The very idea of male marginalisation was based on examples from the teaching profession. Miller used the declining number of men entering that profession as the base for his argument that men were being 'sidelined' in our society. Is it that this absence of men in our classrooms is compounding the absence of men in their children's homes and reinforcing this cycle of under achievment of boys? I really don't know of any research evidence available for Jamaica which helps us to answer this question definitively, but I am sure the Community would be very intersted in any examples of male teachers making a difference which may exist in our classrooms. Better yet, we would love to hear what men who teach boys think of this.