Crisis in the classroom as number of men becoming secondary teachers plummets to record 35 per cent low while boys turn to toxic male role models in their absence

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'The number of men becoming secondary school teachers in the UK has fallen to a record low - sparking fears boys are turning to toxic male role models in their absence.

Shocking figures show the proportion of male secondary school teachers has dropped from 46 per cent in 1994 to just 35 per cent today.

Experts are concerned this could leave impressionable young minds susceptible to the twisted ideologies of figures such as self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate.

They are now calling for a targeted recruitment campaign to bring more positive role models for boys into the classroom, reports The Sunday Times.

While staff rooms were once closer to an even split of men and women, the number of male teachers has been gradually declining since the early 1990s, according to figures from the Department for Education (DfE).

The statistics are even worse in primary schools with one in seven primary and nursery teachers being men, though this figure has been low for many decades and hardly fluctuates.'