[WinnipegFan]

All I am saying is that if you want to engage young males in education then you need male teachers they can relate to. This is simply attention grabbing advertising parading as activism. The University of Manitoba Education program has always been inferior to University of Winnipeg program. This is an attempt to gain ground using pseudo-activism. The school system is spending significant amounts of resources trying to reconnect their young male population and determine the causes for their disconnect. They need male teachers to role-model that the definition of maleness needs to change. Without teachers, who see them for a large portion of their day, role-modeling this behaviour they turn to other male role models and propagate a stereotype that is degrading to all of us. This type of limitation does nothing to serve this cause, and is ridiculous. There is no more a lack of teachers who identify with these causes than there is a lack of male teachers in the system, especially in the earlier years of education.

There this version edited after I had a coffee.