@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social I remember my daughter being told "Physics is hard" by both the male A-level student and the female physics teacher when she was looking around at one particular open day for information on what subjects to take. If you've put people off from even looking at the information, then they aren't signing up later. For balance, there was also one very off-putting graphic design teacher elsewhere who had reduced her to tears with his spiel on "Art is hard," but that was mainly a "Don't go to this particular further education establishment".