Almost half of my partners childhood friends became teachers, so that there is quite a few male teachers.

There are only a handful of male teachers at my kids’ school. I’ve noticed a much higher proportion of male principals in the area though.
Teaching should be much better paid and valued. That is one of the reason so few men take up teaching.

yeah there is a big pressure on boys to do the MANLY jobs though and more people feel comfortable with females anyway.

This is a real pity as both I and my sons have had some great male teachers. There is a real opportunity here to get more men into teaching.

Our experience has been the opposite – plenty of male teachers. It does vary from school to school.

I have heard that some male teachers are afraid of having false allegations made about them, that there is the risk of a child making an allegation as revenge for being not being allowed to do something which is not acceptable.
If the child is a bully, other children may be bullied into making similar comments about the same teacher or another one.
Some female teachers/ childcare staff are wary of comforting a distressed child the same way as the parent would because somebody might get the wrong impression……or a child may take a sudden dislike to that method – the parents have changed methods but the staff aren’t aware of it….then the child complains to another adult.

Interesting. My brother and a few of my male friends are primary school teachers. They love it but are definitely a minority.

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  • • mom93821 replied
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  Good on them – teaching is a brilliant job.

what a great loss for kids

My daughter is at Uni at the moment and shes in training to become a teacher. Most of the other students in her course are female.

My boys have had a male teacher last year, one this year and one of the two teachers next year is male. Our school must be an oddity. Plus both my parents were teachers – no shortage of male teachers in my life!

I wonder why they are declining. I had some fantastic male teachers when I was at school

we’ve had a few male teachers and they have been great. sad if the numbers are declining.

I hope they don’t cause I had some male teachers growing up and so did my children and they where great teachers, my technical studies teacher was awesome he even raced mud rally cars which we used to watch on the weekends and one of the teachers my children had used to go to medieval shows and fight it was great but best of all they cared enough to know when we needed help.

I had almost all male teachers when i was in high school. I think its a great thing. Alot of the kids looked up to them and respected them. We were scared sh*tless to do anything wrong haha

I was pleased to find a male carer at our child care centre. I hope they’ll get to experience a ale teacher, too.

That’s a pity! The kids miss a lot having mainly female teachers.

Such a shame – I hope positive action is taken to prevent this. We have 1 male teacher at our primary school and more normal balance would be fantastic.

Lke hd

I hope that men who are passionate about teaching are not discouraged from pursuing a career in teaching and are not discriminated against when it comes to employment.

It’s sad that make teachers are become so much less prevalent in our schools.