Anyone ever requested a male teacher --

So, what do you think it is about "maleness" that works better for your kid? Is there any other way to phrase the request? Is there a way your kid responds to male authority figures, maybe with non-school examples?

Yeah, I've requested a male teacher, for my non-ADHD'er, and I talked about male influence & the fact that my kid was picking up the cultural stereotypes of male/female more than a bit too much & I'd love to see him with a truly gentle male teacher as a role-model balance. He did get the teacher (yay!), it's worked out great--but I'm not sure I'd've requested "random" male. We can't request teachers AT ALL in our school, so I had to be apologetic & say that I'd be doing it if there were 2 male teachers. Really, of course, any male elementary teacher is likely to be nice--it's not the standard for males to be, as it were.

Good luck!