Analysis Of The Gender Gap At School

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It’s Not Their Gender
Do humans let their gender define their capability to learn? In the “The Gender Gap at School,” David Brooks talks about how “Male reading rates are falling three times as fast as among young women’s” (Brooks 391), because teachers are not providing equal reading interest in both genders. However, gender does not play a role in males capability to succeed in their education for reading. “The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognizing how we are” (Adichie).
All children are made differently, but the gender does not play a role in how well they do in school. For example, “upon entering school, girls perform equal to or better than boys on nearly every measure of achievement, but …show more content…

It just turns many of them into high school and college dropouts who hate reading” (Brooks 392). Here is an example of slippery slope, the author is predicting males drop out due to hating reading. This last statement makes the manuscript undependable because there are more relevant reasons males drop out.
For some students, dropping out is the culmination of years academic hurdles, missteps, and wrong turns. For others, the decision to drop out is a response to conflicting life pressures -- the need to help support their family financially or the demands of caring for siblings or their own child. Dropping out is sometimes about students being bored and seeing no connection between academic life and "real" life (Furger).
The argument David Brooks delivers about the gender gap at school regarding males reading comprehension is irrelevant. As students beginning their education they need to be able to create their own study set, regardless of the material. Despite, "what field males are interested in, they will have to read. And the better they can read, the easier it will be for them to learn new subject matter and to effectively communicate their knowledge"

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