For boys (some) the lack of male teachers is a problem. Both my sons bemoaned the fact that there were few male teachers at both their junior and senior school, particularly when they reached puberty and beyond. That's not to say that they didn't have some very good women teachers but some female teachers I have encountered have made it clear that they don't enjoy teaching boys and this feeling has been picked up on, not only by my sons but their male friends. We had a particularly bad one in year six who just didn't want to deal with the boys, she was clearly more than ready for retirement and when accompanying the children on a week long trip to the Isle of Wight kept informing us the parents she had done this for x amount of years and really should have a medal for her efforts. In retrospect when they and I look back we can see just how feminised education has become. My younger son particularly enjoyed A level college far more than school and this was down to the fact that he was taught there by a greater propensity of male lecturers.
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