Children at the gang stage of development are sensive to gender discrimination. According to Lowenfield (1987) boys are pressurised by their peers to avoid associating with girls or playing girl's games, as they taught to regard females as inferior to males. As a result some boys feel hurt and worthless in their sense of dominant boyhood when girls perform much better in learning or school work in general than they perform. They rediculed their peers and feel relagated to inferior female sex which they view as weaker and useless ,in an effort to try to place the girls at their female inferiority position by either ridiculing or simply inconveniencing them.The outstanding girls develops perpetual silence in order to avoid such violent aggressive tendencies and they ceased to participate and be heard in the classroom. Eventually they became retarded not only by prevailing of silence but of believing that they are inferior as being proclaimed by their boys counterparts who induced fear in them. Their (victimised girls) freedom to learn deprived and during open discussions , they fear to express their views in order to avoid of gender descrimination laid against them ,especially as females the weaker sex.
Peer groups can bring retardation in children ,at the same time they are capable of developing progressive influences. The teacher therefore should assist the disadvantaged children to adopt better attitudes towards social learning ,playing or work of peer group at school so that they prepare for them a bright future without aggression of gender desparity. At this point in time it is very important to note that the poorly organised school is the major cause of retardation in children.
Children's problem of behaviours,teachers has problem of identifying them and device stratergic help them to learn effectively from such wrong attitudes and condone it.
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