Academic Selves-Mary Pipher

Mary Pipher's main intent in this article is to show their is inequality between genders in the classroom. She says that boys tend to be seen as role models, receive the teachers attention, and speak up in class more than girls. "Junior high is when girls begin to fade academically." I personally do not believe any of this boys do better than girls in school. It is the opposite in school these days. Boys tend to do worse than girls in school and girls seem to mature and want to learn, quicker than boys do. Maybe education was like this in the past, but surely it is nothing like this now. She says that boys are likely to be praised for academics and girls are likely to be praised for their clothing. I really don't know where she is getting all of these facts, but in my educational experiences, it was nothing like this. Girls in the classroom are the one's who usually paid the most attention in class and the teachers would acknowledge that by handing out awards; which were mainy received by the females. This article was an interesting opinion, but not one that I would agree with and fight for.