This is something close to home for me, I have 3 boys, the education system doesn’t seem to cater to a lot of boys.

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    Yes one often missed thing is that teaching used to be a career with a lot more men, to the point you could have called it male dominated.

    If we doubled teachers salaries, would we start to see a swing back towards more men?

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      Maybe; but teaching in NZ is not seen as a prestigious career path.

      You would need to up the pay and tackle the view of teachers in wider society.

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        I’d suggest the low pay is part of why it’s not seen as prestigious. Pay teachers like we pay IT workers and I bet that attitude would change within a generation.

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          I agree; it would fix a bunch of issues.

          But it also needs to be competitive; basically only the best get the privilege of teaching the next generation. The qualifications for teachers need to be much higher than they are now; high salary and high entry requirements, with teacher aids to help that require a lower (same as today) qualifications. Similar to the medical system model where there is a surgeon with a bunch of highly qualified helpers.

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      You couldn’t make me go there just for the money. No way am I going to study 3 years just to become a teacher, when I can teach in a world class city like Moscow with only a minor qualification that takes 1 month to get.