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khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

I teach about 600 kids. I'm going to give a generous guess that about 25 of them look like they COULD be mistaken for the opposite gender.
There are about 10 which I TRULY don't/didn't know the gender of; a couple of those are so iffy, I don't even want to hazard a guess.

Today my Kteacher made the mistake of calling a girl a boy; but heck, I didn't even THINK this was in doubt (he looks exactly like a male).

My working theory is: Check the colour of the shoes, but even that backfires sometimes.

Does anyone else have issues like this in their school? It really weirds me out.

Scouse Mouse · Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Location: Cloud #9

I have the same problem... and I work at an all boys school Rolling Eyes

Alyallen · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject:

It happens at my school a tad bit but my students all where uniforms so it gives a fairly good clue of who's who.

My students are confused about me when they first meet me because I'm a woman with short hair but a lot of the boys run around with earrings and feathered hair....go fig Rolling Eyes

poet13 · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:29 pm Post subject:

I have two boys (twins) at my boys school. I swear they might actually be girls, or at least some kind of gender confused. Their faces are completely girl like, their voices the same. And to top it off, they have ponytails that go half-way down their backs.

Horangi Munshin · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: Busan

You've gotta wonder sometimes if one of the parents (the mum) didn't get her wish.

There was one boy at a kindergarten I taught at who would often come to school wearing girlish clothes, pig tails etc and he was a witch on Halloween.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

My high school got a grant to start a special ed. programme this year and I thought they had enrolled a retarded boy because there wasn't such a programme at any of the boys schools in the area (I'm at a girls school). She doesn't wear a uniform and it took me over a month to find out it wasn't a boy.

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

...well... just found out that another girl is ACTUALLY a boy.

crap, I hate being wrong with that.

Well, 3 more to go.

riley · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: where creditors can find me

I've got a boy in second grade, who I first saw him as a first grader, he's got a ponytail (long!) just like a girl does. A couple of the other boys I've seen like that (not to that extreme) have always come across as brats. I have a feeling it's because mommy wanted something cute so she did that and then spoiled the hell out of him.