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Desperate to fill teacher shortages, US schools are hiring teachers from overseas
CNN ^ | 10/06/2019 | by Holly Yan, Tiara Chiaramonte and Anne Lagamayo

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: helpwanted; hiring; nea; overseas; shortage; teachers
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To: SkyDancer

RE: Will be supplied with interpreters.

Filipino teachers don’t need interpreters. They speak English well ( with a Filipino accent which is intelligible of course ).


41 posted on 10/07/2019 11:04:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind
But a dire shortage of US teachers means some schools are taking drastic measures

They could hire retired people from the private sector, but that would screw up the union dues.

42 posted on 10/07/2019 11:07:18 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Typical. Supporting the usurpation of the USA’s work force.


43 posted on 10/07/2019 11:08:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Teachers from overseas might be smarter and care more. I dunno.

Yes, you don't know.

44 posted on 10/07/2019 11:10:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They pulled this same crap in Vegas. I read that there were no US teachers who qualified, even though teachers from all across the country applied. There were no shortage of skills among that group. They flew in 2 planes of teachers from the Phillipenes, who really did not qualify. The result was less education. Then they gave them taxpayer home loans at our expense.


45 posted on 10/07/2019 11:12:29 AM PDT by WWG1WWA ("Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius)
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To: Nuke From Orbit

Don’t forget to THANK PYLER v. DOE


46 posted on 10/07/2019 11:22:11 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: Nuke From Orbit

This country is finished as we know it. It looks like we are the country that lost the Cold War ideologically.


47 posted on 10/07/2019 11:30:31 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is a lot of work involved as a teacher. Many many things to manage while you are trying to get some information into the kids’ heads.

The lack of discipline in today’s kids is a game changer.


48 posted on 10/07/2019 11:30:37 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Didn’t read where they were coming from but yep, the speak English quite well.


49 posted on 10/07/2019 11:39:10 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SeekAndFind

We need conservative teachers


50 posted on 10/07/2019 11:47:08 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Nuke From Orbit
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

Foreign teachers have to be better than the Democrat-voting union scum that infests our school systems. They certainly can't be any worse.

51 posted on 10/07/2019 11:49:10 AM PDT by AlaskaErik
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To: SeekAndFind
My understanding is the shortages are in the subjects of Math and Sciences.

You can’t BS these subjects unlike history.

Apparently you haven't been reading about how Seattle is now approaching the teaching of math. Let's just say it's more of a history lesson about white sin and cultural appropriation than it is about math.

52 posted on 10/07/2019 11:53:17 AM PDT by AlaskaErik
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To: SkyDancer

English is spoked all over the world but that is not the problem or at least a concern. My experience with over 27 years in IT the H1B situation has destroyed the tech sector on so many levels it’s frightening to see how far the US has fallen. This is a situation where your not training some guy to replace you... its your kids. The US values have been under siege for some time and here come folks from (insert country here) and they are going to be teaching your kids. As some have posted there are subjects that are much harder to gloss over but the exposure and dedication the American way is what I see being a major problem. The folks I have worked around have had zero interest in becoming a US citizen a some I know have been here for years and the job was a conduit for bring everyone in their family tree here. The worst thing you can do is hand over your children to this type of environment that already is broken and then stop gap with people that do not have your counties best interests at heart. This should be on the level of national security but some asshat has it as a profit marker and numbers game.

I just do not see this being anything but completely wrong but dangerous. ….. steps off the rant box..


53 posted on 10/07/2019 11:54:22 AM PDT by Nuke From Orbit
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To: AlaskaErik

RE: Apparently you haven’t been reading about how Seattle is now approaching the teaching of math.

You mean 2 X 2 can’t be 4 because that would be a white man’s construct?


54 posted on 10/07/2019 11:56:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bunch of crap! Just another BS piece to keep qualified Americans out of the workforce and find compliant union types.


55 posted on 10/07/2019 11:57:41 AM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope those teachers speak clear and easy to understand English. Over the years, taking various courses, I have found it very hard, sometimes impossible, to understand what was being said in classroom lectures.


56 posted on 10/07/2019 12:03:42 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: cuban leaf

You are using sort of a broad brush for painting.


57 posted on 10/07/2019 1:38:55 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: i_robot73

No, private schools won’t be any better since they will be driven by exactly the problems as the government schools. Schools suffer mostly from parent lawsuits and other pressures more so than any other source.


58 posted on 10/07/2019 1:41:17 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: lodi90

Not bad, unless you’re a taxpayer. Of course, pensions and cadillac health bennies are a far bigger problem for taxpayers. Funny how those never get figured in when calculating what teachers get.


59 posted on 10/07/2019 1:44:07 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: lodi90

Except that the starting salary of an engineer is $85K per year. Explain why technology graduates would flock to teaching jobs? Ah, now it becomes clear why the teacher shortage is for STEM.


60 posted on 10/07/2019 1:44:19 PM PDT by GingisK
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