Want to teach at Gitmo? Pentagon now hiring Part-time job serving children of military personnel

WND ^ | June 26 2014 | WND

[PoloSec]

(Washington Post) Live within “commuting” range of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba? Want to “work for an exciting educational organization?”

Great news! The Pentagon is hiring.

The Defense Department put out a notice Wednesday seeking substitute teachers on one of the most controversial military bases in the world. There are, according to the job posting, “many vacancies.” (You don’t say?)

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The part-time job teaching the children of military personnel pays $50.50-$100 a day. The base has an elementary school and middle/high school — both named for Rear Adm. William Thomas Sampson, who fought in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War — with about 200 students in all. School mascots are the Sharks and the Pirates.

[montanajoe]

So do you have a problem with this?

[OldNavyVet]

Live within “commuting” range of Guantanamo Bay

Long ago, my ship did a shakedown cruise to Guantanamo. While there, we had one opportunity to visit the nearest town; "Gitmo City."

Gitmo City was about fifty miles away by railroad and there was almost nothing outside the base other than the end of that railroad track.

[GreyFriar]

A friend of mine spent two years there running the Gitmo base library as a DoD civilian employee.

[Traveler59]

There are DoDDS schools all over the globe. I don’t know why they’d want to pick on this one. GITMO is probably one of the safest places to be stationed. Boring as heck, but safe.

[ops33]

I started first grade at the US Military school in Poitiers, France, in 1958.

[pfflier]

I attended DoD schools most of my pre-adult life (1956-1965). These schools have existed in almost all countries hosting US military bases. Why the snarky article?

[PoloSec]

My son attended DOD or Christian Schools K-12, in a few different countries, I never had a problem with those schools, in fact they were the best schools anyone could attend.  The article (as your comment suggests) had nothing to do with the quality of DOD schools or the fact they exist all over the world, you read into the article something that wasn't there.

I posted the article because I found it interesting, as it turned out to be much different than the title implied, now I find myself explaining that to some one who has obviously been overexposed to sensitivity training, now that's what you call snark.

This comment/question of yours (Why the snarky article?) although it may qualify as snarky, it better qualifies as ignorance.

 

[pfflier]

Newton's 4th law

For every action there is an over-reaction

My snark comment was for the authors of the original article not for you who just posted it.