[Ammi]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

By the way the truth, you do realise that modern feminism would be in favour of there being more male teachers. So it's pretty absurd that you mistakenly believe it's somehow at fault here.

..I haven't got time atm to read through this thread so I'll try to do that later but I will agree with Claudia...in Primary Schools especially, there are very few male teachers...and the reason for that is because very few males want to teach at primary school level..that is a shame and it is improving a little..mainly because the age groups of a lot of primary schools is expanding to include older children with the 'two tier system' ..this means that there will be more male teachers in the lower Keystage groups ...but they still prefer not to teach the younger ones...Reception, years 1, 2 and even 3...this is a choice of male teachers themselves and their personal preference and the ones I have spoken to, which is quite a few, make this choice because they find it difficult to relate to very young children and very frustrating because of a more immature understanding....


...fortunately, we have many, many extremely experienced and willing female primary school teachers which compensate for this and the male teachers are also extremely effective and experienced with the age group they teach....