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]

If idiocy were flammable, California would spontaneously combust.

And it would be bright enough to light the night sky for months.

[twigs]

Filipino RNs speak English - but with an accent or dialect making it near-impossible for Americans to understand!

My 17-year-old daughter gave blood for the first time this summer and was stuck by a Filipino nurse who could not fully communicate in English with his patient. And he did a lousy job. The needle hurt her terribly and she was bruised for days. She's going to try again later this month, and if it goes the same way, the Red Cross will have lost a life-long blood donor.

[twigs]

erroneous and contemptuous libel.

Not true. See post 22. Maybe that is not true of all Filipinos, but my observation is the same the other poster. That poster is not in error and is certainly not libelous.

[Red Jones]

the teachers don't deserve to be mis-treated just because the politicians have decided to do this type of thing in the 'high-tech' sector. People are being imported to do general labor, agriculture work, teaching, nursing, doctoring, programming, accounting, book-keeping, engineering, chief executive officer, chief financial officer and other job categories. Our government is facilitating it. It is all pernicious.

[Mr. Thorne]

Oh, yeah. The teacher's union guy was OBNOXIOUS. "The parents are unfit to teach because they're not certified by (us)."

Of course, our CERTIFIED teachers can't teach teenagers who the vice president is, or when the civil war was, but PRAISE THE NAMELESS OMNIPRESENCE WHO MIGHT EXIST, BUT DARE NOT BE MENTIONED ON GOVERNMENT TIME, those yoots will be able to socialize well with their peers.

And to put condoms on bananas, that's also important.

It's all a matter of priorities, see...

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[KneelBeforeZod]

those worms just want the butt-in-the-seat money they get for every day a student is there.

Thats why they are fighting charter schools and vouchers.

[Redbob]

I love it; this has [Lack of] Gray [Matter] Davis pitting one little special-interest group against another!

Wonder which one he's going to stab in the back?

[John O]

the teachers don't deserve to be mis-treated just because the politicians have decided to do this type of thing in the 'high-tech' sector. People are being imported to do general labor, agriculture work, teaching, nursing, doctoring, programming, accounting, book-keeping, engineering, chief executive officer, chief financial officer and other job categories.

I wonder if the NEA is re-considering their cheerleading of the 40 Million plus people that have been murdered in abortuaries since 1973. Seems that some of those poor souls would have grown up to be teachers

I figure anything that causes the NEA pain and agony has got to be good.

God Save America (Please)

[Mr. Thorne]

Dead on, big man, dead on.

[mafree]

Edumacasion ping!

[ET(end tyranny)]

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

Ha! Their population is growing, but its growing in the US after they illegally cross our borders.

[swarthyguy]

This story is good for a laugh, if nothing else. When i first heard about importing teachers over a year ago, my first thought was how are they going to handle discipline; not a priority for US teachers, but in foreign schools, you don't mess with the teachers.

And of course, some of them got screwed by the employment agencies who make more money off each individual contract than the teachers probably do.

--->Indian teachers flee wild west
PANCHALEE THAKUR

TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 02, 2002 09:22:12 PM ]

Four teachers from Bangalore had left for the US last year to join American schools. Within six months three of them returned. Three teachers from Davangere were also on the same flight. Their American dream ended in two weeks.


This year 40 teachers left for the US around July and their predecessors say it could be just a few months before several of them return. It's becoming an annual ritual for recruitment agents in US and England to come to India for qualified school teachers. But teachers from here find the American classroom environment and students too tough to handle.


Shashikala KV, a teacher with 10 years experience, found the offer made by a Cleveland, Ohio, school last year too good to resist. She knew American students would be quite a handful but decided to take up the challenge nevertheless. She returned to Bangalore in six months.


"Teaching in Cleveland was not challenging at all. Here children are so well-informed that we have to go prepared for every class. There children go to school just to while away time. Many of them came from broken homes and had severe behavioural problems," says this maths teacher. Shashikala has now rejoined her earlier school, Sri Kumaran Children's Home on Kanakpura Road.


There were 52 teachers on the flight that Shashikala and three other teachers from Bangalore had taken. They were on their way to different American cities, like Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Some of them had horror stories to relate to their friends later.


One teacher had long hair and her students didn't approve of it. So one day they pinned her down and chopped it short. Another teacher was taking the staircase to the classroom and two boys poured a mug of beer on her. Though the school administration is generally cooperative, teachers were expected to handle such trouble on their own.


Anita Menon, a biology teacher with a doctorate degree, also fell for the offer that was made to her. "Children would be sitting with their legs propped up on the desk and chewing gum and eating in the classroom. I was in charge of the room and had to clean it after they messed it up. Instead of them wishing me, I had to wish them `good morning' and `good afternoon' everyday. The indiscipline was too much to handle," she says. Anita is now on the guest faculty of a nursing college in Bangalore.


The other Bangalore teacher who returned has taken up a teaching job in Mangalore.


School teachers in the country are poorly paid and offers in England and US easily attract them. In Bangalore, a teacher with eight-10 years' experience gets only around Rs 5,000. In America, she would make around $3,000 a month. "Initially it sounded very good but only after reaching there did we realise that we had to pay up a lot for tax, retirement benefits, etc. We had paid around Rs 3 lakh to the agent. We paid a part of it here and the rest was cut from our pay. What finally came into our hands was not good enough," Anita remarks.

[swarthyguy]

These Indian teachers aren't complaining about the food.

BTW, that's why NewOrleans and the south is so great; three types of hot sauce at every table in every dive.

I remember a Boston waitress telling me no hot sauce, but we got black pepper for the chowdah while looking at me like i had three heads!

[Dog Gone]

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.

LOL, read that sentence slowly and see if you think the reporter needs to take a remedial english class.

Maybe we need MORE foreign teachers here. The home-grown ones we have are turning out reporters who write like this one.

[swarthyguy]

Some of the Filipino teachers, using emergency credentials, have taken the place of American instructors, but several of the Filipino teachers are not working, despite being paid their salary.

A little better....

[breakem]

The Filipinos are generally humble, polite, and thankful. They will not make good militant union members.

[AM2000]

LOL.. I think I'm the only desi alive who dislikes spicy food. Every other I know asks for hot sauce with everything.. Me, I devour ketchup..