In Amanda Chapman's article, “Gender Bias in Education,” Chapman writes that “gender socialization within our schools ensures that girls are aware that they are unequal compared to boys. Every time students are seated or lined up according to their gender, teachers claim that girls and boys should be treated differently” (Chapman 1). In the past, gender stereotypes were probably more prevalent in schools due to the old way of thinking that boys should be boys and girls should be girls. Today, gender bias in schools still exists, although not on the same scale as in the past. Girls are encouraged to become cheerleaders and boys are encouraged to pursue tough, wild sports. Another example of how some schools treat boys and girls differently is having classes separated by gender. In the article “Sexual segregation: separate but effective? from Teaching Tolerance, the article notes that “in 2002, only 11 public schools in the United States had gender-segregated classrooms. As of December 2009, there were more than 550" and that "the movement is based on the hypothesis that deep-seated differences in the way male and female brains develop and function from childhood to adolescence require classrooms in which boys and girls are not only separated by sex, but also taught in radically different ways” (Teaching Tolerance 1). One of the methods used to teach boys and girls about differences in the field