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?

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Quotas sounds not right. If there were quotas wouldn’t there be equal representation?

    It was a long time ago ( the 60s-70s) but I recall having 3 male teachers in primary school.

    • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      It depends what the quota is. It could be a minimum percent. It could be a percent of people interviewed for the job.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      The first male teacher I had was when I moved overseas, in year 5, in the middle aughts. That’s a 3% chance of happening if teachers had an equal gender representation, and were spread equally.

      Maybe it’s gotten worse since the 60s. Maybe not. Some of this is obviously going to be random or depend on the specific school. 1% across all of primary school and preschool is low odds, but enough that it could definitely happen to enough students that you might expect to run into one of them in your lifetime. But if it were an even spread, you’d also expect to run into someone who had had all male teachers.