S.L.U.T (have I been wrong for so many years)

My whole year of maths in the top set was spent trying but failing to get the attention of the male teacher so I could actually learn something. He never once came over to help me out, never once chose me to answer a question. I sat right with the boys but was obviously invisible.

What other random acts of sexism do you practice OP?

Jesus fucking H christ you really need to go and give your head a wobble, OP.

Scale - so we know what to measure you knobbishness against

Label - you're behaving like a knob.

Units - that tells us just how big a knob you're being

Title - you're a knob.

And if you really kept a bunch of 15 year old girls behind in class on a Sunday to ask them if it was ok then you're an even bigger knob that you seemed from your first post.

You got the girls in your class
To stay behind after class
And ask them if they found your "SLUT" acronym offensive or funny.

Right.

WTF?

I asked the girls (15/16 year olds from many different cultures) in my class today if they would stay behind for a couple of minutes and asked them about the previous lesson.

RIght. Sure you did.

OP, don't you live in Dubai ?

I'm struggling to think why any teacher would think this was ok, let alone someone teaching in an Islamic country .

wow wee things have changed since I took maths at school.

I was a bit of a maths head at school but I was also a feminist and I would have called you out, I would have got my parents to call you too and made a formal complaint. In fact they complained about poor maths teaching for lower levels of crap than that.

I'm actually really offended you have been using it at all. Have you ever discussed it with another teacher? Your head of dept, or head of school? Have you never been audited?

I can't believe a grown up would think this was an appropriate word to use in a classroom. How intimidating to the young women in your class.

And now let us consider the reasons why fewer girls go on to take maths at a higher levels...

Clue: It's not usually about competence.

I will admit that when I suggested L.U.S.T. I had assumed that it was obviously inappropriate for a teacher to use with a class and then tease out why that was obviously inappropriate and yet S.L.U.T. wasn't.

The idea that L.U.S.T. would be considered fine and dandy hadn't really occurred to me.

On a practical note, you could turn MyFabulousBoys' suggestion around and have S.T.U.N.

Also your students don't think you are hilarious, they think you are hilarious. You're the sad teacher who thinks he's down with the kids.

If you used SLUT or LUST in my child's class, I would do everything in my power to ensure you weren't allowed anywhere near a classroom again. I'd also tell my daughter to stay the fuck away with you

I rarely complain to the school but I would have done over that. What a horrid choice of word.

Time for some retraining, OP?

We use this in our staffroom...

K - Know your audience.
N- Never take everyday sexism for granted.
O - Official complaint is needed.
B - Bye bye teaching career.

I want to be like zazzles but am thinking 'ugh, creepy as fuck, a teacher yuck'

Bloody hell. Do they not do Equality & Diversity courses at your school then. Have you wondered how a girl in your class who was uncomfortable with that acronym/mnemonic might have felt with her peers laughing around her?

I don't mean to insult you OP, but you should really be posting about this on the site Everyday Sexism. Its events like this which happen all the time in men's and women's lives, and many, many of us allow them to pass us by with nary a notice.

Kudos to you for questioning this particular thing and being brave enough to ask here. Only by being aware of how we behave, can we then think of ways to change our thoughts, feelings, and thus behaviour

I took maths later than most of my peers. At one point I was the only female student left in a stats class. As a female student in a class with mostly male students, a male teacher and your success hinged on how you performed... it's not comfortable. One of my male teachers thought it was appropriate to ask the female students what they were doing in an A level maths class as 'girls don't need advanced maths'. Wanker. I did tell him he pissed me off later but was excluded from his class as a result. It rankles to this day. He was just the type to think that using an acronym of that ilk would be HILARIOUS.

Assuming you are for real (which is a scary thought), I suggest you google "stereotype threat."

Totally agree with Dreaming - one is massively derogatory, and the other is creepy. What proportion of your female students go on to A levels compared with the national average?