Interesting. My 5th grader has his first male teacher this year. My 5th grader also has Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), so it’ll be interesting to see how this works out for him. I’m rooting for them both.

The first time I had a male teacher (4th grader), he tried to mix fun/goofy with being serious, and I latched onto the fun/goody and rejected the serious. In fact, it was 4th grade when I lost interest in school completely and I barely scraped by as a consequence.