I suppose its the whole "Women are more nurturing than men" idea. Teaching has traditionally be a female job (minus preacher schools of the early Americas) since it requires a connection with kids on an emotional level that males didn't normally seem to possess. Thats why they are coachs, because its a physical class.

The idea that a woman would go beyond her "role" as a nurturer of the mind and do something physical with a student always seems to shock people. A woman is suppose to be in control of herself and as a female she should have a natural "motherly instinct" to protect all children. People see women as the preprogrammed robots who will automatically take on a parent role when children are preset. Obviously these people have never seen me scream at a kid when he's messing around in my Dept. at work.

But when a man does it, he isn't looked at as a teacher, he's looked at as a man who has perverted tendancies. His profession is ignored and he's only judged on his gender. They are seen as not having the kind of control over their desires as women do and they aren't seen as natural fathers. Apparently people think its something a man has to learn, it isn't intuitive.