Gender Roles - Blog Four

Today I read an article about gender roles. This article was very eye opening and was about something I had never thought of before. More schools want dads to be role models. They want dads to be more proactive at elementary schools and come and help with parties and eat lunch with their kinds and even have their photos posted on the walls. Usually when we think about theses things you always think of the moms not the dads. Normally, you see moms volunteer to help with school activities, parties, events, or just helping the teacher. Not very often do you see dads helping out. Many schools want changes and want dads to start being role models for their kids. A school that is very eager to welcome dads to their school is Anoka School. In Minnesota this school is one out of five and 1,000 in 32 states that participate in this program. They have created a name for this, which is Watch DOGS, which stands for (Dads Of Great Students). What the dads do is they take a day off a day of work and spend the day with their children at school and help out the teachers. At a lot of elementary schools the majority of the staff are women. At one school all of the classroom teachers are women except for 21 classrooms. This may just create a huge change in schools. When people think about volunteers at school immediately people think moms. Elementary schools are wanting dads to be role models too and maybe that may have a positive effect on the students.

The Article...

http://www.startribune.com/local/south/38783792.html?elr=KArksUUUU