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Anonymous wrote:Because boys are a huge PITA.
All kids, boy or girl, can be a huge PITA!
Moreso the boys
Being a PITA is not gender-based. I’ve known lots of males AND females who are PITA. Maybe your family didn’t raise their boys properly, and that’s on all of you.
It’s not universal but it’s generally true.
Ask school principals what % of troublemakers are boys vs girls. At our school it’s 80% boys.
Being a middle school teacher has solidified my preference in wanting a girl.
That’s because you’re a typical female teacher who doesn’t know how to teach boys nor are you willing to learn. The ‘problems’ you’re experiencing are your fault.
I hate to break it to you, but any teacher, even the men will tell you that boy heavy classes have much more behavior issues than girl heavy classes.
I’ll weigh in, as a secondary teacher of nearly two decades. Maybe 60% of serious disruptions to learning at the work of a small number of boys. They are generally boys with untreated impulsive ADHD. Notice I said untreated and not unmedicated —not everyone needs or benefits from meds, but God help them, they need something more than mom and dad defending them as boys being boys and so misunderstood by female teachers.
The other 40% of disruptions is about half other boys goofing off or bullying and half girls’ drama, some of which is bullying and some social anxiety. I’ve taught thousands of students at public schools across the economic spectrum. I can count only two girls ever who were “high flyers” for behavior, but I typically have 4-5 boys every year. High Flyers are the students in trouble with multiple teachers throughout the year. It’s not a rough day or week. It’s a rough year. Sometimes, it’s the fifth rough year in a row. Or we look in the file and see the same behaviors extensively documented way back to K or 1st by their public school district in another state and a private school or two.
I’m not counting little things like pencil tapping, farting noises, or paper airplanes. I mean, instruction has to stop because no one can focus, maybe someone has to go out to calm down because of what another student said or did, or incidents that require follow up by an administrator.
The majority of boys are not causing major disruptions, but there are more highly disruptive boys than girls.
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