New special Ed teachers from Philippines

[Anonymous]

Any update on how the foreign teachers are doing now that we are a month into the school year? I assume they are experiencing massive culture shock. The US K-12 educational system is its own universe. I don’t know any other country that is like the US in terms of k-12. Very lax discipline, no enforced dress code, parents yell at teachers, etc

[Anonymous]

Media should report

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Media should report

Because any smart teacher is going to talk to the media about what she thinks of her new work environment and students. Hopefully the new teachers are fine. MCPS has a lot of vacancies in this area, and it's good they made efforts to get qualified experienced teachers even if they're from another country.

[Anonymous]

Wishing them the best but it will take at least a year to get up to speed

[Anonymous]

I can't speak for teaching, but nurses who come here from the Philippines sometimes are trained by their schools on how to work in America, since many of them enter the program hoping to work in the USA.

[Anonymous]

Has America churned, burned, and harassed all of our own human capital out of the profession that we have to outsource now? This will not make teaching more desirable but now we can open our dirty American secrets up to the international community about how dysfunction, predatory, and pathetic our education system is. Good luck teachers. Don't let the admin bastards get you down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has America churned, burned, and harassed all of our own human capital out of the profession that we have to outsource now? This will not make teaching more desirable but now we can open our dirty American secrets up to the international community about how dysfunction, predatory, and pathetic our education system is. Good luck teachers. Don't let the admin bastards get you down.

Correct.

The public education budget sucks. There are no resources. This already causes teacher stress. Then on top of this vicious parents attack teachers for not providing those resources that do not exist. This causes teachers to quit. It’s happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has America churned, burned, and harassed all of our own human capital out of the profession that we have to outsource now? This will not make teaching more desirable but now we can open our dirty American secrets up to the international community about how dysfunction, predatory, and pathetic our education system is. Good luck teachers. Don't let the admin bastards get you down.

Pretty much.

Prince Georges County also have been using teachers from the Philippines where the Post published an article about it several years ago:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/caught-in-the-middle-foreign-teachers-in-pr-georges-fight-to-stay-in-america/2011/04/14/AF9OPZ9F_story.html

(it might be stuck behind a paywall, sometimes I can view the article and other times I get the pop up to sign in/subscribe)

From what I recall it was pretty similar conditions. ie a bunch of single teachers living together in an apartment with dorm like conditions.

Then you have those programs like Teach For America, which takes US college grads with non education related degrees, I think put them through a training program and then place them in a school in an area where teachers are needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has America churned, burned, and harassed all of our own human capital out of the profession that we have to outsource now? This will not make teaching more desirable but now we can open our dirty American secrets up to the international community about how dysfunction, predatory, and pathetic our education system is. Good luck teachers. Don't let the admin bastards get you down.

Um, it's already out, PP. Look at some of the industries that employ majority non-US born and/or bred human capital.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't expect any kind of update in the media. The Filipino teachers are not going to bite the hand that feeds them. And even if it's not great here, it's probably still better than the environment they're coming from.

[Anonymous]

I am in PGCPS, middle school. PGCPS partnered with Spain to bring teachers over and MCPS partnered with the Philippines. The PGCPS teachers that came from Spain, at the school I work at, are struggling. I talked to one just yesterday and she said she goes home and cry every day. I felt so bad for her. She said that they did not have behavior problems over there. She said that over here, you can not even teach because you have to deal with behaviors. She said she rather be a waitress. There is no help for them like the county promised them. A lot of them have VERY thick accents that makes it hard for the students to understand when they are taught a lesson. A lot of times she butchers certain words or use the wrong terminology which confuses the students a lot. I see the way the students treat her and honestly, it is disgusting. Most parents would be mortified if they knew. They are not all singles like someone else mentioned. We actually have a lot of married couples from Spain that teach in the county. There is just too many barriers for them. They end up being babysitters instead of teachers. The school system sucks people. I have taught in it for 10 years. It is bad, real bad. Please, sit in on your childs classes. I say it every time I get on here. Sit in and see what it is like. They are not learning. They are not thriving.

[Anonymous]

I spoke with one the other day. She was so impressed by MCPS and thought it was AMAZING!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I spoke with one the other day. She was so impressed by MCPS and thought it was AMAZING!!

That's great and I hope she learns a lot from her visit, but she shouldn't be displacing primary staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am in PGCPS, middle school. PGCPS partnered with Spain to bring teachers over and MCPS partnered with the Philippines. The PGCPS teachers that came from Spain, at the school I work at, are struggling. I talked to one just yesterday and she said she goes home and cry every day. I felt so bad for her. She said that they did not have behavior problems over there. She said that over here, you can not even teach because you have to deal with behaviors. She said she rather be a waitress. There is no help for them like the county promised them. A lot of them have VERY thick accents that makes it hard for the students to understand when they are taught a lesson. A lot of times she butchers certain words or use the wrong terminology which confuses the students a lot. I see the way the students treat her and honestly, it is disgusting. Most parents would be mortified if they knew. They are not all singles like someone else mentioned. We actually have a lot of married couples from Spain that teach in the county. There is just too many barriers for them. They end up being babysitters instead of teachers. The school system sucks people. I have taught in it for 10 years. It is bad, real bad. Please, sit in on your childs classes. I say it every time I get on here. Sit in and see what it is like. They are not learning. They are not thriving.

I have a Filipino friend at PGCPS who came here for this program. She was miserable. The amount of disrespect that she encountered was nothing she has experienced before. The kids in the Philippines are raised to be respectful towards elders, their teachers, etc. She somehow was able to move to MCPS and seems happier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has America churned, burned, and harassed all of our own human capital out of the profession that we have to outsource now? This will not make teaching more desirable but now we can open our dirty American secrets up to the international community about how dysfunction, predatory, and pathetic our education system is. Good luck teachers. Don't let the admin bastards get you down.

Basically, yes. But it’s always been common for immigrants to do the low level work.