This is PC gone amok. Men should not be in elementary schools. No “man” wants to watch little kids. Unless it is a PE teacher, like some ex-jock who didn’t have the grades to teach high school, there is no F-ing way that an elementary school should allow an adult male, non-parent into their building.
I say this about baby-sitters also. There are morons that have teenage boys babysit kids. No way.
You’re wrong about no man wanting to volunteer with kids. A few good family men and some bachelors have been great in boy scouts, and big brothers. (I am not challenging the need for screening, nor the idiocy of allowing perverts to bb screened in and not screened out.)
I was a voulnteer tutor at a private Christian school. Am I some kind of pervert? How about all the male doctors and nurses at a hospital for children?
You paint with too broad a brush.
That is extreme. I had quite a few male tezchers in elementary and jr. high and never noted the slightest gaydar reading. Nor did I hear of any trouble with any of them.
You would probably have stampeded Fred Rogers off the air.
thats completely misandrist.
and also ignoring the fact plenty of women teachers sexually abuse kids as well
probably the most retarded post i’ve seen this week
Are you on drugs?
Wth are you talking about I had several male teachers in elementary school, I babysat as a teen.
The best teacher I had in elementary school was a black man, son of Mississippi sharecroppers, who told his life story without bitterness, only matter-of-factly in a way that helped us see and appreciate, for example, being able to buy loose leaf paper instead of picking up old brown shopping bags from the side of the road. I don’t know how he did it, but he did. It was when I discovered that a child could be smarter than an adult — I was quicker, and I knew it.
I learned the difference between intelligence and wisdom that year — he was a wise,kindness personified. This was in the 60s, and boys in his class kept their shirts tucked in and were expected to act like gentlemen; girls in skirts sat with their ankles crossed and were expected to act like ladies, and we all shined our shoes. He invited us into the classroom when we were finished lunch (what teacher does that?!) to play jacks, checkers, etc., and we had dances (boys in a line on one side, girls in another.
He taught ethics, humility, grace, and long before inspired self-respect above getting the grade.
His name was Raymond E. Alford, and I have tried to find any mention of him — although likely not hard enough. But he is the best of men, and I imagine hundreds of us would be lesser people if not for him.
the thought of not having known Mr. Alford — I would not be the same person, although my wish nowadays is that I had learned better his lovingkindness.
No men in elementary school? Sexist and demeaning!
EXCUSE ME; but this has nothing to do with PC, it’s just another example of school administrators not doing their jobs, their ADMINISTRATORS because they are HORRIBLE TEACHERS who got out of the classroom as fast as they could because they can’t handle and hate kids.
My Son is a teacher in an elementary school 5th grade), he chose elementary because he says that’s when the kids show the most interest and curiosity.
MY SON IS NOT A PERVERT as you seem to think every male teacher is!
He chose elementary level because he says the junior high level kids are to wrapped up in their games and worrying about their self image, and the high school level kids are to wrapped up in being childish assholes.