School Girls by: Peggy Orenstein

Premise:

• women vs. men
• unequal
• dominance
• hidden curriculum
• male dominance

Author's Argument:

Orenstein argues that we need to have a gender fair curriculum in the public school. If there is gender equality in the curriculum than girls and boys will both enjoy the learning experience. There is only a male dominance curriculum.

Evidence:

1. " it is a mirror opposite of most classrooms that girls will enter, which are adorned with masculine role models, with male heroes, with books by and about men classrooms which the female self is, at the best an afterthought."
2. "because I include a project based on women, I'm seen as extreme."
3. " if I took those lesson's that concentrated only on men's experience for a whole year, that would be normal."

Comments:

I think that what Ms. Logan is doing is great and more teacher should do what she does. If teachers made the class do a project solely on men and one on women the classroom would seem fair and equal for all the students. If they only focused on men little girls would be discouraged and would not have a role model.

I think that Ms. Logan should not only fill her walls with women role models, I think she should put males and females on her wall and I believe that the children would enjoy this. She should mix them around her classroom.