Male-teacher-positive article: "School 9 students fondly recall teacher as father figure"

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'Despite data showing a growing number of children in urban areas living without fathers or other adult men, male kindergarten teachers are a rarity in Rochester and nationally.

The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that men represent only 2 percent of 190,000 kindergarten teachers nationwide. That figure is slightly higher in the Rochester district, where seven of the 113 kindergarten teachers are men.

Researchers cite low pay, a cultural stereotype that teaching elementary school is women's work, and fear among men of being accused of physically abusing children.

"People think that men aren't nurturing, that men don't want to be with children, that men can't do it," said Bryan Nelson, the founder of MenTeach, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that supports male teachers."'