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South Korea: Law passed requiring 40% of teachers must be men
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2010-03-26 13:30
Original story in French here. Translation into English is here. It seems that in some Asian countries, politicians really want to increase the number of male teachers. Excerpt:
'The educational bureau of the city of Seoul pushed for a quota system to guarantee a certain number of men among teachers of primary and secondary schools in an attempt to prevent women dominate the profession, it was learned official sources, Wednesday, March 26, 2008.
In the Korean capital, women represent 83% of primary teachers, revealed the Municipal Office for Education (Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education), which will propose revising the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in the day.
According to Seoul City, the female raises one hand a problem for male students who do not find in their teachers figure "models" and secondly it generates problems of administrative management.
"To reduce gender disparity teachers, laws should be revised, which can be done by the Ministry of Education, said an inspector of schools in the city of Seoul.'
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Hmmm...
What would really be nice is finding ways to make it so men want to go back into teaching - ie, actually protecting us from false allegations and removing the tendency to view males that want to be around kids so as to be a teacher or caregiver to them as, by default, suspected pedophiles.
Now THAT would be real progress.
Wait til the feminists and misandrists get ahold of this idea. Will it get traction? They are pushing for the idea but it is not a law yet. When quota systems are set up for women, it's fine. When they are set up for men, it's foul. That's the way it seems to go all over the world, doesn't it?
Another reason...
... why the future is Asian - they're learning from our mistakes. Asia looks at the US and they think "Do we want to be like those dumbasses? Heck no! Let's get the blokes back into teaching so it's about being smart rather than feeling good, or we'll all end up working at McDonald's!"
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No deal
I'm against quotas so I can't support this.
I'm with you there, however
I'm with you there, however they could make the environment less hostile for male teachers. As Matt pointed out there is so much suspicion of men around kids and false accusations of abuse. People get offended at hands on type of male teachers but see the same behaviour in women as just being warm.
As far as the it "generates problems of administrative management" are they talking about a feminized classroom/student policy or are they talking about difficulties for male faculty?
manonthestreet I don't know
manonthestreet
I don't know enough about S. Korea to make a very authoritative statement about this. I find it difficult as I too do not favour quotas. On the other hand if there are to be such things then there should be quotas for men as well as women. Really I would rather not be in this mess at all but since we are I suppose this can be seen as more of a good thing than a bad thing.
Quotoas are here to stay...
Whatever motivates large number of Gents to act when they lose a job to a Hispanic or Black, doesn't seem to register when it just happens to be a woman.
We mights as well use the quota system to get our piece of the pie, because quotas for women are not going anywhere even with the numbers going in their favor in practically every indicator.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
This is WAR, plain and simple, and only a fool goes into a war refusing to use every weapon at his disposal. Like land-mines, quotas may be objectionable but as long as the enemy uses them we must too.
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