I was reading this article about how young men are put off from becoming teachers for fear of false accusations of abuse.
I can't help but notice that there's no real plan in place to tackle this issue, there's nothing the government is going to do to protect men in those cases, they'd just like young men considering becoming teachers that 'this is a tiny number of people who have undertaken these dreadful acts".
Wow, just wow.
Isn't it funny how, when there are "a tiny number of people" doing dreadful acts to women, then laws get put in place to protect them. If, however, the dreadful acts are affecting men, men just need to be aware that it's not ALL children, just a "tiny number" of them.
Does Ms Rankine (a woman) not realise that it only takes a single accusation to ruin a man's career and life? Would you trust your family's financial well being on a career that could be ended by one false accusation made by a single child with a grudge?
I believe that the number of male teachers will continue to drop and is only as high as it is because it's riding on the backs of men who have been teachers for many years as this other article shows.
The simple truth is that attempting to convince men to just ignore the potential for personal and economic devastation is just one step shy of shaming men for not doing so. They can pretend all they like that it's not that big a deal, but clearly it is.
If the first step in resolving a problem is admitting that we have a problem, I think we've got a long way to go on this problem...
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