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Stereotyping, low pay, lack of role models. Why the number of men teaching in schools is at a 40-year low.
Sept. 17, 2007 issue - When numerous fellow teachers asked Josh Holt to mentor their students last year at Heber Hunt Elementary in Sedalia, Mo., Holt initially felt a burst of pride. It was his first year at the school teaching health and PE, and he hoped that he had impressed his senior colleagues. But looking around the school, Holt realized there was a simpler reason teachers and even parents asked him to be a "buddy" in the school's program for at-risk kids: he was born with a Y chromosome. "The principal is the only other guy in the school," says Holt, 24. "Some of these kids don't have any men in their lives, and they really need a male role model."
Why Male Teacher Ranks Are at 40-Year Low - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20657203/site/newsweek/ - broken link)
Funny thing about the timing of this. I was just talking to my DS15 yesterday and he only has ONE female teacher for 10th grade this year (who I thought was male because of her name). I was thinking it was odd having all male teachers. Our twins are in 7th grade and have about 1/2 male, 1/2 female teachers.
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