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lumberjack_jeff

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6. I transitioned to "work at home" from "SAHD".
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 10:22 AM
Sep 2012

Dealing with teachers during grade school was the worst. Me) "Let's get started" Teacher) "don't we want to wait for Mrs Lumberjack?"

The bias, stereotype and predjudice is one more thing you just gotta deal with. I learned about 10 years ago that in conferences with groups of teachers, I sit at the head of the table. You can see everyone physically do a big reset as they readjust their expectations.

I don't really think of it as a huge problem, personally. I do think it's a huge problem culturally. More than 90% of primary school teachers are women, partly because of this bigotry. This has caused demonstrable harm to education in general, and boys particularly.

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