1.   A shortage of male teachers in elementary grades has long been discussed as a national problem, but until recently day-care centers remained the unquestioned province of women.

2.   Clemson University, a public research institution in South Carolina, may have stumbled on a solution to the male teacher shortage.

3.   Critics pointed to a somewhat similar case involving a male teacher.

4.   Every male teacher I was assigned had a paddle hanging on his wall and some had more, allowing them to choose the instrument of pain.

5.   Hiring male teachers is a challenge, due to low salaries, gender stereotypes and reported incidences of impropriety linked to men who work closely with children.

6.   It found rampant cases of verbal and physical harassment by male teachers.

7.   It found schools where male teachers routinely made suggestive remarks about their female students.

8.   Most male teachers opt to work at middle schools or high schools.

9.   Nevertheless, local gyms are eager to hire male teachers.

10.   She needed the male teacher to show her the board.