Schoolyard and gender roles

The scene is brief and went viral: two girls put the mobile to record and start dancing on a dance floor where some boys are playing with a ball, two seconds later, it hits the head of one of them and throws it down.

End. Result: countless humorous comments on the networks.

However, amid the laughter over the blow, one problem in schoolyards came to light: most of the space is dedicated to those who play soccer.

Thus, those who do not spend their recess minutes kicking a ball have to take refuge on the sides of the courts to play other things —and dodge balls—.

“This, far from making me laugh, makes me think of the little space that girls had in the schoolyards.

This, far from making me laugh, makes me think of the little space that we girls used to dye in the schoolyards.

90% of the space dedicated to being a soccer or basketball field (in my school there were 3) while the girls stayed in the areas that were safest from balls.

https://t.co/kbpuXjTX92

– Sabela (@jesucristisima) July 8, 2022

But there are people who do not seem to see the problem.

Like those who published: “Hey, it's not the fault of the poor people who play soccer that Ana María Quintana, in 2nd year of ESO, gets hit from the ball from time to time.

She let her learn to dodge”;

“If you stand next to the goal, the probability of taking a ball is multiplied by a thousand”.

It is obvious from a league that these tweeters were the ones occupying the track and if they received the impact of a ball it was because they had to be goalkeepers that day.

The debate did not stop there, @sergiodrn described the article in

as "Flippant" "Goodbye to soccer in the playground: schools reinvent themselves so that everyone can play", he did so, of course, without linking to the news, lest people read it and see that it is sensible to want boys and girls to occupy a similar space in recesses to avoid establishing inequality from childhood.

Flippant pic.twitter.com/DJ7seblKiG

– illo (@sergiodrn_) July 10, 2022

Voice actress and singer Nikki Garcia wrote: "The Nikki who used to spend her breaks sitting in a corner and had her glasses smashed in the face by a ball while trying to get to the bathroom is happy about this."

Jose Gracia (@jsegracia) also celebrated the measure with an image of the patio of his school in Burjassot (Valencia) where he showed the area dedicated to football with the warning "Do not go through there because the safest thing is that you will take a ball" and the area dedicated to other games (the margin of the soccer field).

Well, a great idea.

I am going to show you the apt of my old school and how it was distributed:

In red, soccer zone.

Do not go there because the safest thing is that you take a ball.

In blue, the rest.

You draw your own conclusions.

https://t.co/SpG1rTTUsD pic.twitter.com/cbNt0DHtRE

– Jose Gracia (@jsegracia) July 12, 2022

But the difference between boys and girls is not only in the playground.

@LaCrono__ usually tweets about situations that he experiences in his work with minors.

At the beginning of the summer holidays, she published a thread where she recounted a conflict of gender roles in the classroom.

A group of 10 children have a plant in class called Ramon.

The group decides in an assembly that Ramón has outgrown the pot and that he has to transplant it.

The teacher leaves them fifteen minutes before the playground for that task.

– Cronopia (@LaCrono__) July 9, 2022

A group of children had to transplant Ramón, the class plant.

“The favorite part is going out to the patio to look for the land.

Two of them (men) move forward”;

“In the group there are five boys and five girls”;

"There are three girls who just watch."

“At one point, all the children (boys), except one, have disappeared and only the girls are left in class.

Why?

Because Ramón is already in his new pot and now all that remains is... to clean”.

“After the patio, he spends some time commenting on the incident.

The children understand the situation, they take responsibility for their mistake.”

“What would have happened to this group without the intervention of the teacher?” he wonders.

Cronopia concludes her thread warning that it is a pattern of the tutorial action of any teacher and indicates that children "do not learn alone."

Hopefully in the course that begins these bad dynamics will not be repeated.

I hope the teachers act and educate like the teacher of the Cronopia thread.

Because educating in feminism is not gender ideology —as Vox says—, it is necessary, it is educating with social justice.