In response to how important primary school teachers are to the future earnings of children, I'd like to note that male teachers are in severe decline and are about as common as female CS majors.

alexsyc11 · 2010-07-31T14:27:19+00:00

The original article was almost surely based around this:

http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2010/07/28/how-much-is-a-good-kindergarten-teacher-worth-300k/

kanuk876 · 2010-08-02T04:07:03+00:00

FTA:

men may have a heightened fear of being accused of sexual assault.

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The NEA said it is doing all it can to interest young men to become a positive role-model and influence for the future.

The NEA has created recruitment programs which target potential male teachers before they even enter high school. The NEA is also working with its affiliates to encourage universities to offer tuition breaks and scholarship benefits for males interested in becoming teachers.

Yet they say and do nothing to change the pedophilia hysteria.

They expect men to accept the disastrous results of a false accusation. "Come put your reputation and career in the hands of children and teenagers, with no defense against a false accusation. Please?

We don't want to help you. But we want you to help us."

They're leading lambs to the slaughter.

greenhalagog · 2010-07-31T14:42:43+00:00

I'm about to enter my first year of college at an engineering school, and every information session I attended while trying to pick my school they told us the ratio of men to women in the field of engineering and said they would do everything they could to make this ratio more even. But I'm sure theres not exactly a public outcry for more male teachers, simply because it's men who are the minority in this case.

Feuilly · 2010-08-02T02:13:50+00:00

Men don't like low-paying jobs.

Teaching is a low-paying job. Less men go into teaching exactly for that reason, and coupled with male teacher = pedo culture almost no men go into teaching.

I'd say the #1 reason is still the paycheck, however. What young dude with dreams wants to go to college for 4 years (and maybe 2 more for a masters) to make 35K? If this were a better country, plenty - but we live in a capitalist culture that puts monetary value ahead of all other value - so the idiot football player is worth more in every way to our culture than the fantastic male 6th grade teacher.

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