The school system is quite often considered and misrepresented as a world of its own. The myth of the neutrality of the school system has fostered this commonly held view and has fuelled a collective blindness. Coeducational legislation was seen as the be-all and end-all, and yet the institutional framework did not warrant equal academic opportunities. It would seem unreasonable to claim that the school system is not part and parcel of the construction of gendered social relations while all areas of social life are affected by gender disparities. One of the most blatant signs of sexism at school is to ignore gender inequalities in academic counselling on account of some alleged neutrality. Not taking gender inequalities into account is a way of promoting the idea of the individuals’ free choice, which in fact produces gendered inequalities under the pretence of coeducation.