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There a few male preschool teachers because of the threat of accusations and prejudice. I work in schools, you're told not to be alone with children. You can wo
by Already__Taken 11y ago
There a few male preschool teachers because of the threat of accusations and prejudice. I work in schools, you're told not to be alone with children. You can work 10 or 20 years to get into your stride teaching in lower school and it can be all undone in one bad press piece. It's a massive problem.
- Cthulhu_ 11y ago^this; after a large child abuse scandal in an Amsterdam day care, male day care employees were scorned, distrusted, frowned upon, etc, and a lot of them either lost of quit their jobs. The sexism is real, and that industry doesn't get as much pressure to increase diversity either - mostly because their customers (i.e. parents) pressure the day cares into discriminating based on gender, either directly or indirectly by taking their children elsewhere. That just doesn't happen in IT. Nobody cares by who software was written, as long as it does the job right - as it should be. Real tolerance is not worrying about the demographics of people in a certain industry.
- orangecat 11y agoI agree that the paranoia of adult males being around children is ridiculous, but are there really that many men out there who totally wanted to be preschool teachers but decided not to for that reason?