Remember: in recent years there has been a call to recruit U.S.
Armed Forces personnel to fill teaching vacancies (especially in math
and science) all over the USA after their terms of service have been
fulfilled.
As we know too well, however, in light of the Iraq War the Neocon
chickenhawks who truly control the Pentagon have not only institutde a
"stop-loss" program in which military members' enlistments are
involuntarily extended, but they've even resorted to calling
prior-service personnel, some in their 60's, to active duty. Moreover,
the Pentagon has floated the idea of not only drafting women if a
draft is reinstated but of putting them in combat.
In light ot that, it seems unlikely that U.S. troops loking forward
to teaching careers after they exit the military (if they're ever
allowed to exit, that is) will face stiff competition in the form of
hordes of foreigners who actually by that time wil have accrued
several years of seniority, as well as competition from newer foreign
arrivals from the Third World only too happy to accept whatever
they're offered, as it will unquestioningly be many times what they
could have ever hoped to earn in their home countries.
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:06:24 -0600, "Iconoclast"
<Iconoclast@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>The invasion of the job snatchers continues.
>
>http://www.vdare.com/
>
>"School districts all over the United States are actively recruiting
foreign
>teachers for our schools. In this case, Filipino math and science
teachers
>on H-1B visas have just arrived in Nevada.
>
>I have talked to many engineers and programmers that have been unable to
get
>teaching jobs in math and science, despite the fact that they went back
to
>school to get education degrees. Despite the growing number of desperate
>unemployed high-tech workers states like Nevada still claim there is a
>shortage of these types of teachers. This is just another cruel insult to
>the growing number of highly educated professionals that can't find
>meaningful work."
>
>And when Sanchez says that recruitment of foreign teachers is going on
>nationwide, he isn't kidding.
>
> In 2003, Arizona educators traveled to New Delhi for teachers even
>though the local Scottsdale Unified School District cut 175 jobs during
the
>same period.[Teachers Recruited from India, Pat Kossan, Arizona Republic,
>March 22, 2003]
>
> In June 2004, the New York Department of Education, crying
"shortage,"
>added 200 additional teachers from Jamaica to its staff. The state
offered
>two additional bonuses: free legal advice so that they could convert
their
>visas into permanent residency status and free tem****ary housing.
>
>
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