Brilliant solution to budget problems!
[I get it: it is a lot easier to deal with budget problems by importing teachers from across the globe, than it is to convince the tax paying public that teachers should be paid decent wages. Just wonderful! -Thomas]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=127564
America calling: Techies out, Teachers in
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2003 10:16:19 PM ]
WASHINGTON: Last week Garima Malhotra was teaching at the PKR Jain Secondary Public School in Ambala, Haryana. This week, she will begin instructing at Greenwood High School, Greenwood, Mississippi. She arrived in the United States on Friday, unpacked over the weekend in a new apartment the school had rented for her, and went to work on Monday. No, she did not begin teaching; there was lot of paperwork to be completed so she sat in the classes of other teachers to absorb the atmosphere.
“So different, but it looks very nice.I am very nervous,” she said in a telephone interview from the school. “I think it will take little time to adjust.”
Malhotra, 27, is among the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of teachers being imported from India to meet a critical shortage of instructors in the US that according to one estimate will touch 700,000 over the next three years.
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