I do believe in treating students as individuals – but if I can’t identify the factor that makes a difference for an individual, that’s not best practice.
I do find strange though his ideas of allowing female staff to supervise or watch adolescent boys whilst changing or showering come from. It may not do any harm, but this takes absolutely no account of the feelings of very young and impressionable young men.
Once again, these ideas are not really my ideas. They are a reflection of legal reality I have to deal with. Equal opportunity rules in this state explicitly do not allow me to stop female staff watching boys change or shower – and, in fact, duty of care makes it absolutely clear that not only are they allowed to do so, in certain circumstances, they are actually required to do so (if a child is beaten senseless in the showers, a teacher cannot say in court “I didn’t see it because I’m a woman and it was the boy’s showers.”) We certainly do our best to avoid such a situation – for example, doing our best to make sure a male teacher is on duty in situations where supervision is likely to be required, especially with boys of the ages that are most likely to worry about such things – but the legal reality is not something we can ignore.