Why, or do, we have a shortage of male teachers in elementary schools?

The dire state of education in the Americas is not a laughing matter.

Teachers don’t make that much teaching so it would be more profitable for a man to find a job somewhere else, probably outside.

For a very long time, elementary school teaching was considered unmanly, and young men were discouraged from Pursuing it as a career. Kind of like nursing. That concept still lingers today, it is a major contributor to the lack of male elementary school teachers.

It may be partly due to men who are paired with children are often the first ones investigated if there’s an injury or accusation. (That’s not worded very well, lol) If I were a man I don’t think I’d want to work with kids. Sad. I think it would be wonderful to have more; there are so many kids with only one parent and it’s often a female.