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jessica

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6,321 posts

283 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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Anyone agree............
What a false sense of reality our primary school children have,they are taught predominently by mentrual temperemental women. Not a dash of Male Hormone in sight..
Which is fine if you are of a farer Gender.
But what if your not.?

My eleven year old,made this comment this week: "Mum Why do we have to be taught by lady teachers they are always nice to the girls, and not us the boys".


Sure I have read a couple of articles about this.
maybe all primary schools should have a certain percentage of male staff. to put a more normal prespective on things..

I would appreciate a PH prespective on this Thanks....


jess

D_Mike

5,301 posts

271 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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I think that it's hard to find men who are interested in the job.

edit: and not sex offenders.

>> Edited by D_Mike on Friday 24th February 20:51

deevlash

10,442 posts

268 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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Id agree, secondary school was much better when there was some male input IIRC. I didn't have one male teacher throughout my primary education and surely that is wrong. Shouldn't there be some positive discrimination to encourage males into the profession? there is for almost every other job where the bias is the other way round

Lois

14,706 posts

283 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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I know one young lad who's just qualified as a primary school teacher.

I went to two primary schools and there was one male teacher at both but I never got taught by either, also just found out that one of the left my school and 2 of his previous schools due to inapropriate behaviour with the childred Mum never thought to tell me that before now!
My mate headteacher also left due to inapropriate behaviour but that was with my nextdoor neighbour not kiddies!!

Mrs BlueCerbera

2,208 posts

271 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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jessica said:
Anyone agree............
What a false sense of reality our primary school children have,they are taught predominently by mentrual temperemental women. Not a dash of Male Hormone in sight..
Which is fine if you are of a farer Gender.
But what if your not.?

My eleven year old,made this comment this week: "Mum Why do we have to be taught by lady teachers they are always nice to the girls, and not us the boys".


Sure I have read a couple of articles about this.
maybe all primary schools should have a certain percentage of male staff. to put a more normal prespective on things..

I would appreciate a PH prespective on this Thanks....

jess


I kind of agree, certainly when i was looking for primary schools for my eldest last year I spent time looking through the teacher lists to see if (and how many) male teachers there were. One of the many reasons I chose his school was because of the male headmaster and proportion of male teachers (higher than some i'd looked at). I think it's pretty important for young lads to have good male role models around them, something which is hard to find in primary schools as the teachers are mainly female.

Having said that, I'd be concerned if I thought that any teacher was being nice to only one sex, and I'd also be concerned if schools were forced into ensuring a certain percentage of a particular gender of teacher.

I do notice though, when I've spent time in the school that (certainly in the reception year), the girls do seem much nicer than the boys


R988

7,501 posts

260 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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Your entirely correct of course.

The problem is most men wont go anywhere near children these days due to all the pedophilia victimisation that is thrown at any man within 50ft of a child that isn't his own. The risk just isn't worth it for most men, not to mention most schools now seem to be run by men-hating feminists who want to keep it that way.

planetdave

9,922 posts

284 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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Oh c'mon - it's a nurturing job like nursing and thus girly territory.

Gender differences are real and not to be discouraged.

Next thing you know girlies will want to be driving big V8 that are obviously beyond their abilities

Mrs BlueCerbera

2,208 posts

271 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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D_Mike said:
I think that it's hard to find men who are interested in the job.


Definitely - I don't think it appeals really, especially primary school teaching

Mrs BlueCerbera

2,208 posts

271 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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planetdave said:

Next thing you know girlies will want to be driving big V8 that are obviously beyond their abilities


that could be disasterous

Edited to add: Did you get your name from the Q Pootle 5 book by any chance ? The one with the bladder monsters ?

>> Edited by Mrs BlueCerbera on Friday 24th February 20:59

bluespanner

3,383 posts

254 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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jessica said:
My eleven year old,made this comment this week: "Mum Why do we have to be taught by lady teachers they are always nice to the girls, and not us the boys".





just you wait, in 5 years time, hell be paranoid that some really old tarty english teacher fancies him...
[speaks from experience]

john75

5,303 posts

278 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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Gosh this is so true thinking back to Primary days we only had one male teacher out of 4 teachers in total

wedge girl

4,688 posts

270 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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There are plenty of activities outside school, where children can interact with males, these can also be done under the supervision of parents.

My Daughters have a Male gymnastics teacher and a male Karate teacher, there are also, football, rugby, cricket and swimming clubs all with male teachers.

How about the cubs/scouts/boys brigade? Plenty of traditional 'male' skills there.

leftie

11,838 posts

266 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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The western world is now feminised. Soft fluffy, caring, emotional, talkative, aromatherapy fuelled castration.

What happened to gut barging, couldn't give a stuff, holding it all in till you explode blokes?

I blame the blokes; we are all too busy worrying about upsetting the women and not getting any, or worse being nagged, that we have given up being blokes for an easy life and the occasional bit of sausage hiding practice.

Must go, I think I can hear the wife coming.

simpo two

93,062 posts

296 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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Good point. Shouldn't half the teachers be male to comply with the Sex Discrimination Act?

john75

5,303 posts

278 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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When I was studying a Levels we had a guy who was doing a childcare NVQ course not sure what happened to him but should have helped the gender balance a little bit.

leftie

11,838 posts

266 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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simpo two said:
Good point. Shouldn't half the teachers be male to comply with the Sex Discrimination Act?


Another piece of softie caring legislation for people without balls.

baskey

14,291 posts

257 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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you'd have to be so brave to be a male primary school teacher. tell some little b4stard off and the next minute you'll be on the rock 'n' roll after being had up for alleged kiddy fiddling. any bloke who is willing to risk that deserves more wonga than a secondary school head of maths in my book.....!

love machine

7,609 posts

266 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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I wish I had done primary teaching as a job. Secondary is harder work with kids who aren't that bothered. Plus, come hometime, the quality of the milf is much better! ing oath! Jeez, I did some primary observation and christ, if you're a single male, you're not going to be able to concentrate on the job.

Parents evening is something else. ing hell, you've got to be gay to keep the conversation on task!

Primary for men is a good route to leadership ££££ as most of the teachers (women) are not interested in promotion (more work). That's what I heard at the local primary.

jessica

Original Poster:

6,321 posts

283 months

Saturday 25th February 2006
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planetdave said:
Oh c'mon - it's a nurturing job like nursing and thus girly territory.

Gender differences are real and not to be discouraged.

Next thing you know girlies will want to be driving big V8 that are obviously beyond their abilities


Slapping hand at the ready David!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Parrot of Doom

23,075 posts

265 months

Saturday 25th February 2006
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I've often thought about being a teacher (backup career kind of stuff). I filmed a guy teaching German to 7-10 year olds recently, he was one of the most amazing teachers I've ever seen. He was awesome.

This whole 'nurturing' thing is really just boll0cks IMO, both men and women can do just as good a job as each other.