How would you feel about having your young child in a school/daycare with female AND male teachers?
25 February 2010 18 Responses
A Parent asks, The preschool/after school program my sons go to have men employed as teachers, and it’s never bothered me. My kids (two boys) just adore them.
However, I’ve heard some of the other parents complain that they just dont’ feel comfortable with having a male teaching their preschooler or elementary schooler, for no other reason, that I can see, but that he’s a man instead of a woman.
Would you feel uncomfortable?
BTW, the school runs background checks on all employees.
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In todays world with the number of female teachers molesting their male students and what not, I believe that both sexes sometimes abuse their authority, so men or women it doesn’t matter, so long as their screened.
I would prefer both men and women as it give the child a chance to interact with both. Some children are missing a parent and it would help to give them a positive roll model as well.
If I were to have to place my child in a daycare at all…The fact that a man was working there wouldn’t bother me. Some men are better with children then women. But being they run background checks is great to. If however you ever feel odd about it. Make surprise drop ins or sit in a day or have someone else do it. You can never be to cautious with your child.
I wouldn’t, but I can understand some parents concerns.
However, given that women take advantage of their young
male students, it works both ways. Society just tends to be more suspicious of males I suppose.
i would have no problem with a male school/daycare provider. many men are as nurturing as females. if they have the want to deal with small children all day then i say more power to them!!!
I think it’s a very good idea for children to have male and female role models. as long as all the teachers are vetted you should be fine, women can abuse too!
I have no problem with it at all. Most men react very well with children. I have a good friend who is a male 2nd grade teacher. His class is the most successfule of 3 2nd grade classes at his school. He is more willing to be demonstrative in his teaching.
It’s a kind of good, when male students have male teacher and female students have female teachers, of course if boys and girls are not put into the same class. But if the teacher is a good teacher and a good one, it’s meaningless to think about genders…
Oh my goodness that’s disgusting. Men get such a bad press because of a minority of sickos who instead of being classed as criminals are now being excused as ‘mentally ill’. It’s horrific – if it was the other way round there’d be outrage because of inequality and all that jazz. Men have just as much of a place in a child’s life – they do kinda sorta contribute to life as well, what with the whole sex thing creating a baby, perhaps someone should point this out to the crettins who are objecting to their precious chicklets being looked after by a perfectly competent, non-criminal man. Women are not the only ones who can look after children. I know parents where the father is more competent than the mother, so why is it that people assume women are better with children as teachers? It’s proposterous.
I don’t understand this. I don’t think it matters because ALL schools do background checks. I don’t know why parents [mostly women I think] have such a problem. Last year in third grade my son had a male teacher. He was awesome! He was teacher of the year too. I couldn’t have asked for a better teacher.
I personally like the male teachers in the schools and in the after school programs. The schools do background checks on the PTA, of course they run checks on all employees. The male attention is great for all students. Kids need to see responsible males even if they have a great dad at home.
i would feel fine that is a prejudice remark by those other parents. The thought is men aren’t as nurturing and or they may molest. The thing is women can molest kids to. As you stated background check was done and that is the best you can do and hope your child is safe with a man or a woman
Never mind the background checks, you still hear sexual abuse cases here and there.
But it’s very stereotypical, intolerant, and sexist to be uncomfortable with men who want to take care of children just because they like children than to always have a lingering suspicion they might be pedophiles. Because of this preemptive assumption, it has many hampered the career or prospectful career of many men who want to be elementary school teachers or have a talent towards taking care of children. The great majority of men are not pedophiles and will not harm a child, but the constant stereotype and negative portrayal of a person typically a man around children always being a pedophile, hyped by the media, gives a distorted view of people based on gender. It’s sexism.
My son has a female teacher, she teaches Kindergarten, however there is a male Vice Principal, and he comes around the classrooms for support I think. I feel comfortable with that. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion. You are going to meet male and female teachers in Highschool and College/University. You are going to run into Male teachers. I have had 1 male teacher in grade 7 and I was ok with that.
No I would not feel uncompfortable.
I used to work in a daycare so I know that daycares do background checks. I worked with three men at the center
I worked at. My son’s were not in there class(es) but I would
not feel uncompfortable with those men working with my son’s
or daughters if I had daughters – even if I did not work with them because as you said daycares do background checks.
Wouldn’t bother me at all.
The after school program for my daughter is ran by a male and I’ve never had a problem with it and my daughter adores him.
Between media and society as a whole, it is sad and sick that people would assume the worse about a child care worker, or teacher who was male. It goes both ways. Women abuse children too. When my brother and I were young and my mom needed a babysitter for afterschool, she had hired two teenage girls. They locked my brother in his toy box or closet, sent me outside with the dog (one girl got bit by the dog when she lashed out at my brother) just so they could crank up my parents stereo and do drugs. The best babysitter my mom found after she fired the two bimbos was a fifteen year old boy. He let us play with his ORIGINAL star wars action figures (before they became collectibles), helped my brother with his homework and helped with mine and found ways to keep us occupied until my mom came for us after she got out of work. I ran into him recently. Kind of creepy, but we’re going on a date this weekend. I am now 30, he’s 37.
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