Reading Response: How the Schools Shortchange Boys

In his article, “How the Schools Shortchange Boys,” Gerry Garibaldi shows the difficulties that boys face in a school that has turned into a more feminized environment. Garibaldi uses one of his students named Brandon as an example to support his topic. He goes over why this student is in special education class and tells why the student is having difficulty due to the female teachers he has had. He also shows how the student has improved from when the teachers he has had before were not trying as hard to push him as he needed.

I think that this article was more like a story than an informative article. It had some facts but was only used as a real life example of a student’s story. It was a good article but some of the word choices I don’t think should have been used. They may be able to be used in an offensive way if taken in the wrong way. “Teachers love them.” Garibaldi says about girls, “God loves them” (Paragraph 12). The use may have been intended to be more centered to promote girls but the use of God, I think was a bad choice.

Work Cited

Garibaldi, Gerry. “How the Schools Shortchange Boys.” The Longman Reader (2010): 536-40. Print.