Gender pronouns in essays

yucca10
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:59:00 +0000

My son used a singular “they” in his essays (as in “anybody who ever found themselves…”) and his English teacher (a middle-aged lady) suggested to change it to “he” everywhere. Now I’m wondering - should he make the changes and appear sexist? keep as is and appear ungrammatical? or write “himself or herself” and sound awkward?