Posted on 05/14/2018 10:02:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
LAS VEGAS – Adrian Calabano, 23, left his native Philippines to fill a void of teachers in a Nevada suburb. He said he sold his car to pay for his flight and hefty administrative fees so he could get a salary several times higher than he would receive in his homeland.
But his salary is still lower than an average American teacher. He was hired to teach sixth grade special education class at Greenspun Junior High School in Henderson, Nev., a suburb of Las Vegas.
“My salary is much better than what I receive and get from the Philippines,” he told Fox News.
As debate over low teacher salaries makes its way across the country – there have been statewide protests in at least four states the past two months – this little-known U.S. program for foreign teachers is growing.
U.S. school districts are increasingly hiring teachers from abroad to fill a dearth of teacher in school districts across the country. They are brought in through a cultural exchange visa program offered by the U.S. State Department. Known as the J-1 visa, it is the ticket for teachers abroad to come to the U.S. and teach American students....
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These much needed teachers are often filling positions left open by American teachers who have had enough physical and mental abuse by the students of today.
Many Christian churches are approaching these same countries looking for new priests and nuns to replace those who are retiring.
Catholics priests are probably the biggest Polish export these days.
Teach Marxism?
How many of the students are actually Americans?
And there’s an increasing amount of American’s teaching abroad, go figure.
My nephew would tell me how, out of a one hour class, his teachers would spend 45+minutes breaking up fights or trying to get kids off their phones, before they could try to teach anything.
The kids are always right and always the victim, no matter how disruptive, disrespectful or violent they are. The parents are always right and their kids are always the victim, no matter how disruptive, disrespectful or violent they are.
Just look at Broward Cty for an example of what goes on. If I’m not mistaken, a court decision makes it mandatory for school systems to “educate(house)” even the most troublesome kids. If that is the case, I want to ask, Why? Why do we have to pay for this kid to destroy the school experience, for others, even though they have no intention of EVER doing the right thing. School to jail to prison. I can understand paying taxes for the prisons, but not for ungrateful, disrespectful, violent kids. Put them on the street where they belong. No sense in wasting money on them.
Point being, Who in the F*ck would want to be a teacher these days? There are lots of examples of teacher resignation letters and they all say, pretty much the same thing. And the majority of all of them have nothing to do with pay.
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-teacher-resignation-letters-bleak-picture.html
Yeah, how many foreign teachers do we need if they are not paid to come here and educate foreigners?
This is the height of irony.
In my town in NJ, I’d guess less than 1/2 the student population is American - while 90%+ of the taxpayers ARE Americans.
This “low teacher pay” issue is fake news at its worst; here in NJ our teachers are in the top five highest paid in the states, and they are our upper middle class (working 180 6.5 hour days).
Thanks, GraceG!
Salaries aren’t beggaring school districts. It’s pensions and health bennies.
The Trump State dept. is still pushing Cheap Labor Express Crap .
We have foreign Invaders teaching American history now!
Trump needs to stop ALL these Foreign Invader programs .
Shut down that evil State Dept.
I am calling my congressman and the White House and contacting Laura Ingrahm show.
This is a Fall of the Roman Empire level dangerous .
Foreigners are teachers!
I had a Greek ninth grade teacher ex-underground resistance fighter against the communist who never let up on his praise of HIS new country.
Here in NJ it is salaries as well; the union work rules set up an environment where diploma mills award degrees “online” which bump up salaries (regardless of whether or not the subject matter is even related to the recipient’s job), and some districts bestow “longevity bonuses” on teachers with seniority - the Asbury Park Press publicizes our teachers’ salaries, and plenty make 6 figures for half a year’s work - not even full work days.
The death knell for these districts (especially in NJ) is that American taxpayers are fleeing the costs, especially those associated with “schooling” foreign children.
Which is why the Classical education went the way of the dodo.
It’s unsustainable.
Now even Fox is adopting the media’s ‘cold open’ cliche.
‘Joe Smith woke up on a Tuesday and warmed up his truck.....’
They bury the lede constantly now in favor of Appeal to Emotion.
We don’t care what the names of these chancers are. We have an absolute glut of teachers most of whom can’t be sacked or laid off due to militant unions.
Overcrowded schools should be made uncrowded by mandating online education. No bullying, no free meals, no risk of mass shootings, no subtle PC indoctrination, no expensive bus network.
One teacher can address 40 or more students. No noise, no interruptions, no distractions, no fire drills, assemblies, announcements, birthday parties or other nonsense.
What’s that? People rely on schools as free babysitting? They don’t want their kids at home while they lounge about, drink, take drugs, watch trash TV, play video games, and have promiscuous sex to produce more feral brats? EXACTLY.
Junior already has an iPad or a laptop. Plant him at the kitchen table, have him log into class and concentrate. The school day can be cut down to 6 hrs max with no loss of or even a net increase in instructional time.
And, most important, we don’t need more Banana Boat Billies to apply for citizenship under the rubric of ‘helping’ public schools.
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