Do teachers show partiality?

Abstract

Well, Doc, one trouble with our schools is too many women teachers. The war will make this situation worse just when we need the influence of men for our children, observed the school board member, Steve, to his teacher-training friend. Now, Steve, most children are under the influence of their mothers more than their fathers. Would you change that situation, too? It's not the young ones that I'm thinking so much about. The junior and senior high schools will be filled with women just when we were getting some men teachers. The women are partial to girls and there should be a balance of men to show by examples how men act. Besides, men are more stable on any job and do not use their work to tide them over until they get married. The older women teachers are hardly normal anyway. Wait a minute, Steve, you're getting a lot of counter-accusations in that speech. First, you want the girls to stay in the profession; and then you don't think they are normal if they do. Are the men normal if they stay? don't believe in school boards refusing married women jobs. I think they make better teachers than single ones. I don't think much of men in teaching. Many are sissies, but we have been getting more 'he-men' in recent years. I don't believe the small towns permit men or women teachers to be very normal, but the cities have lessened their restrictions and have some real fellows in their schools. What about that statement you made that the women teachers are partial to girls? Are the men teachers partial to boys? That's what I think. I know you'll want me to prove it. Let me get a word in first this time. Suppose you prove it is not true. Proving such things is your line, not mine. All right, Steve, I'll find some groups of junior high pupils where the boys and girls have both men and women teachers and see how the school marks or grades the women and men give boys and girls agree. I'll also try to find out whether these marks agree with what one would expect of the groups according to their intelligence test scores. Girls generally get higher school marks than boys. This may be