B-W, I love the 'carpark mafia' slogan!!!

It's part of the reason I enjoy being a full time working Mum, although I miss my girls immensely... I hate the Mums that simply do not have lives & get to the school at 8:30am & when you drive past at 11am on your wayu to get groceries there's still 8 or 9 of them standing at the gates still talking about the other parents, teachers, kids etc!!!
They are IMHO the ones that start the vicious rumors & start alot of the problems!!!

I agree with B-W too, that it's more personality clashes that gender clashes! ( Iam not a teacher BTW)...

Maddison has not liked her Italian teacher from day 1... I have met her & she seems nice enough, but I think maddy is one of those kids that always puts her hand up for anything & everything & I guess this teacher is sick of her as such!
She is extremely popular with teachers, parents & students from the entire school... But I guess her personality clashes with the Italian teacher... She still gets great marks in Italian, but she said the teacher wont choose her when she puts her hand up & so it makes her feel like the teacher treats her badly... I told her the teacher might just want the other kids to have a turn too & to maybe not always put her hand up, maybe wait & if NO body else puts their up, then try!!!
Luckily Italian is not important as Maths, Reading, Spelling etc & we often speak another language at home so she is learning another language anyways...
But I do believe it is personality over gender...

But by all means if your not happy go discuss changing classes, but just also be aware the child will then have issues of Mummy sticking up/getting involved etc...