Why should they?
Because kids are bat-sh!t crazy.
I read an article some years ago, about a school which hired a man kindergarten teacher. And there were numerous parental complaints and concerns about a man in such a job.
At least in that place, its as if people just expect that a kindergarten teacher will be female.
And we could explore why people.have such ingrained attitudes about what is appropriate for men in the teaching profession.
I tried. I really did. I subbed in our local school system for three years, to the delight of students, teachers, and administrators.
When there were two openings for history teachers, I thought I was a shoo-in for the gig.
I never got a call or an email, nor did anyone come to my house to tell me I had earned an interview.
So, I decided to force the issue (= going for broke), and made an appointment to see the principal, with whom I was on a first name basis, talking sports and some such.
The principal told me my credentials were platinum (and they are), but couldn’t find any evidence in my dossier that I had... wait for it....
coached a sport.
So, I’m outaluck teaching in New Jersey.
That’s OK. I’m back in engineering, and very happy. I still pursue my historical interests, so it’s a +++ all the way around.
Of course, using my real name as a handle at FR might have had something to do with my career change, rather, failure to do so.
No problem. I just thought you’d all like to know.
Pete
Perhaps its because the academic environment has become pretty hostile to the average male?
Not one word in the article about the way men are treated with suspicion when they are around kids, or about the high potential for false charges of sexual harassment or sexual assault.
And not a word about the screening that starts from the moment one applies to ed school, where they consider attitudes more important than achievements.
I once looked in to the possibilities of becoming a teacher and was utterly repelled by what I found but that wasn’t because I was a man. It was because I was a Conservative.
If you are a supervisor on a job you are in effect a teacher. A big part of what you do is mentoring and training younger guys.
My wife is a teacher, and I could never do it. I’d go broke just on duct tape alone...
Because of the stultifying public education bureaucracy.
It is sad that with so many military vets unemployed that they can not get into teaching.
Because they don’t want to have a news story mentioning their dalliances with students posted on FR.
Studies indicate that young males, particularly young minority males from single-mother households, do much better in school if a male authority figure is leading the classroom.
Of course the feminazis have worked triple-overtime to suppress that.
Whatever the reasons, I think the kids are on the losing end. So many kids are being raised by moms only, with no positive male influence. Good, ethical, intelligent male teachers could provide some positive male role models.
I’m a 38 year old male and I teach 5th grade Math, Science, and US History in Texas. We actually have several men at my school. Every year on the first day of school I ask the kids if they have ever had a male teacher. Most have not. Every year I have siblings of kids from previous years and have been requested by parents because the older brothers and sisters enjoyed being in my class.
In case anyone is wondering, I’m on my lunch break, not Freeping during class.
Perhaps women are innately better equipped to handle cute irrational and semi-rational beings without killing them?
I teach first-year university students, would not want to handle high school students, and especially in the present environment would never dream (outside of a nightmare) of teaching in an elementary school. At my level, I can take the position “if you don’t like it at least enough to cooperate, there is the door.” Any lower than this level and that is not an option.
Four of my six years in elementary school were spent with male teachers, and they were quite good (it was a small school so I had each for two different grades), but it was also a time when corporal punishment was accepted.
schools and the lefty union leadership regard male hierarchy as the enemy.
Why would you want to work as a man all day around the systems that said your sex was evil..?
It doesn’t make sense.
that is also why more and more men are simply deciding to not go to university - they are consenting to making less money later cuz they just do not want to be harassed.
I went to public grade school in Texas from 1947-1953. To the best of my recollection, every one of my teachers was female, every year.
Why don’t most Males go into teaching?
Because MOST males are not gay. However, I do find that a lot of homosexual men like to go into teaching to prey on younger males.