The Press
Shortage of male teachers is here to stay
Letter to the Editor
by G G Vince MacDonald, (
Sir--I'm
a male teacher with seven years experience with at-risk students. This shortage
of male teachers is here to stay while good men remain vulnerable.
An entrenched group within the profession encourages the suspicion. Peter Ellis
is merely one case in point.
Male teachers' fear and lack of confidence is an extension of an intentional political
agenda that has allowed boys to become an underachieving group generally, while
girls are raised up.
For the male, teaching is no-man's land.
Machine-gunned from the trenches of political correctness, men can be mown down
by accusations from female students, male students, pre-schoolers and by female
colleagues alike, even decades later.
In many female schools men are not generally welcomed. The education
environment is hostile and, further, nothing truly concrete is being done to
make the workplace safe.
The biggest enemy of progress in the profession is the enemy within.