there's a high risk of being misidentified as a pedophile.

These days, yes, I would agree with you that's an issue, because of how messed up society has become. But

Men don't want to work with children

this is patently false. And, frankly, one of the main reasons society has been degenerating. For thousands of years, up until maybe the last 100, 150 years, men were very involved in raising and educating children. Now - especially in poorer, urban areas - you've got a ton of young men who get to high school if not later before seeing any potential male role models, while they have increasing numbers of the "man bad, woman good!" feminazis raising them.