Article suggests gender quotas and scholarships. Has anyone considered treating, and paying, teachers like the vital professionals they are?
Article suggests gender quotas and scholarships. Has anyone considered treating, and paying, teachers like the vital professionals they are?
We are not allowed to be caring and nurturing. Any man that is, is often seen as “suspect”.
Just a couple months ago I was giving snacks to my kids by a river, with one of them on my lap. Then a lady started yelling across the river, saying I was suspicious and asking my son if I was really his dad… It changed a really nice moment into something horrible.
This idea always makes me angry. As a doctor and as a member of a community I am always kind and affectionate to children. Anyone who says I shouldn’t be can fuck off back to paranoid lala land.
It frustrates me as well.
Apparently the biggest problem for male teachers is accusations. For a female teacher, there needs to be proof. They get the benefit of the doubt. Male teachers don’t. Many parents and even other teachers take the “no smoke without fire” mentality. It’s stressful to do the job, when you dare not let yourself be in a room with a student without someone else present.
As a dad, I try and help with dad’s being seen as care givers, as well as just providers. It’s a long and slow fight however.
Sorry to hear that. A school in Singapore had a high profile case where a student accused the then headmaster of inappropriate contact. Many ex students came out in support and he was eventually acquitted. Didn’t stop the school from shipping him off to a posting in Indonesia though. It sucks all round.
It angers me too. I have male friends that refuse to interact with kids because of how society could view them… heart breaking for them, a critical loss to society
Unfortunate too, because the kids only get brought up with one segments preconceived ideas. Imo that’s not healthy.