I a 5th grade teacher who didn’t really like boys. Of course, I loved it because I hated goofy, obnoxious boys at that age. Our neighbor told my mom that her son went almost the whole year with out a desk or shoelaces because both were constantly being taken away for leaning back in his chair or having his shoelaces untied.
One of her own sons didn’t even go to her funeral, he said she always hated boys.
Humiliation is not a way to handle little kids.
Thank you, yes this broad hated boys. And my son’s class was full of smart sassy boys from in tact families, Boy Scouts, church (gasp), had pencils, light, dinner at 6, clean sheets. Some of the teachers were jealous and resentful, that is an issue too.