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Do the math: Low pay keeps men from teaching.
Byline: Scott Travis
For 35 years, Clyde Harris has been a fixture _ and a rarity _ at his Delray Beach elementary school.
He's one of only three male teachers at Plumosa Elementary School. There are 41 women.
Harris, who keeps his students laughing with funny stories and analogies, is a father figure who teaches them how to do math problems and behave responsibly. He takes some of his students to Florida Atlantic University football games. District officials have recognized Harris as one of the top teachers for raising student achievement in math.
His principal, Sandra Byrne, would love to find more male teachers who could serve as positive role models.
"When you look at the pool of applicants, there just aren't many men in there," she said.
The same is true at Bennett Elementary in Fort Lauderdale. Only two of the school's 35 teachers are male. Whenever Principal Chris Carney finds a qualified male substitute, he tries to encourage him to become a teacher.
"We're constantly trying to recruit males," Carney said.
Throughout South Florida and the nation, it's harder and harder to find men in classrooms, particularly in the elementary school grades. While education has historically been a female-dominated profession, the number of male teachers has reached a 40-year low, according to a…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Do the math: Low pay keeps men from teaching.
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