Why 85% of the school teachers are white women?
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I am truly wondering where you have found this statistic? I have not seen that this is true in any sense
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They go into elementary education because they like kids.\n\nPartly it is because there are more elementary/kindergarten teachers employed in schools than any other type of teacher so the job market is larger.
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um - im white so i guess i really cant answer that; however, i must say i've met plenty of white, asian, hispanic, etc women with quite an attitude!
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I don't think that teachers are 'cows'. Teachers deserve a lot of respect and they do not need or care much for what students say about them. I'm not a teacher, but the mentality of some students is ridiculous. Teachers give up a lot of there own time to make an opportunity of a propper education. What would be todays society be like without teachers??????\nThis doesn't answer your question, but it proves a point that teachers are not cows.
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I am in an Engineering Physics and Management program and I'm more of a tech head than a lot of the guys in my program. I think it's just what you were taught and what you were exposed to when you grow up. A lot of parents still have the stereotypes in their heads and they pass that on to their children without (or not without) realizing it. Even though we'd like to pride ourselves in having left all stereotypes behind us, they still exist today and they exist more readily in certain parts of the world than others.\n\nMen don't seem to be getting much more than women, it's a statistical fact that, on average, men are getting paid more than women. This is attributed to a number of reasons that include salary negotiation, the men to women ratio in higher paying positions and the men to women ratio in full-time and part-time positions.
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You are wrong. Society gives a lot of respect to teachers. What they don't give is a living (aka salary), as money is more expensive than respect.
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The problem lies in the victim attitude that ALL minorities have succumbed to.  They have put up with many forms of discrimination in the past, but as that is now disappearing they are grasping at straws to still remain the victim and receive their entitlements.  They don't want equal rights, they want things handed to them.  It's the liberal way.  Recently a black man at my husband's company filed a lawsuit saying he was being made to do work that white workers don't do.  The lawsuit was dismissed and he was discharged when it was proven that the white workers already knew the work he was doing and that it was part of his training.  You lose respect for a cause when it is being abused and unfortunately that is what is happening now.  Equal rights have turned into bullying and blackmail.
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Oh, but it is. Just not generally in this country. Go to any Western block European country and watch the teachers & professors are teaching out of doors, having interesting & lively conversations with their students in pubs, sitting on the campus lawns when school is out & having discussions, encouraging their pupils & enjoying their successes. Teachers here, as a rule, are competitive and arrogant. They don't truly love teaching or their students. Of course the school systems here are more difficult for them.
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I have known both males and females who were excellent special education teachers and both males and females who were terrible special education teachers.  The important factors are training, experience, committment, caring.  Gender is a  non-issue.
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yeh i do agree because teachers aren't too focused on motivating their students and standards are lower than they used to be. For physical ed, teachers dont care to teach that much, they just have the students play and assume that they know everything.
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I think there are a number of reasons for this.  Generally it seems that the powers that be don't really value work that was traditionally done by women.  Also, jobs that are perceived to deal primarily with child care aren't valued very highly.  There is a certain degree of resentment toward teachers because of vacation time (without making allowances for all the unpaid overtime).  Teachers themselves are by nature, caregivers, and sometimes don't get assertive enough in standing up for themselves.  \n\nIt is interesting that teachers in Canada are paid much better than in the US.  In many professions the reverse is true.\n\nThose are some of my thoughts on the issue.
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Which one?  There have been many teachers lately having sex with their students.
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First I think that 20% is a low estimation.  Second, teachers work incredibly hard to ensure that lessons are tailored to meet the needs of varying skill and ability levels.  Finally, even though teachers do what they can with the limited resources that they are given to work with, it remains difficult to reach all students (particularly with the levels of apathy at an all-time high).  There is nothing inherently wrong with the public school system.  The flaw however, is that not enough financial resources are put into a potentially great system.  With sufficient resources (financial, physical, and human), the percentage of students that would not understand their lessons would drop significantly.
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Women are doing a lot better in school these days. If that has any bearing on how bright their future is then I would say the girls have a brighter future.
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It probably depends on which service branch that you're in.  For instance, the Air Force is compromised of about 15% Black, 74.5% White, and almost 9% Hispanic.  I am African-American, enlisted AF, have a bachelor's degree (and my research paper away from my MPA).  I don't know if I've seen overt opposition to my pursuit of education, but I will agree that "the system" is not always favorable for minority advancement through education.
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Yes, ...Because Considering The Position That A Teacher In School Holds, They Are Not Suppose To Be There To  Downgrade & Intemidate Students....They Are There For An Example And To Upgrade And Prepare You Students To Be Productive For Society!...So, Yes!...That Teacher Is Not Valuble To The Students And Needs To Be EXPOSED & DISMISSED!!
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I can't answer for all white women but I care about other people because they are people.\nMaybe some women are more sensitive to others needs because we have had to fight against sexism so we can empathise more with a group who are being discriminated against.