Used and abused, Teachers recruited to work in New York cry foul

[malaise]

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110327/lead/lead1.html
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Thousands of Caribbean teachers who were lured to the United States with promises of better-paying jobs, improved educational opportunities, housing assistance, and the path to permanent residency are crying foul, claiming that they are victims of victimisation.

Some have staged public rallies since the start of the month to air their grouses and have since formed an alliance with an American lobby and will take their case to the deputy mayor of New York tomorrow, accompanied by Congresswoman Yvette Clarke.

Jamaicans, Bahamians, Trinidadians, Grenadians, St Lucians, Dominicans - all recruited by New York City Schools, some from as far back as 2001 - are yet to receive promises of permanent residency. They say they have had no support from the Department of Education (DOE) in a report tagged 'Broken Promises' that has sparked a firestorm in the United States.

"We have been classified as unskilled workers and are treated as indentured servants. How is this possible when we were chosen because we were the best and brightest our countries had to offer? This is an egregious situation, and we are demanding redress from the city, state, federal, and international levels," chairman of the International Association of Educators (IAE), Judith Hall, told The Sunday Gleaner.
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What a mess

[n2doc]

1. Suckers

Welcome to the American Dream- A dream in which you have no future! :sarcasm:

[Tippy]

2. K&R...Looks to me like the wealthy wanted better educated servants...

[druidity33]

3. Is this how

we'll replace our Union teachers? Yes, and just one of the MANY ways...

:(


K&R.

[malaise]

6. 100% correct and then

violate the 'imports' rights the way the teachers and their unions were violated.

[Zephie]

4. Indentured servitude is right... Are we really going back to this age?

Soon it will be outright buying and selling of humans. How long until our textbooks are changed to remove the freeing of slaves, calling it liberal propaganda?

[Jackpine Radical]

5. We will never return to slavery.

Much cheaper to lure people in & abuse them without all the expenses of ownership.

[malaise]

7. Particularly when the trickle down model

means they can't survive as teachers in their own countries. I remember when teachers owned homes and cars - now they become certified to migrate.

[xchrom]

8. recommend

[zbdent]

9. Let's see ... let's take a troubled company, hire you to turn it around (in one year)

and make its debts go away, and turn a huge profit ...

and your salary and benefits total about $7 an hour.

You think anybody would go for that? Essentially, that's what RWers are asking of teachers ...

They have to take all the crap that was absorbed by students from possibly bad teachers, and the students who are probably unwilling to put any effort into the learning process (come on, did you really like going to school when you were a kid? How many of these people complaining about the "overpaid teachers" attended school because they really wanted to be there instead of out playing in the yard or driving their nice car around?) and make them into honor roll students.

(and then, the "teachers pets" are attacked and beat up after school and actually being smart is frowned upon by the bullies)

And what thanks do the teachers get? Angry politicians blaming them for being in a school where nobody wants to be ... and being forced to take pay cuts, to boot.

[malaise]

10. It's frightening

I never thought I'd live to see the day when teachers were attacked by politicians.

[conspirator]

11. I didn't know the outsourcing of education started as early as 2001

The next wave of slave teachers will probably come from india and china