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While surfing the web for videos and articals about gender and education in 2010 I came across this artical called Girls think they are cleverer than boys from age four, study finds

Teachers' expectations may reinforce gender gap in school performance 

This study was done in the United Kingdom  the arical was published 1 September 2010. In the artical it showed that girls do better than boys in school because of their teacher belife in them and for the boys the lack there of so by age 7 or 8 they have come to believe this. So on tests the girls profrom better as statsics show. "The findings come just over a week after exam results revealed that the gap between boys and girls at GCSE is widening. This summer, the pass rate for girls was 72.6% at A* to C, compared with 65.4% for boys. Last year, the rate was 70.5% for girls and 63.6% for boys."

But as I countued to read the artical started to talk about a expariment silmlar to that of  the doll expariment. Except this time the children were give a picture of a girl and of a boy and asked who was clever. The girls always said the girls. At age four to seven the boys were evenly devided on who was clever but by age 7 and 8 the boys would agree with there female peers that girls were clever and more susseful.

I just found this astoudning and now there encourging teachers not to use phrases like "silly boy" or "schoolboy pranks." so the boys have a more even chance.

In class I would like to discuss ways for us to keep a gender nutral classroom and how to prevent this from happing. This just goes to show that it not just race we should be worring about but about how we speak to boys and girls in general.