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Appalled Dad Stands Up For 8-Year-Old Given Sexist Assignment By Teacher
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Appalled Dad Stands Up For 8-Year-Old Given Sexist Assignment By Teacher

A careless English teacher perpetuated sexist stereotypes with a worksheet for her students — and Twitter wouldn't let it slight.


An inherently sexist assignment

What started as a simple English spelling worksheet has spiraled into a viral discussion about gender roles and sexism in our society.

It all started with a tweet from a surgeon in the United Kingdom, Robert Sutcliffe, who shared his eight-year-old daughter's homework, according to GOOD.

The worksheet was intended to highlight words with 'ur' in them — simple enough. But if you peer down to the numbered questions there is one word that stands out.

In the question, the student is tasked with finding a word that is like hospital lady, but has the letters 'ur' in it. So, the girl smartly writes surgeon. There's 'ur' in it, and as it turns out, both her mom and dad are surgeons. Simple enough.

But as you can see with the teacher's correction in red, that wasn't the word they were looking for. They were looking for nurse as the answer, which suggests that nurses are more likely to be hospital ladies than surgeons.

Trashed on Twitter

In the replies to the tweet, people called out the teacher from framing the question as sexist and said how outdated the worksheet was.

Sexism persists

It's clear that the teacher was following the answers of the textbook and didn't stop to think about the implicit sexism of the assignment. Yes, women can be nurses, but so can surgeons and urologists, which both would be correct answers.

In 1997 this type of oversight makes sense, but not now, or even when this tweet came out in 2017. Children are impressionable from a young age and it's important to encourage them to do whatever work they choose, regardless of their gender.

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