to get a pass in some situations unlike the girl. They are not given the same space, supplies, and privileges as males, do to this and other circumstances I do feel like females are treated more unfairly then males are. I think in some way the justice system expects more from females then males so therefore that is not equal treatment. Research has proven in order to decrease juvenile delinquency the children must have secure, solid, strong, and steady environments at home and at school. Delinquency will never fully go away but it can be prevented if they have the right support and the right people in their lives to show and teach them the correct
Rather than focusing on more imperative and valuable affairs such as academic activities, students as of current prefer to accomplish other matters of trivial significance. In many cases, students attribute their poor performance in school to lack of studying rather than pinpointing the lack of intelligence; on other hand, if they perform well, students assume to possessing an exceptional ability because they can perform well without studying (Urdan, 2004). Accordingly, a myriad of research has aimed focus on gender differences in various areas of intellectual achievement (Halpern, 2012; Ang, 2014). As a result, such research paves way in the conduct of policy decisions such as financing sex-segregated education (Lindberg, Hyde, Petersen, & Linn, 2010; Ang, 2014). Learned helplessness has been defined by Vasta, Haith and Miller (1995) as a feeling of incompetence and lack of ability that accumulate from often episodes of failure experience.