In America at least from what I’ve seen there’s very little correlation between being a good teacher and keeping your job. Keep in mind I quit before you start crying sour grapes. It’s nothing like the private sector where a job well done provides security. It’s completely willy-nilly.

Men shouldn’t teach elementary or lower and especially not preschool. That’s abnormal af. Elementary kids spend too much time with one teacher anyway but it’s motherly work so women should do it.

I think that's true for most jobs, not just teaching.

Maybe but not sales. If you can sell more than the next guy you’re golden.

Of the 5 professors I've had that stand out as great, only one of them is still teaching. Based on my experience, the longstanding community college professors are really worth their salt because they haven't killed themselves to get out of dealing with the local high school's unprepared grads.

Motherly work?

Please become erased from the psyche of humanity.

He's not wrong. Men can't breastfeed, except maybe Frownland.

Your teachers breastfed you?

Not until my dreams in high school. I had some hot teachers and subs.

It’s a nice way to say bitch work.

Here, parents get 480 days of shared, paid maternity leave after a child's birth and VAB (when a child is sick, the parent stays home and gets 80 % of their salary payed by the state for as many days as needed). So men and women are expected to share raising a kid . In the US, you guys have a joke of a maternity system..what is it, like two weeks and then kids are in preschool from six weeks ( edit :wait I was wrong, the US has no guaranteed, paid maternity leave)? It isn't a wonder there is a heavy expectation for women to raise the kids in the US and that carries on to gender expectations as you grow older.

Here, preschool is a recognized schoolform with its own state curriculum as is elementary ( unlike US curriculums which vary over the country). Teaching children about gender equality is stated in both and is taken quite seriously here. Unfortunately, there is a bias against males working with younger kids and the present influx of refugees/ immigrants from male dominated countries does not help things .

Ps And no, my friend was a good teacher. But he changed career paths .