Male Preschool Teachers Face Skepticism But Earn Acceptance
Pictures of Michael Jordan and the Bulls basketball team may seem a bit out of place hanging alongside storybook characters on the wall of a preschool classroom. But then, the person proudly displaying them is a bit of an anomaly.
"Michael Jordan and the Bulls are part of Chicago, and part of the kids," explained Roberto Recio, an imposing man who presides over a class of about 20 3- and 4-year-olds at Christopher House, a social service agency in an ethnically diverse, low-income community on Chicago's North Side.
Mr. Recio, 33, is one of six men who make up 20 percent of the center's teaching staff. That percentage is noteworthy because nationally, men constitute less than 5 percent of the child-care workforce, according to Childcare Information Exchange ...
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