Stereotyping, low pay, lack of role models. Why the number of men teaching in schools is at a 40-year low.
Comment: Do not forget one of the biggest reasons why men are turned off from teaching: False accusations of child sexual abuse. If you help a kid who falls down, it might be seen as inappropriate touching and you could be charged of child sex abuse. If you do not do anything, you could be charged of CHILD NEGLECT. Damn if you do, damn if you dont...
Comment: I as a teacher invested about $200,000 in my education and the community tries to starve me here. We hate ourselves as Americans, wish to see foreigners only in business and don't even give teachers a chance. I was persecuted by a greedy landlord and his interests for an apartment that was previously city owned.Any right minded intellectual seeking to preserve themselves and their ability to pay back loans would go overseas to teach where Americans are respected for being intellectuals. Thank god I was able to teach overseas for a few years. We are becoming a low class society filled with cynicism. When we mistreat a teacher we doom hundreds if not thousands of students to mistreatment. But intellect is no longer respected in this country.What a shame.
Other countries are not only looking at us as low class and non actualized, but we are seen as stupid and illiterate as well. I guess that the cynics in trying to degrade our teachers are degrading the country.
Comment: JDubya299, I'll tell you what a doctor makes in Eastern Europe: about $300 / month. How do I know? I'm a Romanian Exchange teacher here. I make here, in SC, 10 (ten) times more than I did back home, where the cost of living is not that much cheaper than in the US. so, basically, you;re right. People here should stop bickering. they don't know what they have.
And let's get real waverly76, I think we as male teachers do live in a world that looks at us at least strangely... andand yes, as long as they make it a gender related problem, we should too
Comment: JDubya299, I'll tell you what a doctor makes in Eastern Europe: about $300 / month. How do I know? I'm a Romanian Exchange teacher here. I make here, in SC, 10 (ten) times more than I did back home, where the cost of living is not that much cheaper than in the US. so, basically, you;re right. People here should stop bickering. they don't know what they have.
And let's get real waverly76, I think we as male teachers do live in a world that looks at us at least strangely... andand yes, as long as they make it a gender related problem, we should too
Comment: I have been teaching for over 20 years now. Every year teachers are empowered less, are required to do more, and have less autonomy. Everyone is an educational "expert" except the people who do the job. Talk show hosts ridicule the schools and insult the teachers' unions. Not only is the pay below that of a fast food managers', there is no respect in or out of the classroom for the job we do. Every other profession is dependent on what we do, yet people with less education make more money. It is a shame that begginning teachers who haev children are eligible for free or reduced lunches. Yet, those of us who teach do so in spite of, not because of all of these things. I can hardly wait for the next "education president" to be elected....no doubt, he/she will be an "expert", too.
Comment: Why is the low salary of $25,000 per year only a problem for men? Get real! A salary of $25,000 per year is low for anyone: male or female. Young women teachers make the same low salary as men, and someday they will also have husbands and kids to support. I just don't understand why the author chose to make the low salary a point since it applies to both genders.
Comment: Let me add that an average Eastern-European teacher gets as much as 4130 USD per year (yes, no zero missing from the end). Sorry if I don't see what the challenge (talked about in the article) is, financially...
Comment: I wonder what a doctor gets in an Eastern European country? Or perhaps the person who posted such a ridiculous message wouild like to see what their profession pays there, before they make a comment. I know...why don't we compare what a teacher in the Congo makes? Frankly, it seems that some teacher didn't do their job in teaching critical thinking skills.
Comment: This is really a growing problem right now in the U.S. I am a junior in high school and plan to be a teacher. Already I get a lot of hack from people saying that I am lame, gay and just plain stupid for wanting to teach. It makes no sense that if a male want to educate and enlighten the children of tommorow they must undergo all these harsh stereotypes. We as a people must truly ban together and educate our children and most of all our parents to end this horrible trend.
Comment: This is a growing problem all around the U.S. I am a junior in high school and plan on going into the teaching profession and already I get hack about being lame, gay, and just plain stupid. The men of our society have been corrupted to think that any type of nurturing makes you "homosexual". This is disgusting to me but all I see is the matter getting worse unless we begin to change our perceptions and do something!!
Comment: Perhaps we need an affirmative action program to give men preference in hiring.
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Comment: This is a prime example of the gender bias found in education today. There is no shortage in male candidated, yet there is a shortage in male teachers. I was a candidate once but despite all my efforts, I never found a permanent position. This was not for lack of trying. I went the traditional route to become an elementary teacher; I obtained a BA from a local university and went on to graduate school to obtain a teaching credential. While women outnumbered men im the program I went through, there was definitely no shortage to speak of. When I finished my credential, I was under the impression that I would have little difficulty finding a job precisely because I was a man with a credential. That could not have been more wrong. Before giving up on my search, I applied at 16 different school districts in the Los Angeles/Orange County area, attended several job fairs, interviewed a few times, and substitute taught in 2 different school
districts for nearly 2 years. But as anyone who has been out of work for a time can tell you, applying and interviewing does not pay the bills. Nor does substitute teaching. I eventually gave up and took a County job which paid just under $10,000 a year less than a starting teacher' s salary in Southern California.
Yet, for some reason, my wife and her best friend, both of whom graduated after me, were able to find positions almost immediately.
The gender bias really became apparent to me when substitute teaching. At many of the schools I worked at, there were less than 5 men on the staff and at least one of those was the custodian. I worked at one school where the only man on campus is the custodian. Yet there were many men waiting in line at the job fairs I attended and taking classes along side me in the credential program I went through. There are men out there, we just aren't getting hired. The education establishment has nothing but itself to blame for this self-imposed problem.
That is my experience anyway.
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