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"Our schools need tough guys teaching teenage boys, not feminised men changing infants' nappies"

Mastodon - Thu, 2012-08-02 17:20

Article here. Excerpt:

'Michael Gove wants male role models for boys and better discipline he says. Yet, yesterday he let his civil servants knock back a Free School application that offered just that.

Mr Gove has also said he wants more male teachers. He is right, they are needed. To our cost, teaching has become a female-dominated profession in both secondary and primary schools. Fewer than one in four recruits are men. Only 25% of teachers are men and it is set to get worse as the profession sheds older members.

The three main teachers’ unions too are led by women. The simple fact is that this is not a great environment for men to work in. With the elimination of so many single-sex schools, boys today can go through their entire schooling without ever being taught by a man.

This is quite, quite wrong. I would go so far as to say it is a disaster. No wonder so many of our young men are in crisis, out of control, on drugs and unemployable.'