I am so glad for you. You have no idea how awful some schools are.
You had about 5 TIMES as many males as my school as a percent. We had 3 starting. I'm the second that bailed. There is one left. There are no male instructors. He will be the only male in class. He is a super nice guy but I'm not sure he'll make it. He is the last of us and there are still several semesters left.
http://ijahsp.nova.edu/articles/Vol9Num2/pdf/Wolfenden.pdf
As I stated I think it is very school dependent. I've look at other schools and I've found an accelerated school that talks about how diverse it is. I might consider that in the future but more likely I'll go sit on a beach. I'm going to be retired very early more than likely. I wanted to help people, but like I said I wasn't going to kill myself to do it.
http://www.realityrn.com/visitor-topics/failed-nursing-program/1392/
Maybe nursing isn't for you is what they say.
That passion! Plenty of nurses didn't make the first time. Blah blah bah. I think nursing school can be easy or hard depending on location. If you read the literature many men consider dropping out but stick with because of the time and money invested. They way my school is setup is it produces martyrs or blows people away so they get to brag about the NCLEX pass rate.
The only way to win the game was not to play. You literally could fail out people that you didn't like if you were the teacher based on how it was graded. I was getting some super weird vibes towards the end just before I quit. It was time to cut my losses.
I had multiple textbooks with information the contradicted. We had teachers where one would contradict the other. I get told by teacher x to do it this way. Teacher y says no don't do it that way. WTF do you want me to do on my test because I've been told 2 different things. Shit the test probably will have the 3rd way which is what is in the textbook.
I was lied to about the program before I started. I was then lied to about another thing before I quit. Nothing I ever did would be good enough. I wasn't being taught the material in my opinion.
Final straw was the unprofessionalness exhibited by dropping things they knew we needed to complete in our lap with no warning. Again, this type of schooling is setting up martyrs and lateral violence. Seriously, you people knew this had to be completed and you didn't get us so much as a slight heads up?
As I said consider yourself lucky. You school seems like the exception not the rule.