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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a teacher I didn't like at a private. She had a preferences for girls (I have a boy), often treating the boys poorly. Ha! She just had a baby boy. [/quote]

HA!  Now that's funny!

The sad reality though is that I'm seeing more and more female educators who dislike boys.  I'm not sure what their problem is with boys.  Maybe because they have poor relationships with their fathers, were teased by boys, rejected by boys in high  or in college.  It's like they have penis envy or something.  I find teachers like this scary and destructive.  Thousands of boys get misdiagnosed and labeled with problems that they don't even have due to male hating staff at their school.  I honestly believe that there is a growing push to emasculate and to psychologically castrate boys in many schools.      [/quote]

I doubt that teachers have issues with men in general.  But I agree that there are more than a few female elementary school teachers that prefer girls / have issues with boys.  Let's face it young boys behave worse than young girls in general and in particular in a classroom setting (don't pay enough attention, restless etc).  And young girls are much more likely to want to please / play up to the teacher.  It's easy to see dealing with the boys getting to be something that gets on an early grade teacher's nerves. And perhaps when a new class starts and she sees some of the boys displaying these behaviors, the eyes roll and she thinks here we go again and gets turned off by some of the boy students.

I think it is possible this particular situation is getting worse (from a boys / parent of boys perspective).  There was more preference for men in the past and perhaps this led to teachers being more willing to put up with and work with the boys ("boys will be boys").  Maybe with things more equal nowadays, the female teachers are less accommodating and more likely to get turned off to boys.

In talking with some of the other parents at our school, there are definitely several teachers who have a not boy friendly reputation.  And we live in an upper middle class area where I doubt the boys are that badly behaved.  They have been through pre-school, are worked with at home, teachers and education are supported etc..  I mean it is not the blackboard jungle.  My son's evaluation has really dropped this year and I do wonder whether it really is his academic performance lagging or whether the marks are behavior influenced.[/quote]

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