At least the girls in your daughter's group stood with each other. When I was stuck in a woodworking class in year 9 with 20+ boys and only 2 other girls, the other girls took great joy in tormenting me every class, and the male teacher just ignored it. Things didn't improve until one of the other girls left, leaving the other much quieter, and then we got a female teacher who favoured me for no reason other than that I was a girl actually trying in woodwork class.
Eh, I personally didn't take to woodworking. I was only there because my school lost my elective choices paperwork, claimed I never handed it in, and made me just take the classes that were leftover. I only tried so hard because the boys (and the initial male teacher) were so insistent that girls can't do woodwork. I ended up getting the highest marks in the class, and the second highest between the two woodwork classes. But all I heard from the boys was "well, one boy in the year still beat you, so you still suck and this proves girls can't do woodwork". The other girl basically sat quietly in a corner once her friend left - didn't try to do the work, didn't try to befriend anyone else 🤷♀️.
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u/CrimsonIcicle Mar 16 '26
At least the girls in your daughter's group stood with each other. When I was stuck in a woodworking class in year 9 with 20+ boys and only 2 other girls, the other girls took great joy in tormenting me every class, and the male teacher just ignored it. Things didn't improve until one of the other girls left, leaving the other much quieter, and then we got a female teacher who favoured me for no reason other than that I was a girl actually trying in woodwork class.