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What is your opinion of male teaching assistants
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I am a teaching assistant in a primary school and I have a friend (close-ish) that make jokes about it being an odd job for a boy so what is other peoples opinions on it ??
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We need more male assistants and teachers imo. It is a very female dominated work world and lots of kids have no male in their life out of school.
I was a Teaching Assistant in 1981 and half of them were blokes.
1) Still referring to you as a boy.
2) Being a knobend.
I think its ridiculous that people make jokes about it. Someones gender doesn't impede on their ability to that job. I think it is positive for children to have teachers (as well as assistants) who aren't always female. Maybe the kids will benefit from male influence. As for your friend, he needs to have a word with himself and realise that its 2014 not 1914.
Kudos to you for doing the job by the way
Don't really have one about males, specifically, but I think if you're old enough to be employed as a teaching assistant then you should be referring to yourself as a man, not as a boy.
This, really.
Yes I do agree with that statement
But why do people think that wtf
Don't give a jot what gender they are, and anyone who does probably has an issue of some kind.
the primary education system has be taken over by women eg 80% of schools have no male teachers
cos the PC nazis brand any man with young kids as as a pedo
Yeah it don't get me down or anything I don't take offense to it I just wondered what opinions are haha
Precisely!!
Also, I hope you tell them that you have a high level of job security, a decent salary, finish at about 4.00, usually, and have the 6 week holiday!!
Who is the daft one now? ;-)
I agree on all counts!
I agree with this statement as generally the TA's are women there is only one other male TA in my current school
I did a year's volunteering in a primary school when I was in 6th form and I loved every minute of it. It's a brilliant job, but doesn't pay enough for me.
Quite
Wonder if they have the same problem with male nurses
There wern't many male primary school teachers either but it was a lot more even at high school.
In a school where so many kid have difficult family lives and particularly a lack of male role models in the family home, it has certainly been a hindrance to have no regular male in school, you only have to see the way some of these kids hang off the football in the community lads to know how much they appreciate the little time they get to spend with male role models.
Good male teachers and TA's can have such a positive impact on the school and also for practicality reasons, an all female staff for trips out can be a nightmare when it comes to public toilets, having no male with us to check on them!
So it's great to have male teaching assistants in primary schools, they are very highly valued, I certainly find at interviews if presented with a GOOD highly competent male TA vs a GOOD highly competent female TA, if they feel the children lack a male presence in school, they would go with the male candidate.