Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 9/24/2005 5:09:00 AM Author: Nicole Knock (nickdave1@hotmail.com) Subject: Males in EC Boy, oh man, do i wish that I had seen this in the year 2000. As an Expat Australian working in Viet Nam currently, I am caught between two cultures here. Men in EC in Viet Nam, I don't think so. Not yet anyway! In Oz, some of the best EC workers are men and I can say that with 15years experience in EC in Australia and now Viet Nam that we need more men. We need them for all sorts of reasons and its the same as we need quality EC women workers. For the stats, 80% of people who abuse children in EC are women. As we have more women in EC that figure is somwhat obvious, but for goodness sake, we dont need /want or should tolerate those women. We need quality people whether they are women or men. I honestly cant believe that we are still questionning why men are in EC as that was being questioned 15years ago. There were three dedicated guys in my college who dropped out of the EC course because of the pure ignorance of the Business, Communications students and Primary Teachers "bagging the hell out" of the EC guys. WHY oh why?? Man oh man, we need more of you and quality ones at that. Cheers and have a good day all!! Name: Email: Subject

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