Posted on 10/07/2019 9:28:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Joevie Alvarado became a teacher, she never expected to teach American students 7,600 miles away.
But a dire shortage of US teachers means some schools are taking drastic measures -- like hiring teachers from half a world away.
"For the first year, it's a little bit of a struggle because I'm the kind of person who misses family that easily," said Alvarado, who taught for a decade in the Philippines before moving to Arizona.
But "in terms of pay, let's just say my previous pay was multiplied by eight or 10 when I got here," she said. "So having that kind of pay, it enticed me to be here."
Some parents may be surprised to learn their children are now being taught by international teachers.
Tom Trigalet, who was principal at Casa Grand Union High School when Alvarado was hired, said there's not much choice.
"When you really don't have any other applicants, how are you going to fill those spots?" Trigalet said. But hiring teachers from overseas is only a temporary fix to a widespread problem.
A nationwide crisis
Across the US, schools are hemorrhaging teachers while fewer college graduates enter the profession.
In 2018, the US had an estimated shortage of 112,000 teachers, according to the Learning Policy Institute.
Arizona alone had 7,000 teacher vacancies going into this year, said Joe Thomas, president of the Arizona Education Association.
Some of those vacancies are filled by people who don't have a standard teaching certificate, he said. Others are being plugged by long-term substitutes, contracted agencies or teachers who must add an additional course to their day.
So schools like Casa Grande Union High have hired several Filipino teachers using J-1 visas. Those visas allow teachers to stay in the US for up to five years.
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ahh, the old H1B visa rears it’s head again.
if this goes like the tech industry you can kiss the public sector teachers unions goodbye and the US born teachers... I wont even get into what these people will be teaching US kids... thanks liberals
What better way to teach American children to hate America and Americans?
Declare that having taught the subject at community college for a year (and being a US citizen or already being green card holder) is a valid substitute for "education major" teaching credentials, and counts as a year of teaching experience for seniority purposes. The "tech shortage" will go away immediately.
Our local district gets an average of 300 applications for every opening on serious subjects.
Will they be compliant with teaching LGBT and Trans to Kiddegardners?
That's what the new 'trannies library readers' are being groomed to be. The new teaching brigade. Scary, but seems to be happening. Acclimate the youngest to wierdness to have a generation grow up thinking that's the norm.
Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century. Their primary function today is to offer free daycare for parents that have sold themselves into indentured slavery.
A few years ago, the Cleveland Public School system made a push to hire from India all kinds of teachers. At the time, I was unemployed and my sister who had retired from that school system after 31 years, tried to get me an interview. Forgot to tell you that we’re both “white”.
I never got a phone call for an interview and they wanted nothing to do with me even though I was qualified to teach English and Math.
Well, they hired lots of Indian teachers, put them into the classrooms where they were disrespected by staff and students and eventually (and quite soon) every one of them quit the school system. They were NOT ABOUT TO HIRE ANY
“WHITIES” NO MATTER HOW QUALIFIED OR AVAILABLE THEY WERE.
My daughter is a teacher.
She is currently teaching at a charter school. She has had many interviews with public school systems within a 250 mile radius, but has never been hired.
Mysteriously those jobs always end up going to some relative of a school board member.
The H1B teachers I have heard of were teaching in inner-city Baltimore or Detroit combat zones where likely you could not get anyone local to take the job.
Hmmm, STILL *the* solution: eliminate property taxes & the govt ‘education’ monopoly, return to ‘user pays @ time of service’
THEN, you’d see that the Free Market will *solve* this pesky little ‘problem’.
A good friend of mine learned all too well about teaching gigs and nepotism.
I forget the details after so long but the local politics in that town upset quite a few locals.
Plenty of teachers, classrooms, and money if 40 million illegals were gone.
I taught for a few years. Sad to say but if we instituted your plan a lot of kids would never see the inside of a school.
It wouldn't be if they would tap the reservoir of retired scientists and engineers who would be willing to do part-time stints, and drop all the "ed biz" pablum.
I’m100% for this....and continous background checks criminal/emotional and psycho.
RE: I wont even get into what these people will be teaching US kids.
My understanding is the shortages are in the subjects of Math and Sciences.
You can’t BS these subjects unlike history.
A shortage at the wages they are paying. What they are dong is pricing Americans out of the market who pay $100,000 to get a teaching degree. They hire foreigners that pay a fraction of that for the “degree”.
Probably not a bad idea.
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