Teachers Union Angry Over Hiring of Foreign Educators - (CA) Filipino teachers taking jobs

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[chance33_98]

Teachers Union Angry Over Hiring of Foreign Educators The Sacramento City Unified School District has hired 24 teachers from the Philippines. It's a move that's not sitting well with members of the Sacramento City Teachers Association.

Some of the Filipino teachers taken the place of instructors with emergency credentials, but several of them some are still not in the classroom, although they're being paid teacher's wages.

School district spokesperson Maria Lopez said the district went to the Philippines to hire credentialed teachers with five or more years experience in science, mathematics and special education. Twenty-two of the teachers have arrived and all but eight are in classrooms teaching.

Noly Balbastros, who taught special education students in the Philippines, is in a classroom at Nicholas Elementary School in Sacramento. He is finding teacher training and classroom technology more sophisticated than in the Philippines. Balbastros said he likes the challenge and plans to attain a clear California teaching credential. "I'm looking for it and staying here, he said."

Manual Villarreal of the teachers union claims the district let go of U.S. trained teachers with temporary credentials in order to make room for the Filipino teachers. He contends the district doesn't have the classroom facilities to give them all classes.

The district says classroom placements should be finished in the next week, once all the teachers have been oriented to the district. Some of the newly-hired did not arrive until late August.

The Filipino teachers have one year to take and pass the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST) to obtain a California teaching credential.

The Filipino teachers were hired as part of a district-wide initiative to have 100 percent of teachers fully credentialed. The district wants to complete the conversion process before state and federal regulations mandate the change.

[chance33_98]

Edubucation Ping

[Psalm 73]

Ha, Ha - now they're caught once again in thier hypocrisy (sp?).
Now they are "anti-immigration" "xenophobic", and "anti-diversity"?

[chance33_98]

Yes indeed - it's only ok when it affects you and me :)

[glc1173@aol.com]

Maybe now that the NEA fears job competition from aliens, Washington will find H-1(b)s intolerable.

Educationally speaking, are Filipino teachers even fluent enough in English to be understood by Americans? After all, Filipino RNs speak English - but with an accent or dialect making it near-impossible for Americans to understand!

English un-fluency of Asian immigrant profs even became a political issue in Pennsylvania between 1982 and 1992 - when legislators, besieged with complaints from parents of state-university students taught by profs and grad students who barely spoke English, actually considered legally requiring English fluency to teach at a Pennsylvania state university.

DeportemallletAllahsortitout!

Get the sticker!

[Conservative Kay]

They're so big on letting every one into the country ,legal & illegal. The teacher's union has always been real generous with the jobs in other sectors that are taken or pay being slashed because an illegal will do the job for less? They didn't care about that. Now they want to gripe because they're jobs are being taken. Serves them right.

[chance33_98]

Ping to the bump-lists

[Dubh_Ghlase]

Yupper! Huge teacher shortage, but they won't risk (union) jobs to "help the children". Excuse me, NEA, your hypocracy is showing!

BTW: NEA doesn't like us homeschoolers either. A childs fanny in a government school seat at morning roll call is money in the bank to them. Who cares about education? It's the money, stupid!

[GailA]

H1B visa's at work. I love it, the libs getting back what the tech sector has been enduring. Que..can they speak ENGLISH??????

[cynicom]

I cant wait til we bring in foreign politicians.

[chance33_98]

Maybe I will write them in during the next election. What's that taco bell dog's name...

[Always Right]

What happened to all the 'inclusive' BS that the teachers shove down the throats of the kids?

[freebilly]

They can't do a worse job than is currently being done in brainwashi... I mean EDUCATING California students....

[damncat]

English is the official language of the Philippines educational system. My Filipino friends consist of doctors, nursing instructors, and many engineers. They may have slight accents and not one can say gas station grammatically correct (they call it "the gas ah station) however to categorize them as non English speaking emigrants, is an erroneous and contemptuous libel.

The hypocrisy of the teachers union on this issue is blatantly obvious. Especially considering that many programmes in California teach in Tagolog to accommodate the large number of Filipino citizens.

Mastering the English language is hard enough for Americans, why chastise others for not doing what most Americans can't master themselves?

Katzilla

[Mr. Thorne]

Yeah! And, last night on Fox (either the Fox Report or O'Reilly), they had the story of the California schools saying that homeschoolers are breaking the law, 'cause those kids MUST show up at a publik skool.

If idiocy were flammable, California would spontaneously combust.

[B4Ranch]

Any of this happening in Fla?

[B4Ranch]

It's tough when your own snake bites you! They are finally learning about reality, aren't they.

[MissAmericanPie]

It would be very funny, but the fact is the children will not be able to understand a word being said to them, math and science is hard enough for kids to learn without the added burden of not being able to understand a foreign accent coming from the instructor. Of course this is California and no one speaks English there anyway.

I read a post this am that Mexico City is closing a number of public schools due to zero population growth.