Posted on 09/01/2011 11:35:46 PM PDT by EnglishCon
"There are just 48 male teachers in state nurseries.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said more male teachers were needed but they were put off by worries that teacher-pupil contact was a "legal minefield"."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
I am curious and asking for information from people in the US - is this as big a problem there as it is here?
Male adults are simply not designed to manage very young children. When a boy can reach over the top of his head and touch his ear, then he is ready to be taught by adult males. Pre adult girls are never to be taught by adult men — they’ll either wrap them around their fingers, or ruin their lives with slander.
Facts are facts, and these facts have been known forever.
I had women teachers up until 7th grade, which was also the time I starting “switching classes”, rather than sit in one room all day with the same teacher and the same kids ... right around a couple of years following puberty ....
I had no male teachers until senior high, grades 10, 11, and 12., but that was in the 50s, and in Tennessee.
My son had no male teachers until 9th grade. And he’s in 11th grade now.
Bet I learned more than the kids do today.....No unions, halls quiet, no fights, recess on the playground, swings, playing tag during recess. Had library as a class and learned to love horse stories, Black Stallion, Silver.
No learning to put a condom on a cucumber. Brought your own lunch and paid 3 cents for milk if you wanted a carton, but you had to wait in line...chocolate milk once a week, hall monitors (I was one) to keep the kids going in different directions from bumping into each other and after school one of the few girls that played marbles with the boys. Sometimes it was pitching pennies against the side of the school...also placed knives with other kids....Learned to put the point of the knive on the tip of your finger and flip it to stick into the ground, do that with all 4 fingers and thumb and you went on the the second level.....1940's, 1951 went to intermediate school grades 7 8 & 9. Math teacher was male, typing teacher male and a couple of others but mostly women that were TEACHERS, not educators....and we learned....
My 6th grade teacher was male. He had a great sense of humor and allowed us to play harmless pranks on him, like spelling out his name on his desk with dead ants, or fake vomit on his chair. But when it came right down to it, we respected him immensely for his love, caring attitude, and his ability to communicate to us what we needed to know to “survive” in Jr. High School, our next step to adulthood.
Of all my teachers from K-12, I’d say he was the one I miss the most.
Mr. Van - My 6th grade teacher was the only male teacher for my elementary career. He was the best teacher that I ever had. He was the first person that indicated that I could actually go to college and tried to instill the skills necessary to accomplish that goal.
I moved away from California after 9th grade, and when I came back for a visit over 20 years later I went by my old elementary. An older man was carrying games into his classroom before the start of classes. It was Mr. Van. I got the opportunity to tell him how much his teaching changed my life (I had gone on to get a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering and an MBA).
Thank you Mr. Van.
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