If you're male and you want to teach, going into elementary education is one of the riskiest choices you can make. Our attitude has a distinctively negative att

If you're male and you want to teach, going into elementary education is one of the riskiest choices you can make. Our attitude has a distinctively negative attitude towards males in these domains -- men aren't supposed to want to work with children, and if they are, then they must be perverts and molesters. This attitude has gotten worse and worse over the years. A man being alone with a child is sufficient to cause a panic in a passer-by. And since we've raised children to be increasingly afraid of strangers -- which is another word for men -- we place men in a situation where their entire lives can be ruined by one mischievous child telling one fib. This is the society we've made, and I don't think a few initiatives here and there are going to change this prevailing (and institutional) misconception, at least not for a long time.