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View submission: Boys Want a Strong Relationship With Their Teachers. That Doesn't Always Happen
Grass is greener where it's watered. Details at 11. 😂
What disturbs me is that teachers are trying to dominate and control children as adults. If that's your mindset, you can't complain that the boys aren't relating to you. This study is ultimately talking about adults feeling that they must control children. No wonder school discipline rates are so high. Mind you, there are individual students who warrant that mindset. However, walking in the door assuming that creates an unnecessarily adversarial relationship where classroom management is maintained by denying anyone who moves like a boy a fair shot at an education.
I'm glad this study was done, so that we see what's going on and can qualify and quantify it. However, it makes me leery about recruiting male teachers moving forward. If that's the school culture they're being recruited into, what happens when they get dumped with all the icky boys none of the women teachers want to touch? That would create a self fulfilling prophecy of male teachers either teaching discipline or burning out.
There's nothing here!