Thread: Nursing and Teaching Are Jobs Americans Won't Do?

Nursing and Teaching are Jobs Americans Won't Do?

By Amanda Downs, February 26, 2009
Edited by Jessica Vaughan.

Lost in the debate over H-1B visas - which are typically portrayed as going mainly to high-tech or computer programming workers - is the fact that certain American colleges, universities, and medical facilities are also heavy users of this program. According to a searchable list of H-1B employers recently posted on Computer World magazine’s web site, a number of U.S. educational and health care institutions each sponsored hundreds of guest workers in 2008. Using this database, we identified 300 universities and 318 colleges that were approved for a total of 5,755 foreign workers. In addition we identified 465 public school systems, approved for 1,522 workers. Finally, we found 379 hospitals, and 948 health or medical employers who hired a combined 4,787 workers.

The H-1B program allows an employer to hire a foreign worker on a "temporaryâ€

I know it was right in black and white in our paper......they wanted bi-lingual teachers......but they must be hispanic as well. Skill or anything else wasn't considered....it was "demographic balance". LOL Like to know how you can be a bi-lingual advanced math teacher and only speak Spanish. But we have one!

This is absolutely discriminatory! So many Americans speak an other language at home, taught to them by their parents or grandparents: Chinese, Polish, German, etc.
It just shows the swarms of Hispanics that have invaded (that don't speak English and won't assimilate), pop out anchor babies who also are not exposed to English and, of course, we have to mollycoddle these folks over the legal Chinese or European immigrant having the same language problems.
Years ago, the Lee Co. FL school district decided to publish a guide for parents to help their children with their homework: in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole. If the parents don't speak English or are illiterate in their native languages, how can they help a child?

Originally Posted by crazybird

I know it was right in black and white in our paper......they wanted bi-lingual teachers......but they must be hispanic as well. Skill or anything else wasn't considered....it was "demographic balance". LOL Like to know how you can be a bi-lingual advanced math teacher and only speak Spanish. But we have one!

Sounds like unlawful discrimination according to ethnicity.

THIS IS ALL JUST BULL CRAP TO INTEGRATE US WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD....

Nowhere in the above article are "Hispanics" or any other specific linguistic, ethnic, or racial group mentioned.

I am a registered nurse who has done travel nursing in hospitals staffed by far too many foreign nurses. They are impossible to understand or communicate with for staff, patients and physicians. Their training has been mainly substandard and do not understand the high tech testings, or the implications before and after these tests, or the advanced treatments used here in the States. They had a sullen attitude and did not let us know when they did not understand a treatment or what to look for, making patient care nothing but dangerous.

If the hospitals did not collude to hold down nurses' pay, there would not be a shortage of either nursing teachers or graduate nurses. However, the work is difficult and demanding, you cannot work that hard to retire from the job and even when you do there are no benefits to longevity. The experienced nurse makes very little more than the new grad.

This is not an occupation safe for foreign workers. Telephone orders, no physicians at night, direct patient care without interpreters all require a good command of language and knowledge of patient care in the US.

If your hospital employs foreign nurses, bring your own with you should you need care.

Little surprise here. In most school districts, the top administration are all paid $150+ with superintendents of some of our school districts making $350 to $400K +. There is simply not enough money allocated to budgets for salaries any more to keep paying teachers and giving top level administrators more money. So what better solution, hire foreign teacher who will work for half the money and claim you just can't get American teachers to do the job. Now we can free up money to pay our top administrators even more. Greed like this is what is tearing this country apart.