According to an article in The Telegraph by Graeme Paton, Education Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, Boris Johnson, the Tory higher education spokesman said men are being driven out of the teaching profession because of "paedophile hysteria",
Men are being driven out of the teaching profession because of "paedophile hysteria", said yesterday.
Gifted men were put off jobs in primary schools for fear of being wrongly accused of assaulting young children, he said. And the lack of male teachers at primary level was "potentially very damaging" to boys' education.
They needed more male role models at an early age but female primary teachers now outnumbered men by 13 to one. "We do have a kind of paedophile hysteria" he told the Independent Schools Council.
"A lot of potential brilliant male teachers think 'do I want to go through that malarkey about what I can and can't do? What happens if I bump into someone?' Young minds need the intellectual inspiration of a male teacher - not because males are any better than females but it may help if there is a male role model who can help with their intellectual development."
Acknowledgement: Daily Telegraph