Phil <br />Its funny you bring this topic up as we were just talking about it the other night.<br />Both my kids go to a private school and are both taught by male teachers, My daughter in year 8 prefers a male teacher over a female teacher any day as she is not used to it as back home (in South Africa) the private schools mainly have Male teachers and as for my son he also prefers a male teacher. He has his mother at home yelling at him and he doesn't want the same at school which did happen last year.<br />Here in Australia males are leaving the ranks in teaching and that is causing a problem, did you see the news if you got it up there that in Victoria the state schools which are prominently run by female teachers in the last 5 years has a record number of suspensions and expulsions against boys and when you interview the only male teacher at that school the teacher said Quote I have never had trouble with him or the others that have been expelled.<br />Now you ask the question why??? how can one teacher expel one young man when the other said clearly that he has NEVER had trouble with him<br /><br />Yes phil I saw that Video conference on Satellite, remember you gave me the Frequencies and it was very interesting and it is true. DON'T tinker with nature, there has to be a better balance between male and female teachers in any given school.<br /><br />MY sons last year at a private primary school he only had 8 male teachers out of 28 in total now thats not what United nations would call an unbalanced school. Its up to the Governments to address this matter before we have no more male teachers around especially in the public schools where this is worst.<br />Steve