Note to English teachers...

Note to English teachers..., a photo by pdw's atelier on Flickr.

You will notice I occasionally use the somewhat accepted (but normally rejected) reflexive prounoun 'themself' in my comments and posts.
Why??
Because our politically correct society no longer accepts, or even understands, using gender specific pronouns such as 'himself' to refer to a group containing both genders.

Just another example where by trying to avoid offending someone, we are making things more complicated, and must throw away the book.

(Dictionaries before the 1970s are becoming more useless all the time.)