CRISIS IN BOYS EDUCATION - LACK OF MALE TEACHERS AT PRIMARY SCHOOL

The UK Government's Training and Development Agency (link) has revealed that more than a quarter of England's primary schools (5 to 11 year olds) have no male teacher (4,587) and in eight counties, there are more than 100 primary schools with no male teacher. Teacher colleges still are admitting three women for each man.

This is of real concern and is partly down to men being demonised as some parents think there is something odd or sinister (link) about a male primary school teacher. In addition, with so many boys living in households with no father or male role model, they are not receiving the discipline, empathy or male role model they need. This then feeds through into discipline problems and also poor results as boys specifically need challenge and discipline which male teachers can often be the best to instill.

This has been a regular theme on the site (link, link) and is a clear reason why there is a crisis in the education of boys in the UK. When will the Government and local eductaion authorities take some real action on this or are they happy for it to continue?

NB - The story was covered in the UK media (Daily Telegraph 1, Daily Telegraph 2, The Guardian, Daily Mail)

Comments

[John Kimble]

I enjoyed the Telegraph articles in particular. Was interesting to see how the government had a big list of things they were doing to improve the situation, yet of course they completely missed the biggest barrier - that of the demonisation of all men as sex offenders.

Obviously many peopel have contributed to the situation, bt it really is worrying to still have Patricia Hewitt in government who openly questions whether men can be trusted with children, and proposes to never leave men alone with children in order to prevent abuse!

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Perhaps promote having more male teachers. But honestly, it doesn't depend on the gender of the teacher the quality of education a child can receive.

[John Kimble]

Very true buy wow - however you need to consider how we as a society have excluded men from all aspects of children's lives - at home, at school or even when flying on a plane!

Men are some sort of alien species to some children, thus how are boys and to a lesser extent girls) supposed to develop normally if they don't see male role models and don't get to experience interacting with men?

Also if you want high quality teachers surely you need to recruit from the widest possible base? Perhaps women do indeed make the best teachers but there would be no way of possibly knowing this until we stop demonising all men. Right now men are artificially excluded from the teaching profession through stigma and sexism rather than due to any lack of ability.

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[Xxavier]

Few women in engineering, parliament, trades etc we are told equates to sex discrimination. We get a flurry of surveys and reports on how to change the sexist culture, attitudes and habits others.

Few men in teaching, nursing etc equates to blah who cares, you don't have to lobby to effect my chances of re-election. They institute a few recruitment campaigns to make sure things don't get too out of hand and people really start complaining.

Female:male graduates being 3:2 we are told by the AAUW that men are doing better than ever before. No worries her either, apparently?!

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