Sexual Politics & Education.

Although this situation has probably existed for millenia, it was brought into sharp focus recently.  I was 'on supply' at a school, covering a Year 7 English class.  Their regular teacher was there at the start, and he explained that he was letting them watch a film as it had relevance to some work they were doing in the next half term.  He then left to attend a meeting.  The film started and some of the students were not interested and decided to get some paper and draw, which I allowed.  I then noticed that all the tables were either all male or all female, except one.  On this table, a lone boy sat with, and I don't mean to sound lecherous here, with some of the prettiest girls in the class.  He started 'playing up' so I told him off.  He continued to 'play up' so I went over to give him a stern talking to.  He complained that this happened in every class.  He pointed to a girl sitting opposite and said that 'she threw something at me.'  I said that was unfortunate, but if I saw her misbehaving, I would deal with it, appropriately.  'But Sir!  This happens in every lesson!' was the boys complaint.  'Then you have to be careful of who and where you sit' I said trying to be helpful.
The next time I looked in the direction, he was on his feet, trying to squash his tormentrix between the table and chair.  'Right! Come here!'  I was ready to throw the book at him, but as there was only 10 minutes left of the lesson, I could not have him standing outside, so I made him sit an another, all male, table.
This has certainly happened to me in Junior school, and is probably the reason that some schools teach boys and girls separately.  There are some people that do not possess a 'Y' Chromosome that can make a possessor of a 'Y' Chromosome do some things that he may not want to, which leads to the owner of the 'Y' get into trouble.

Being unemployed..........................

One word that I could use to fill in the gap is 'Sucks'!  I took Voluntary Redundancy from my last place of work and have been unable to find work since.  I have a casual job at a local Secondary  School invigilating. I have joined a teaching agency, but the amount of work coming my way is not very much.  I have been unemployed for six months and my J.S.A. stops in a few days.
I am an educated man, I have 10 'O' Levels (Yes, I am that old), 3 'A' Levels, and a University degree.  I have trained as a Psychiatric Nurse.
Sorry that last bit was a bit muddled.
Anyway, I have a choice.  Do I carry on with the path that I am travelling, or do I choose another path?
I could return to nursing but I have to work in a care environment for 6 months and then do a 'return to nursing' course, but there have been redundancies in the N.H.S. and will working in a 'care environment' be a step back?
I have a mad plan, which involves returning to College.  My choice would be accounts.  I am going to put this plan into motion early next week.  Watch this space!