to think its great my friend's 18 year old wants to be a reception teacher?

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And that he should encourage him all the way and not tell him that its a women's job and he should become a plumber or electrician because that's what proper blokes do?

His son is a clever and sensitive young man and all he's ever wanted to do since he was in his early teens is teach but his dad is positively pushing hi away from it. Their mum is not on the scene so she can't / won't step in and I know I cant interfere but he's now talking about not applying for the teaching course he wanted but doing an apprecticeship instead because its what dad wants :(

That's such a shame. It'll be harder and expensive to take time out to retrain further down the line when he might have kids so he could end up stuck in a job that makes him miserable because it's not what he really wants to do. I so hope the dad will see sense.

When I went to school in England in the '50s, almost all the teachers were men. There was only one female teacher, a nun, and the principal was also a nun.

I'm sure there have been many learnéd studies on why this gender reversal has happened.

I think it's great that this young man wants to be a teacher.

Yes we had a few male teachers. Things seem to have went backwards. But I suspect this is more to do with the status and pay of teachers declining over this period.

My youngest sons teacher is a young man, and he has just been off since Easter as he broke his collar bone.

Today is his first day back and my son and the others where positively ecstatic in the yard!

I saw him when he started as a supply a few years ago, and he is a natural, I can see why the kids love him.

Please do encourage him to do it. My eldest son has a teacher who is so disinterested this year, she is awful, but last year had a male teacher who he adored.

Enthusiasm counts for so much.