Who would you choose?

Question

Hypothetical scenario:

You have a young child, they are due to start school. You are allowed to choose their teacher. There are two candidates, and the only information you have is that one is a man and one is a woman. Who would you choose?

Come on, be decisive, this your child!

There's always at least one retard. Kieth (is that supposed to be keith?) the question is HYPOTHETICAL.

Rio...HYPO-bloody-THETICAL. You know what I'm asking, so if you don't want to answer properly why answer at all?

Answer 1

I choose Arnold, the kindergarten cop and governator.

Answer 2

I've liked every male teacher I've ever had and most of the female teachers, so it most likely would be good either way. I had that choice once for my son and I chose the male teacher because my son is the only child of an only parent, and I put him with positive male role models every chance I got. It was a good decision.

Answer 3

The woman.
Based on the fact that Women tend to be better with young children (generally speaking).
Honestly Ive never even heard of a male kindergarten teacher.
Men do better with the older children.
I just don't think many have the nurturing and/or patience that it takes to work with kids just starting school.

Answer 4

The first answer to this question displayed the most obvious prejudice i have ever seen in my life. It is people like this who stop honest kind hearted men who simply love kids from doing a job they love and enjoy. This person should be ashamed of themselves for putting such an answer.

I am sorry to take such a stance on this persons answer, but I love kids i would never hurt a child in any way, I adore been with them and surrounded by them and working with children was the best job I ever had - It was a job I enjoyed and I never thought of it as work it was something I liked doing and knowing that I was making a difference to these kids lives made me feel good and it was people like the person who put the first answer to this question people who think (hes a man he cant work with kids hes up to no good) that forced me to quit because I was verbally abused, I was refused promotions and constantly criticized all because I was a man who had dared to chose to work with young children.

To the person who posted the first response - I fear what you are teaching your kids, to simply judge without question, to find guilty without reason - Be ashamed, be very ashamed

To answer the question - I would chose neither with out further information and if that was not available i would simply not put my child in school.

Answer 5

Why is this all the information I'm getting? Aren't I allowed to learn of their qualifications?

My mom is a music teacher in an elementary school. As far as I know, the youngest grade a guy teaches there is two, and the kids adore him.

Answer 6

At the risk of thumbs down, I would say a man.
Why? Because a good male teacher is a good role model for my sons.
But if my sons had female teachers, it's not to say that I would be unhappy or anything.

Answer 7

You are an intellegent lad and i compliment you on trying to explore the mindsets with this approach.

The information is not sufficent to make a selection.

In todays world both genders could be suitable or unsuitable.

Gender can never be the decisive factor in isolation or otherwise.

Answer 8

If that is the only information available, I would tell the principal to place my child with the teacher s/he felt would be the best match for my child.
After all, that's part of their job!

Answer 9

Probably the woman because they seem to have more patients with little kids stuff. If I had to choose for a pre-teen or teen I would pick the man.

Answer 10

Woman.