Becoming Regendered

The fifth classroom was stationed at Preschool B, a preschool regulated by a Catholic church in the same city as Preschool A. The children that went to Preschool B were children of young employed specialists, many of whom lived in the area of the preschool. These kids attended preschool "full-time "- five days a week for most of the day. (Martin, 1998).
             The set of courses and repetitive schedule of the two preschools were alike with two exclusions. The first difference was more religious teachings in Preschool B, even though many of the students were not Catholic. Preschool B demanded the kids to pray before eating, and the kids' events were concentrated more on the religious portions of Christian holidays than did the events of children in Preschool A. The other difference concerning the two preschools is that Preschool B has some precise guidelines that prohibited brutal actions at school. (Martin, 1998).
             An overall number of 112 children and 14 teachers (five teachers and nine teachers' assistants) were watched in these five classrooms. All of the teachers were female. Fifty-eight percent of the students were boys and forty-two percent were girls, and they had comparable ratios in each classroom. There were three Latin children, four African American children, twelve Asian American children, and the remaining children were White. Most of the children came from middle-class homes. (Martin, 1998).
             Karin and her study assistant monitored those classrooms approximately about three times a week for eight months. Their monitoring was as discreet as probable, and they intermingled modestly with the children, even though from time to time a child would ask what they were doing or "write " their own "notes " while sitting next to them.