“My homeroom teacher is a man!” With a new year in a school, lots of primary school students expect who is classmate and homeroom teacher. If their homeroom teacher is a man, it is very unique case because according to an article of Jung-Ang Daily which published in October, 2008, female teachers are occupied about 90% in Korean elementary school. Because of this gender imbalance in primary school, the Seoul education tried to introduce the rule, quota for employing male teachers, which is that the schools have to select male teachers over 30%. People who insist this rule point out the problems that male students can build sexual identity by male teachers, the school need powerful guidance to lead students to right road, and the female teachers’ physical problem can be covered by male teachers. The quota for employing male teachers, however, is not necessary because of sexual identity, the role of guidance, and discrimination.

      First of all, the sexual identity of students is not built in the school but in the home. Children can have the first experience of society in their family relationship. In this, they can learn the gender role by observing what father do and what mother do. It means that the behavior of father and mother give the first image of gender identity to the children not the teachers behavior. Also, what the more influence thing to students of sexual identity is a sex education not the male or female teacher. Therefore, to help students build their sexual identity, the school should concentrate on the right behavior of their parents and the right sex education not the rate of male teachers.

      Moreover, powerful guidance of male teachers is not good for students. The guidance by using physical punishment can stop students’ aberration temporarily, but it cannot be the ultimate way to change behaviors of the students. For example, the Youth Right Center surveyed some high school students such as Pung-moon and Duk-sung high school about corporal punishment. This survey shows that most of students have resistance to physical punishment of authoritative teachers. The guidance in school has to start with communication between teachers and students, so prescriptive and coercive atmosphere of male teachers’ punishment is not a way to lead students in school life.

      In addition, it is a discrimination that the school evaluate some problems caused by female teachers such as a lack of extracurricular programs’ physical ability and ability of contract teachers because of regular teachers’ menstrual, maternity leave. Employing male teachers more for various extracurricular programs like a track meet or retreat is the way of looking down all people who prepare teacher certification examination. This is because selecting male due to the fact that he has better physique than female even though female has great grade in the test is one of the sexual discriminations. Also, underestimate of contact teachers who are hired because of regular female teachers’ absence is one of the class discriminations and this is unfair.

      The school is the place where teaching students for the better future of our society. Therefore the schools have to concentrate on not how to balance female and male teachers’ ratio but how to teach and guide students to right path. Also, hiring male teachers for helping boy students form sexual identity by male teachers, leading students by physical punishment, and separating female and male teachers by using physical differences and contact, regular teachers is not a necessary way for the students.