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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why the budget is paying for their housing expenses.[/quote]

This is how the Filipino teachers throughout the US are contracted.[/quote]

I'm sorry but how is this fair? Do other teacher recruits receive these benefits?[/quote]

No. Not if they're hired from anywhere else in the U.S [/quote]

Clearly neither of you have taught outside the US. Housing is a standard benefit for foreign teachers. I taught in Central Europe before I taught for MCPS. The company I contract with negotiated housing for us. A few friends have taught in the UAE. Their benefits included housing and a driver. I have friends whose kids taught in East Asia. They all got housing and free meals.

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When I taught in the public schools in Japan, they provided my housing and paid half the rent!   Here it is hard to even find housing or get a credit card without a credit history.[/quote]

Most of those people work for private or international schools.  I know people who do this but they work for the international schools. I know two people who worked in Spain as teachers, worked in China (where they made the most $), and the UAE.  Every one of them worked for a private school.

I worked internationally for non profits.  My flight was paid for I was given a few days in a hotel then give a couple hundred or a thousand dollars and meant to find my own housing before my first paycheck. Sometimes if you received a small housing allowance but that never fully covered rent and was considered part of your benefit because the salary was so low (less than an MCPS teacher).

If we lived in a compound then you were paid less $.  Only in Afghanistan was I paid more and lived on a compound but it was because I received a little more danger pay.

If MCPs pays for their housing it should come out of their salary.  What will it do for the morale of US teachers if people from overseas get the same salary (which is worth a lot more overseas) and free housing?  [/quote]

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