Should we be suspicious of the reasons why men want to teach children in schools?

Answer 1

Of course not! Men are not all paedophile perverts! What has society come to when someone asks a ridiculous question like this? Men are not inherently or more likely to be evil, just as women are not all naturally good, kind and inherantly trustworthy. Why shouldn't men want to be teachers? Why shouldn't men be nursery nurses if they want to be? Is it any wonder that the number of men suffering from depression is so high, with attitudes like that being the accepted norm nowadays??! Some men are actually caring, sensitive and nurturing, and don't just want to help people so they can get them into bed. Men and women are both good and bad, in basically equal measure, so stop demonizing men, and generalising on the basis of gender. That's called SEXISM, and is worse than the type of sexism women used to suffer, because men nowadays are treated as though they're the lowest of the low, all personally responsible for the ills of the world, past and present, and basically treated as though they're money-making, purchasing machines, not individual people.

Answer 2

Should we be suspicious of the reasons why women want to teach children in schools? Don't be ridiculous. It's stereotyping like this behind the reason there are hardly any males on childcare courses in the UK, at a time when a majority of children do not have a good male role model in their lives. It worries me that as there are more and more absent fathers and less and less male childcare practitioners, future children are going to grow up having absolutley no idea of what a males role in society is, or in fact how to 'be male'.

Answer 3

Right now, many of the schools are looking to bring in retired military men to teach from K to 12. The men provide great role models for the children.

Answer 4

Sure, why not- there isn't enough witch hunting going on this country so lets go ahead and attack the motivations of every guy that wants to teach kids, by the way, have you noticed the increasing number of female teachers getting arrested for banging the boys? Maybe we should make mandatory home schooling so that we don't have to worry about it anymore. Oh wait, that's not gonna work because somebody got arrested for having sex with their own kid. I guess the only thing to do is pass laws making abortion mandatory until there are no more children left, and then we won't have to worry about this kind of thinking anymore.

Answer 5

Should we be suspicious of anyone who who wants to teach children, full stop. I am a teacher and I really think that we all needed our head testing when we embraced that career.

Answer 6

I always have been...

But is is a healthy cautious suspicion. I would not ever remove my child from a classroom with a male teacher but you bet your sweet bippy I watch like a hawk and always ask questions!

Having been molested by a male teacher when I was 8. I am prone to be overly cautious anyway so. I have actual reasons to be leary!

Veggie... Are you KIDDING! Ever watch dateline? Almost all of the pedophiles caught are in the military and willing to destroy their careers to go to a house where they KNOW a child is waiting to have sex with them!

I find military men make better sports coaches than teachers...

Brings to mind the guy from the breakfast club... HAGGA DAGGA!

Answer 7

Of course not. Most men are just ordinary citizens trying to do a good job. I am a highly sexed man, yet I treat all other people with true respect, and keep my sexual activities private between me and my partner. I would never harbour predatory thoughts towards a child. I think most men would feel insulted by this question.

Answer 8

this is typical of our over sensitive attitude.
there are alot of bad people out there, female and male.
we are short enough on teachers but now we are going to put even more people off just because of their sex?
there has been more than a few incidents reported where a female teacher has been charged with having inappropiate relationships with students, and thats only the ones we know about.
the government should put in place, and implement more checks on people to make sure students are safe from teachers, male and female.

Answer 9

Have you forgotten that in the old days (50 + years back) there were only male teachers because women were not sent to universities and they couldn't fill teaching positions...

Answer 10

Nooooo! In fact, when I was (primary) teacher training a decade ago I remember the men being told that they weren't allowed to sit a child on their knee when reading stories...and no-one was allowed to attend a bleeding child without first putting on protective gloves!