telling me about what it was like when he went through school 30-40 years ago. He went to school in Lubbock, TX. Back then when someone got out of hand or miss-behaved they would take that person out onto the fire escape and “paddle” them. My dad had this happen to him a few times because did some things that would get him into trouble. He said that he can’t really remember teachers favoring boys and leaving the girls out. He said that it seemed like the girls were treated differently but that they were treated special. They were able to get away with some things that the boys would have gotten in trouble for doing and would have been “paddled” for. He could only remember a few times when a girl would get in enough trouble that they would be “paddled”. I have noticed evidence of these types of lessons happening since I have been at UND. I have noticed in my math class the people that sit down towards the front of the class are mostly males. There are some females but not as many as males. The males that sit in the front of the class ask questions more often than do the females that sit in the front. They also ask more questions than the people who are sitting in the back of the class whether they are male or female. I don’t think that the teacher is trying to teach sexist lessons but I think that because of the secret sexist lessons that the students may have had in their education system that it is what they are used to so it just moves from on level to the next with out anybody noticing.Have I benefited from this type of education system? I would have to say that if I have benefited from it was in math and not science. Throughout my education I have always been pretty good at math. It’s of the courses that I have done really well in and liked. I did all right in science until high school, once I got to high school I found that I didn’t like science and I nev...
