These education theorist types forget that good cops re assigned to bad high crime areas are authorized to protect themselves when attacked. The main reason no teacher wants to go to bad school district is crime and personal safety. So the articles logic of using the police personnel assignment model is not valid.
My wife is a teacher and she gave me an article to read a couple weeks ago. I don’t know where she got it but it was about a small school district that assigned mostly male teachers, and many district football coaches to a school that had discipline/underperformance problems.
They also had dads volunteer to come in and help supervise lunch. The end result was that the increase in males within the schools was a big deterrent to the discipline problems, and once discipline was established, student performance went up.
Before someone gets upset, I am not saying the men make better teachers, only that some students seem to respond better to men in disciplinary matters, and personal safety might be less of a concern. Of course if someone comes in with a gun, then it doesn’t really matter whether the teacher is male or female.