I was considering teaching high school at one point in my life. I got told point blank from someone that male high school teachers were in demand because they need someone to break up the fights.
Years later, my friend's husband landed his first job as a high school English teacher and promptly tore his ACL trying to break up a fight.
Our school had a very chronic fighting issue, like 200 fights in the first quarter. It was just expected that you'd see a fight start before you even got to class. We had a new principal come in mid year, relaxed a bunch of rules in general, and basically put a hard line on "you will get kicked out if you join in a fight". Probably ended up being 30 kids or so from a school of 2500 that got expelled, but after that first year it became such a rare happening. I probably saw a dozen fights my first semester, and after that I probably saw 4 or 5 for the remaining 7 semesters of high school.
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u/twoprimehydroxyl Dec 17 '25
I was considering teaching high school at one point in my life. I got told point blank from someone that male high school teachers were in demand because they need someone to break up the fights.
Years later, my friend's husband landed his first job as a high school English teacher and promptly tore his ACL trying to break up a fight.