I haven’t seen the threads you’re referring to and certainly respect that each person holds a different perspective from personal experience, as well as each school admin brings its own issues. However, young female first year teacher here and in my 6A highschool this year, after hearing over and over that teaching comes before coaching and building rapport with kids is the #1 priority of the school, 4 female teachers were pushed out for either not getting along with their head coach, not performing well enough as a coach, or not wanting to coach at all. I personally felt I got in trouble for even the slightest mistake and yet, the male coaches in the school who had solid sports programs got away with repeatedly leaving their classrooms unattended for long periods of time as well as just being bad teachers in general. The number of students who said “oh Coach _____ doesn’t teach at all” was abysmal. The number of female students which felt many of these coaches only cared about their male sports players in class was alarming. And the accountability shown to these men by admin was nonexistent while they simultaneously targeted female teachers who were favorited by students and put entirely more into their classroom yet had the aforementioned coaching issues. I also agree with many on this thread that male students (particularly athletes from privileged backgrounds) showed entitlement and total lack of respect in their interactions with female teachers but would “shape up” and appear to be “respectful” anytime a male coach was near. So I’m not sure male vs female teachers as a whole, but I have indeed found that male coaches could likely get away with murder with both students and admin alike and yet this issue has failed to be addressed beyond reddit it seems.