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?

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    We can’t rely on all parents to be able to do that

    The truth is I don’t think the problem lies exclusively with parents. It probably does to some extent, but I genuinely think there must be something (and I use the nebulous “something” very deliberately. I have no idea what that something could be) in our broader society that is leading to the problem, for it to be so much more of a notable problem today than it was 40 years ago.

    Regardless of the cause though, no, it isn’t a teacher’s duty to single-handedly fix the failure to bring up the kids right. When students don’t respect their teachers, and parents don’t respect them enough to back them when conflict does arise, it’s not even possible for them to do anything meaningful.