Some people believe that female teachers at schools do much better than their male counterparts.

• Check whether this belief has some substance.

It is been a topic of discussion for ages: whether female teachers or their male counterparts do well at schools. I think the belief that the former are better does  hold some water, but males on the other hand have their own strengths. 

Teachers, as a matter of fact, are very much influential among all school children. This fact notwithstanding, there is a little gender preference towards female teachers among children. This must be primarily due their (female teachers)’ being more compassionate, understanding and above all empathetic towards children’s likes and dislikes.

For example, most of the modern day children are from nuclear families where mothers are more involved in the academic, physical and emotional well being of children than fathers. This heightened and all round involvement is likely to get reflected in a school ambience as well where what we find is a cross section of children from families of diverse socio-economic, academic and emotional statuses.  So no wonder female teachers have a little extra edge among school children.

This is not to mean that male teachers are totally left in the lurch; rather they have a different set of quotients. Keeping a heterogeneous student community in the set order of the school is cut more for male teachers than for females. For example, male teachers are more comfortable in handling bullies, managing outdoors stints and ensuring general discipline. So male teachers are really a force to reckon with when it comes to school as a system.

An overview of the discussion makes me conclude that the argument on female teachers is not without much reason; rather there is great substance. But their counterparts, on other the other hand, are placed in a different plain of theirs.

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