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I don't know... I feel I can talk more easily with male teachers, for some reason, but then I am less on-edge when a woman is teaching. An exception is my science teacher, Mr Robins. I was failing miserably but then he worked his magic and, kazam, I'm top of the class. He's probably one of my favourite teachers, despite that he's pretty much universally hated.

I really am neutral about this ,but sometimes it can be slightly annoying for your teacher to act like your parent. I think of teachers more like adult friends.

Well, I've had awesome teachers of both genders. But I really would like to have more male teachers, because out of the nine classes I took this year, only2 of them were male.

Gender doesn't matter, although it seems to have some sort of effect. All but one of the teachers in my primary school were female, and this year, all my subject teachers save one were male.

It doesn't depend on the gender, it depends on the teacher themselves. As for the motherly approach, my one female teacher (history) has actually "adopted" some of the boys -being far from home, they need a mother- and she pets us all, but we love her. My science teacher is incredibly funny, and the two would be my favourites. But I don't think there's any difference whether they're male or female.

Although I must admit, some of the female teachers in my school get pretty moody. But also, being a girl, it's nice to be able to sit and chat with our house staff, sometimes they're more like friends than teachers.

All my favourite teachers have been female; on the negative side, all the teachers I hated were female. I think this is probably because the vast majority of my education has been with female teachers. I don't think gender has that much of an effect. I've seen strict and lax on both sides. All I want from a teacher is good knowledge, the ability to control a classroom, and the ability to take things lightly.

I like male teachers, I really do. But during the last school year, I had one male teacher who just scared me to death. He was always looking down girls shirts and telling us how short our skirts were. At my school, male teachers are NOT ALLOWED to tell us if we are breaking the dress code, they have to ask a female teacher to tell us. And it wasn't like this happened every once in awhile with really... er, trampy outfits. It happened EVERY DAY for outfits that were really not that bad. So yeah, I've just had bad experiences, but it's those few that make me prefer female teachers.

Ones ability to teach does not lie in their genitalia.

Tharlam Gyatso wrote:Ones ability to teach does not lie in their genitalia.

That is the most quotable line I've ever heard
My two favorite teachers are both male, and they take RS and Latin. I like the first one because he is ridiculously funny, and we seem to learn loads without doing much work. I like the second one because he is really philosophical and interesting. I think that it is down to the individual teacher, rather than their sex. My most hated teacher is a guy as well. We barely have any female teachers though.

I prefer male teachers, just because I tend to be assigned to women teachers who are going to menopause and are cranky or picky. Men tend to be more straightforward then women.

--Medusa.

It doesn't matter what gender my teachers are...It just depends on their personality. I had a female teacher and I didn't like her. In 7th grade I had the best female teacher ever! In 6th grade I had the worst male teacher ever and same with last year. I had a teacher last year that was like the best male teacher I've ever had!

So I have to say that it really doesn't matter to me...

Well, I never really cared before. But this year I had all female teachers (all seven classes), in eighth grade (now I'm going into ninth and leaving them--WAHH!!!!!!). And I loved two of them to death! They were so open and I told them everything. They know everything about me. The guys I like, really, really personal stuff. And it's really cool how they feel comfortable around me, enough to know that it's okay that they cuss around me, and they don't care if I cuss around them (I just slip up sometimes). Now, along with my two other best friends, Sarah and Mily, Mandy and Dolly (the two teachers I'm talking about) are also like my best friends. At first, it was kind of weird admitting it, but now it's not really. They're like... in their thirties, but they act like teenagers and they don't act like adults AT ALL. So, we've been hanging out a lot lately over the summer. It was so hard for me to let go. On the last day of school, I was in hysterics because, not only was I their student, but I was their student aid too. We were all bawling. I still haven't gotten over it, but the first three weeks after that day, I cried at least five times a day or more. Lmao. Now, I talk on the phone with them at least twice a day also. I have... emotional issues lately, for some reason. We think the last day of school really brought it out, because I've never been an emotional person, until them. Before, they were more emotional than me. Now I'm a wreck. But, yeah. So, I guess I like female teachers better because they can relate and somehow, someway, they became some of the best friends I'll ever have. Which is definitely good, because they don't act their ages, which makes it really cool, but they are older than me at the same time, so they have more experience in things than I do, so I go to them for advice about everything. I love them!

Guy teachers. Girl teachers are mean.

I don't think gender really matters. There are jerks in both sexes.

If elementary school is like primary school, it's because very few male teachers would want to teach little kids, and so tend not to go into primary schools unless they get to be headmaster. Blokes who become teachers generally become secondary school teachers- the subject they teach is usually the one they have a degree in and have some degree of affinity for, the curriculum is more interesting and the pay is better (I think, I'll check.)

I don't reckon it's sexism- there are probably just more female teachers around.

I don't know which I prefer. I've had some really good female teachers and some really bad male ones and vice versa. At the school where I was recently, there was a general trend towards better male than female teachers.

TheLadyHel wrote:If elementary school is like primary school, it's because very few male teachers would want to teach little kids, and so tend not to go into primary schools unless they get to be headmaster. Blokes who become teachers generally become secondary school teachers- the subject they teach is usually the one they have a degree in and have some degree of affinity for, the curriculum is more interesting and the pay is better (I think, I'll check.)

It's true actually, and funny. There's a very hot guy who just left my school that plans on becoming a primary school teacher . We were laughing at the thought, he's about 6'4, and you can just picture him teaching four year olds. But he'll actually be really good.