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[–]Haylstorm 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Look how far out of the way male teachers often have to go to make sure they look cleaner than clean. Hell my bf has worked with nursery students and any men there aren't allowed to do certain tasks alone as a just in case precautionary measure to ensure both safeguarding and any accusations from crazy parents. Which makes sense but also makes it impractical to hire men for working with a young age range, which sucks for a fair few of the kids as they can miss out on a good male role model. I remember how excited the boys in my class were when we had a male teacher one year in primary school and how much it seemed to benefit them. They were way more engaged with the lessons for example.