I stopped reading at the first paragraph.
Most of The Greatest Generation had women teachers.
Didn’t seem to damage them.
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You are so right.
I didn't have a single male teacher up through the seventh grade. That was in the 1930's.
We had no known cases of ADHD or other alphabetized disorders. The teachers kept discipline in their classes. Cross the teacher and you went to the principal's office, with its threat of a wooden paddle applied vigorously to your backside.
The male teachers I had after 7th grade included the football coach, a manual training teacher, a mechanical drawing teacher, and the band director. You didn't cross any of them either, as I found out to my sorrow.
Bullying among students we had aplenty. You just had to learn to stand up for yourself.
It’s not female teachers, it’s the kind of female teachers. I never had a male teacher in grade school except for religion class...I went to a Catholic school. But most of the teachers were nuns or hard-headed lay teachers. While they didn’t brook nonsense from miscreants, they understood the typical boy mental process. Most of today’s teachers, male and female, are drilled in feminist-oriented, political correctness. Times and the culture have changed from a half century ago. For the worse.
I was born in ‘44 and most of my teachers were women, that is true. They were a different kind from today’s women though, they thought girls should be girls and boys should be boys. We had pot bellied stoves in the classrooms where I attended the first seven years and sometimes the teacher would send one of the boys to fetch coal or to start a fire if the janitor had not already done so. There was a big fat pine log out back and an axe where we sometimes would cut splinters to start the coal fire. This was in grade school! I can still recall the fourth grade teacher asking, “Could one of you boys loan me your knife so I can open this package?” The girls would have been highly insulted if someone suggested they could do anything a boy could do.
There were often fights on the school ground, I was even in a few myself, the teachers didn’t seem to think it was anything terrible, they discouraged it and sometimes a boy got a spanking for fighting but no one thought they needed to call the cops or anything. Almost every single boy carried a knife to school but no one ever got cut with one even if there was a fight.
In the first three grades some even carried cap pistols to school to play with on the playground, this did incur some restrictions though, the teachers would not allow using actual caps in them because it was too noisy.
That was of course before the entire world went stark raving mad.
Hah! They FOUGHT for them.
It was a different world, female teachers included.