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I just sent this to a friend who is one of the small proportion of male teachers in a primary school, turns out he just resigned because of the trust.
Thinking back many many years, I can't think of any male teachers in primary and an awful lot of the male teachers at my secondary school were either bastards, wankers or weirdos. There were some decent ones but I have no uplifting stories of them being inspirational (ex pupils of my Mum's say she definitely was), although I should have listened to Mr Benson about going to Oxford to do Geography. Asking teachers to be good role models to combat "toxic masculinity" seems like another example of what my Dad called "the elastic curriculum" - some politician would get it in there head that something nerds doing and punt it onto the schools as if they have all the time and resources in the world.
My key male role models growing up were my Dad and my ex-uncle Norm. If the good examples aren't set at home then the schools have no chance.