When I look at a range of issues affecting men and boys in our country, not only does nothing much happen politically, but there is a blindness to the problems in the first place.
Never more so, when it comes to lack of male teachers. National policymakers, government and educationalists do not seem to want to do anything about it – even though four in five current or former teachers (81%) think it is a problem.
At the present time, 35% of secondary school teachers are male, as are a mere 14% of primary and nursery schoolteachers, and 2-3% of early years’ teachers. In fact, 30% of primary schools have no male teacher at all. Boys are also behind girls at every stage of education.
I therefore conducted a short survey to see if current and former teachers thought it was a problem as I do too and what were the reasons.
