Thread: Salt Lake City Tribune. Another breakdown in our system.

This is now going on in several states. I was discussing this over the dinner table and my husband put all of this into the Bush Perspective very quickly. Here it is. If major corporations can profit from the Mexico job pool why not our school districts. They can teach the immigrants English on our tax payers dollars and pay them less. WHY NOT??????? THE BUSH PERSPECTIVE!!!!!!!!!!

Guest-instructor program


Mexican teachers to buttress local schools
They will help Spanish speakers do better in school; no Utahn is being deprived of a job
By Roxana Orellana
The Salt Lake Tribune

Article Last Updated: 06/11/2007 01:33:27 AM MDT

At least a dozen teachers from Mexico are expected to arrive in Utah this August to help with the state's growing population of English language learners and its teacher shortage.
Human resource representatives from Granite, Davis, Tooele and Salt Lake school districts traveled to Mexico City last week to meet with 50 preselected applicants seeking teaching positions in Utah.
The job placements were created by an agreement forged by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. during his 2005 visit to Mexico.
The arrangement is also intended to develop a better understanding of both countries' educational systems, history and culture while helping Spanish-speaking students in Utah do better in school.
Richard Gomez, coordinator in the state's Office of Educational Equity, said that due to the state's teacher shortage, no Utahn is being deprived of a job. Gomez has been working with all parties involved to recruit the Mexican teachers. "It has been a long time coming," he said.
The agreement, known as the Memorandum of Understanding on Education, was signed last week by the Utah State Office of Education and is scheduled to be signed by Mexican consulate officials in Salt Lake City on Monday before being sent south to Mexico.
Mexican officials were notified last month to begin interviewing interested teachers. But Utah administrators have the final say on which
teachers will fill the jobs.
District staffers arrived in Mexico City June 5 and conducted interviews for three days. Mike Fraser, executive director of human resources at Granite School District and one of those conducting the interviews, said he was impressed with the applicants' qualifications and English proficiency.
"We are very happy. We've had some great success," Fraser said. "What is best about this is they've got proven teaching experience and, more than anything, they're fluent in Spanish."
At some Granite schools, 30 to 40 percent of the students are Spanish speakers, Fraser said, so having qualified Spanish-speaking teachers will be beneficial.
"The ultimate goal is to make sure we have enough teachers and find teachers who are going to meet the needs of our risk populations," Fraser said.
Fraser also referred to the impact of Utah's teacher shortage, which means some districts started the last school year with substitutes filling teaching positions. "This is not going to solve our teacher shortage but this is going to be one way to work on it," he said.
The Utah State Office of Education will work with the Consulate of Mexico and the Mexico Secretariat of Public Education throughout the process, which will include visa acquisitions.
Larry Shumway, assistant superintendent in the Office of Education, said the teachers will fill needs in the participating districts. "We've been working on it for about a year," Shumway said. "We have it [Mexico] as a neighbor and we have lots of students who have connections to Mexico. And it just seems like a good idea."
Once hired, the teachers will arrive in Utah in August and will spend a weeklong orientation with the Office of Education that will include finding housing and placing them in their appropriate districts.
According to Fraser, four will be hired as secondary teachers to work in "hard to fill" areas such as math, physics and chemistry. The others will go to elementary school and dual-immersion programs.
Similar visiting teacher programs have been used in other states, including California, Texas and New Mexico, he said.

The arrangement is also intended to develop a better understanding of both countries' educational systems, history and culture while helping Spanish-speaking students in Utah do better in school.

That's what this is all about, teaching Mexican kids Mexican history, culture and heritage so they will grow up to remain loyal to Mexico first and foremost. If these anchor baby and illegal alien kids want to live in America, which is a crime in the first place if you ask me, they should at least be required to learn our curriculum, language and history.

What are they going to teach them, how to hot wire cars, forge documents, fill out welfare applications? If Mexico is so concerned about the education of their citizen's kids while in school how about the Mexican Govt. forking over the money to pay for their schooling. But noooo, they could never do that. Why? Because people might demand they also pay for their welfare, healthcare, jail time, etc.

We need to get this out to the public. This needs to stop. What is the best way to get this out? It is happening in Calif, Texas, Utah and Arizonia.

Paige

Why not make teachers still in college take spanish to help them out? Does anyone think that the teacher shortage may have something to do with the extra burden of knowing that your students may not even comprehend what you are saying?I think this invasion of illegals has far more complications than we realize.