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As someone who did after-school science enrichment teaching, I can tell you that the 2 male signing guys I had to work with when I was given 3 deaf children in one class - were both clearly gay, and they gave me grief I didn't experience when I requested a woman to come in and sign for the children. He used the materials to make whatever the children were supposed to make - against the rules. I am not allowed to take in a completed model because the children will just copy it and not think their way through it. But when I tried to explain the rules to him and ask him not to do it, oh my - he got all hissy and accused me of not liking his creative way of dealing with the assignments (as if I cared!). Another issue was that he was using the materials that an absent child would have used, and I liked to save the materials for them, when they returned the next week. If he used them, they were no longer available, were they? Did he see any reason to this argumet? Of course not.

Another problem I had with him was that he didn't seem to think it was his responsibility to quiet the children when they became distressed or upset, that he wasn't signing fast enough to let them in on what other children were saying. To say that this slowed down the pace of the class is an understatement. I tell you, the two of them were a pair and after suffering with one or the other for 4 weeks, with 4 weeks left to go, I called the school administrator for these special needs professionals and requested that I please be assigned a woman. I could *not* say anything about the sexual interests of these guys; just made professional assessments and my ability to cope with them in the classroom.

I discovered that several other "special needs" professionals in the school were gay men - the reading assitant, the math tutor, one of the guidance personnel - so I'm not surprised to find that this is said about the genre in general. My experience certainly was that the special needs personnel were gay men. And the reason why? They make MORE than the regular teachers. Of the 2% (now the established real percentage of the population that is gay/lesbian, despite their wanting us to believe that it is 10%. NOT.) I have read that they are well-paid professionals. Their income level is much higher than the population in general. I don't know whether that is because they are very intelligent people, or knowing that they will live mostly single lives, have to support themselves with good earning potential or what. Many possible reasons, but by and large, homosexuals are better paid than the "norm".

Just thought I'd throw this in for an explanation about why "special needs" teachers are historically gay men.

If I knew how to do that tiny type thing, I'd be writing something about how I think it is because they like to be around children, hoping to persuade them into the lifestyle........