Analysis Of Come Back Mr. Chips By Julie Sceflo

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In an article released on; September 17, 2007, by Newsweek titled “Come Back Mr. Chips” by Julie Sceflo, Sceflo expresses some repercussions of not having an equally balanced male and female teaching staff. Sceflo establishes that some students do not have male role models in their live thus leading to; lower male graduation rates, falling behind in reading, writing and, students categorizing teaching with women. To change subjects, Sceflo writes there are some factors that may lead to the reason(s) male teacher’s numbers counties to diminish such as but not limited to, the salary, stereotyping feminine or emotional male teachers as homosexual and, men who express physical affection could be judged as a pedophile. All in all, the teaching

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