Posted on 10/03/2025 12:25:49 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Milwaukee Public Schools announced in September that it would stop hiring new international teachers to help fill desperately needed empty positions.
The change comes after the Trump administration announced it is overhauling the H-1B visa program, which MPS uses to fill the jobs. The H-1B program is designed to help U.S. employers hire international applicants to work in specialized industries like tech, education and engineering. The visa is limited to about three years and can be renewed.
Among the changes is a hike in the fee for new applications to $100,000. Previously, it cost an employer around $3,000 to hire an employee from abroad.
MPS has relied on more than 200 international teachers hired each year to help fill teaching vacancies. The district has previously hired teachers from Jamaica, Colombia, Ghana, Nigeria and Spain, among many other countries.
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Hmmmmm....I wonder what teacher’s unions have to say about American teachers now being in higher demand. Or perhaps the unions will toe their Dim party’s lines anyway.
How can the US not have teachers?
Why was the government of Milwaukee hiring international teachers at all?!?
The unions are communist and want to see the destruction of the country.
Just imagine the accents that poor Milwaukee kids are being asked to decipher.
Because indentured H-1B imports took their jobs?
Especially the math students.
So are they trying to say that Americans won’t take those jobs?
Keep ‘em coming (the articles, I mean).
Yep.
I couldn’t believe it when I read that Trump was looking to limit international undergrads. It’s the international grad students doubling as TAs who really make life tough (and take American seats).
When I was in college in the seventies, suddenly the American professors quit school and went into industry. Especially government related jobs that required citizenship. One told me the pay was several times his university salary. (We were working together at Honeywell, and he’d been one of my teachers in college just a year before.) The foreign teachers were hired because they were available at a fraction of the pay. They sucked because the culture is so different. The idea of an Indian or Pakistani is they don’t want you to know what they know as that knowledge is their status.
And traumatize the American students in class because none of the poor kids understand what they’re saying when foreigners are supposedly teaching.
Trying to get the word out.
Exactly.
Pro-tip — the supply of job seekers is saturated. So if you can’t find job seekers who are already in the US, then the problem is either (1) you don’t pay enough, or (2) no one wants to work for you. Given that it’s Minneapolis public schools, I suspect it’s the latter.
>>Why was the government of Milwaukee hiring international teachers at all?!?
Probably because few American were willing to live in Milwaukee, for minimal wages.
With so many highly qualified teachers graduating from American colleges why is there a need for international teachers?
/sarc
I don’t understand how any teacher could stomach the current crop of kids with their attitudes.
A problem of long-standing in colleges with foreign graduate assistants teaching lower-level courses. My memory of a Chinese grad student teaching a required American History after 1865 course is still with me over 50 years later. I spent a long time trying to decipher his pronunciation of “manifest destiny” & “social Darwinism” in the early part of the course. I was a kid from small-town Oklahoma who had very little interaction with any foreign accent.
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