Do you prefer a male or female teacher?
Credit: Kidsday staff artist / McKenzie Murphy, Dix Hills
School starts in about a month. If you were able to choose whether you could have a man for a teacher or a woman, which would you choose?
We asked 138 kids in grades four and five that question, and here is what we found out:
Female: 88
Male: 50
Based on this most kids would prefer to have a female teacher. But most of the kids who were in our class wanted a male teacher because our teacher, Mr. Hughes, is awesome. There are a lot of female teachers in our school who are also very good, so those kids really wanted a female teacher.
After thinking about it, we figured if they like the teacher they have, it doesn't matter if it is a man or a woman, a good teacher is all we want!
Thomas Hughes' fifth-grade class, Lakeville Elementary School, Great Neck
