Just like the 2004 cult teen movie ‘Mean Girls’, teachers are finding it more difficult to discipline girls who misbehave because they are ‘smarter’ in their approach.
Teacher Georgia Neale wrote in The Sunday Times: ‘Boys are far more malleable. They are not perfect: the aggressive ones shout their mouths off and scarper, sometimes punching walls along the way.’
‘But girls are decidedly meaner and smarter in their approach.’
It seems that when it comes to high school politics, teachers are not immune to the influence of the ‘Queen Bee’ and her power.
Georgia continues: ‘The queen bee will often try to use her top-notch position to undermine female teachers.’
‘It is difficult to teach a girl who feels you should be her subordinate, especially when said girl believes that complying with the most basic requirements would mean showing weakness in front of her friends.’
She concluded: ‘Classroom management-wise, girls are an absolute nightmare for female secondary school teachers.’
The movie ‘Mean Girls’ was based on a self-help book by Rosalind Wiseman entitled ‘Queen Bees and Wannabes’ which was written to help parents cope with the bullying amongst teenage girls.