Teacher of the Year: "Shut up and sit down! This ain’t no Crips, Bloods kind of nonsense. … You can’t talk it out, then get out."

We need more men in schools.

Posted by RedCarolina at September 30, 2011 6:21 PM

SURE, but if you are a man you have to have your head examined if you want to work in the schools these days. They are snake pits for men. No future there.

Posted by vanderleun at September 30, 2011 9:22 PM

That is true, Vanderleun. What we need even more fundamentally are segregated schools--by gender. The male teachers will make a comeback. So will the boys.

Posted by james wilson at September 30, 2011 10:03 PM

Red,

True dat.

Gerard,

Also true. Back in the early '80s I (as usual) needed a job, and was convinced by the "we need more men" line to take a job in a pre-school. I loved it, the largely fatherless kids loved it; the parents were ecstatic.

Two young women worked there. The pretty one was real happy about the whole deal; the angry one started undermining almost immediately, with the result that I got fired because "I had a problem with women."

Gals love it when you do the dishes, but God help you if you're a better cook.

Posted by Rob De Witt at October 1, 2011 12:29 AM