What role does gender and sexuality play in schooling?

 What role does gender and sexuality play in schooling? -MD
In many situations, gender roles play a large part in one's performance in the school setting.  It has been reported that exposure to different ideas have had such a profound impact on some people that it directly correlates with results on tests and performance outcomes in the school setting.  For example if a male student were to be told right before a test that all males that take that particular test consistently score much better than females on that particular test, they would be more likely to have a higher degree of confidence when taking that test and be more predisposed at having a better outcome than females.  I am not aware of any studies that suggest similar outcomes for members of the LGBTSSA community, but I feel that maybe these results would be similar.  Gender and sexuality most definitely predispose people towards having different opinions on members of the LGBTSSA community.  These factors also definitely contribute to ones own opinion of themselves and predisposes them to what their own stereotypes are of members of a certain group, and sexuality.
-MD