hi, some of u may know that im a male kindergarten teacher from kuala lumpur, malaysia. my question is why some kindergartens (mostly all kindys) cant or wont hire male? please read it! it may sounds interesting after u read it! when i was unemployed, i called several calls from the kindergarents that wants to hire a teacher but as soon as i called, they said something that hurted me like "we cant hire male", "we wont hire male", "oh,so u the one who wants to become the teacher? sorry, we cant hire male worker" etc. AND the worse one is "we cant hire male . cause male dont have the love and care that a female can give to children!" whoa! thats just hurted me so much! after a few weeks, i saw a vacancy to hire a kindy teacher but i gave up cause i think they wont hire me like the previous one. but suddenly,a wind just blew me and i just changed my mind and called the kindy and the principal would like to meet me in person. so i went there and he said to me, "whoa! after hearing what u had said, u are quite impressed me! u love children a lot and u love teaching a lot too. i can see that u are a responsible and hardworking type of person. i hired a few teachers before (all females) and they just quite after a few months! i believe that u can work even longer!" i was like, "omg"! this is something that i wont expect a principal would told me but i was happy and im still happy right now. so, back to the question. why do u think some of the kindergartens or principals wont hire male? and what u think of it? a former male teacher (a year) a current male kindergarten teacher ( a year)
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Some of this may have to do with stereotypes about how males and females relate to children. Many people (not just kindergarten principals) think that parenting is essentially a female occupation, and that women naturally have a "maternal instinct" that is not duplicated in the male. The other issue is molestation. You hear a lot more stories about men who molest children than you do about women, and stepfathers seem particularly prominent in the news for molesting and abusing their stepdaughters. Therefore, a lot of people think that while women are maternal toward all children, men may be paternal toward their own offspring, but not necessarily toward other people's children. This may be the attitude of the principal, or s/he may be concerned about how parents will react. Many parents would not hire a male babysitter or leave their children alone with a male relative, so they might pull their children out of a kindergarten with a male teacher.
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Judging by your grammar, it has more to do with your intelligence than what is between your legs. If what you say is true though, you need to take legal action.
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i am not much sure about this thing,but i guess kindergartens like to hire females because of the stereotype idea that females are more delicate and caring and all,and that males are rough and not as worthy of being a kind kindy teacher. well,i think both males and females can make good kindy teachers<further proved by your example :) >
