Feminized NZ education
Good to see someone within a teacher training institute finally going so public and stating the obvious.
I thought about teaching in nz after qualifying in 2002.
Asking the director at Unitec what she was doing to correct the imbalance in teachers only got me a gloating “Yes we know women dominate this profession” response.
She could care less.
Too bad. nz’s loss is other places gain.
Shit pay, underparented (most often fatherless) indisciplined teens, malicious fems looking to cut you down at every turn, and the suspicion you’re sexually predacious. I saw it all close up.
You can keep it.
I’m worthy of much better…….
and getting it as an ex-pat elsewhere.
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How about affirmative action to get male teachers? Well, they already score high enough. Well how about more money? No. Can’t give more money to males to teach, for women would not like that! Well what are we to do as the society gets worse? More social engineering I’m afraid. When something doesn’t work try reprogramming them younger and taking more wealth out of the individual male’s poacket. Then they will warm to being reprogrammed. Not!
I recall a one news special on men in early childhood – the government Minister concerned was contacted about imbalance.
The Minister was quick to acknowledge it as an issue, but assured that a new advertising campaign would be addressing it within a month or so.
The reporter noted the specific date given had by this point well past – but later a new advertising initiative was carried out.
The new initiation which would ‘address the problem’ featured one male in the imagery – being not more than 20% evident – ie out-numbered in imagery over 4:1.
However! Talk to people – overwhelmingly women – in the industry now and it seems, and outside of the political machine, there is a very great interest in having more men involved in early childhood education.
Some of this is simply lip-service, but while I’m male and have had opportunity to associate with quite a number of female teachers, I am quite certain that men are very much welcome.