Prince George’s County schools hope to recruit more male teachers - The Washington Post: When Albert Lewis attended middle school in Prince George’s County in the late 1990s, he was shocked to walk into his eighth-grade history class and find a black man sitting behind the teacher’s desk.
Nathaniel Laney’s presence was a first for Lewis, who is now a teacher himself. Until then, he had never seen a male teacher outside of gym class.
Seventeen years later, not much has changed for students in Prince George’s County and in other classrooms across the country.
“It has actually gotten worse,” said Robert Gaskin, the school system’s director of human resources.
Hoping to devise ways for the school system to recruit and retain men, Lewis, Gaskin and more than 100 male educators filled the auditorium at Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Springdale on Saturday for the county’s first male educator summit.
