What is different is this incredibly malevolent therapeutic tendency that is not a function of the sex of the perpetrator, and the prevalence of a social model that insists on classifying normal behavior as pathology, to be treated with outrageously overprescribed and powerful drugs. Either of the two aforementioned teachers would have thrashed the hell - I mean physically - out of anyone presuming to treat her students' behavior with drugs. And the parents would have backed them, too. That, alas, has also changed.
I used my teachers as role models. Nuns. They raised boys to be men. I edited out the unnecessary embarrassments, and used what worked. And I used knowledge of men’s thinking for this.
Presto.
People overreact and throw everything out, instead of using what worked and getting rid of what didn’t.
Feminism is not the answer to boys’ bad behavior. Nor are drugs.
By the way, women teachers are on drugs at an outrageous rate, at the moment.
Alcohol, antidepressants, etc, as these are more accepted than they were in former times.
Birth control pills are mood and behavior altering, and when people tune in to the sensible notion that hormones, as in the pill, alter ones’ thinking and behavior, it’ll be worse than cigarettes. Hospitals, thankfully, have stopped putting them into the water supply and have designated waste receptacles (for all drugs)