Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“A good example of one of Janice’s observations in her excellent essay is this story. For behind it is the assumption that somehow all males are suspect predators, so this man’s simple kindly action became a “safeguarding” issue in a way that the same casual assistance by a female Ofsted inspector would never have been. The man is assumed to be “guilty” even though the Judge finally ruling on this says he can’t find anything that says there is a “rule” to be broken. In other words the man was found to be “guilty” and sacked even though in fact the employer didn’t know what he was guilty of! In such an atmosphere where one can lose a job and be labelled a threat to children without even doing something against the “rules” it is no wonder the teaching profession finds it hard to recruit men!”

The teaching profession has for decades been edging ever closer to a female monopoly.

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