Admiral Rockwell Tory
Diamond Member
We do need more men as teachers, but men don't choose those jobs because they don't pay enough. They are "pink collar" jobs, as are social workers. Predominantly women, so the pay scale is lower than other occupations requiring 5 years of college and ongoing professional licensure and training. Nursing, teaching, social work. All highly skilled fields with a big investment in education, making nowhere close to male dominated occupations in the private sector with commensurate educational/professional requirements . It is because they are "pink collar." Deny it all you like.
RN's make a ton of money once they get past the "need experience" hump. Teaching and social work often do not require specific degrees, and those that do require education degrees.... Lets just say the education majors at my college were only 2nd to the business majors when it came to going out 4 nights a freaking week.
Engineers, Accountants, Pre-Meds, we were lucks if we got our 2-3, and it was usually on an off night (wednesday) when we didn't have labs on the alternating thursdays.
Pardon me, but your information shows a bias to elementary and middle schools. High school teachers usually have a degree in a topic, and not in education. They take additional education courses for their teacher certifications.
For example, I have an undergraduate degree in one of my subject areas, and did not get my teacher certification in that subject and courses for my second certification until 14 years after that.
So you didn't go out 4 nights a week?
What was your subject area?
I started out as Aerospace Engineering, switched to computer science, but had to get a history degree for my commission because my scholarship was running out. I finished that entire history degree coursework in 3 academic quarters, taking about 21 hours each term.
So, no, you didn't go out 4 nights a week.
No. I went out exactly zero nights a week.