Even though boys tend to have more discipline problems than girls do they still maintain stronger presence in class. The discipline problems influence teachers to choose topics and use different methods of teaching that attracts the boys. However, girls are perceived as more flexible and easier to please, so they are expected to behave so that attention can focus on the boys. The boys become the primary target and challenge leaving the girls behind. This leads to the gender roles of boys being more important and girls taking a second seat behind them.
Girls learn that boys are first and more important than they are.
Boys are driven harder to achieve greater success by teachers than girls are. It has already been seen that teachers favor boys inside the classroom, but the favoritism can be seen outside the classroom as well. Many times the teachers are trying to figure out how to get the boys to succeed. Looking back to the figure of nominations it can be seen that teachers think of boys outside of the classroom much more than they think of girls. The same ideas were found when three different current teachers were asked what student came to their mind first, both current and overall.