2010
It’s elementary: Male teachers rare
When third-grade teacher Andrew Bean wanders by female colleagues who have stopped to chat about a co-worker’s pregnancy, he’ll joke, “How ’bout those Seahawks?” “You’ve got to have a sense of humor about it,” said Bean, the only male classroom teacher at Fairmount Park Elementary in West Seattle. In Seattle, about 20 percent of elementary […]
Read MoreSchools Employ Bouncers Instead of Teachers
Schools in the UK have started employing hired muscle in order to control rowdy classrooms across the country. A London teacher revealed at the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers that bouncers were being taken on as supervisory staff to instil discipline in children and oversee crowd control. The initiative comes just months […]
Read MoreReal men teach kids
“Fewer Male Instructors Now Entering the City Public School Service” read a headline in The New York Times in March of 1912. Its first paragraph stated: “There is unmistakably a scarcity of men among the teachers recently appointed, or to be more accurate, among those who have accepted appointment. The explanation is simple — men […]
Read MoreMore men applying for childcare courses
Men are making up ground on women when it comes to working with children, according to Kingston College. The college has had more applications from blokes for its childcare courses than ever before. Despite talk of streams of redundant bankers moving into the industry because of the economic downturn, evidence from the college suggests men […]
Read MoreIt’s raining men
Andrew Hall says some of his footy mates find his choice of being a prep teacher “a bit funny”. Probably because these days only 20 per cent of primary teachers are men and even fewer want to spend each day battling a bunch of five-year- olds. But Hall, 26, fits in well at Darley Primary […]
Read MoreMen wanted – because teaching isn’t just women’s work
More than a quarter of England’s primary schools do not have a male teacher. This is the conclusion of a – for once – interesting and worthwhile Government survey. Our son, who started school last September, is the only boy in his year. Most of the time he’s happy enough but, every so often, declares […]
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