Flame me all you want, however...
I happened to think of this the other day; when I was in school (50's and 60's), all the principals were men. Even in elementary school.
They were disciplinarians. They were generally fair and no-nonsense-type people.
Today, I read one story after another about insane policies in America's schools, and invariably, the principal is a woman. A Liberal woman.
One nasty thing she did is tell all staff that they weren’t allowed to talk to him at all or they would be considered insubordinate and be dismissed.
With the exception of a few Conservative women; most women are totalitarians. If you want to know what the world would look like if it were run by women - look at the schools.
Oh, and by the way; teaching Islam to America's students is treason. Period.
As a woman, I completely agree with your assessment.
While he was going through that mess, we ran into his former principal-a man. The former principal gave him the manly, quick one arm side hug because he knows my husband and knew the whole thing was wrong.
The female principal that replaced him has been so disastrous that a teacher told her daughter she will pay for private school for the grandkids
during their middle school years.
When I started elementary school in the late 1970s, the principal was a woman and she had held the title for decades. There were no problems on her watch.
When I was in middle school in the mid ‘80s, they switched from a no-nonsense male principal to a 40-something woman. Everyone was raving about how “wonderful” she was and her predecessor a boor. Having dealt with both of them, the difference was night and day. When I was implicated (falsely) by a school bus driver for a spitball melee (how quaint), the male principal looked me straight in the eye and asked if I was responsible. I replied with a “No, sir.” Without a second question or comment, he dismissed me.
When the next year and the woman took over and there was becoming a noticeable breakdown in discipline at the school and I was a victim of assault and battery by some unruly punks, I complained to her and she didn’t do a damn thing about it. It got so out of hand that by the end of the year a woman teacher (who also was ill-fit for handling unruly children), decided to single me out and I ended up quickly turning the tables and excoriating her loudly in the hallway with the parting shot that she wasn’t fit to teach 1st graders, nevermind handling oversized 12 and 13 year old aspiring thugs (with teachers and others coming out of the classes to see what the shouting was about). No one had ever spoken the truth to her straight out over her incompetency. The following year she transferred to teaching 1st grade.
This is almost quaint stuff by today’s standards, but watching ever-increasing incompetence in our public schools and protection of equally ill-suited teachers by labor unions year by year soured me on the entire system by the time I was 12 or 13. 30 years hence, it’s an epic-level disaster.