After never seeing primary school teaching as a career path, Ryan Brown now believes he's found his "calling", but he's one of just two male classroom teachers at his Canberra primary school.

Article suggests gender quotas and scholarships. Has anyone considered treating, and paying, teachers like the vital professionals they are?

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Interesting. My 5th grader has his first male teacher this year. My 5th grader also has Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), so it’ll be interesting to see how this works out for him. I’m rooting for them both.

    The first time I had a male teacher (4th grade), he tried to mix fun/goofy with being serious, and I latched onto the fun/goody and rejected the serious. In fact, it was 4th grade when I lost interest in school completely and I barely scraped by as a consequence.