Wow, even teaching jobs are being "outsourced"

[TuborgP]

Originally Posted by user_id

Unions or whoever may fight it, but its not going to matter in the long run. These systems are already being used at the university level and in that environment they will become more and more widespread, its only a matter of time before it starts to trickle down to secondary and than perhaps primary education. Private schools should be much more willing to consider using these systems.

Unions can fight but the reality is that we are running out of tax dollars and local/state government have to run balanced budgets. I am with you 100% but the resistance to is great but the resistance to greater taxation if becoming even greater.

[JBoughton]

Originally Posted by user_id

Unions or whoever may fight it, but its not going to matter in the long run. These systems are already being used at the university level and in that environment they will become more and more widespread, its only a matter of time before it starts to trickle down to secondary and than perhaps primary education. Private schools should be much more willing to consider using these systems.

Private schools "should" but don't. So maybe there's another reason why these programs aren't being adopted, other than the "evil unions".

I'm more suspicious that many of these technology-based programs are motivated more by the company's motivation to make money than the educational value they're producing. Administrators who are in charge of the purse strings see a way to possibly save money for the district in a way that could also make money for the ed tech folks. But private schools know that if the ed tech programs are garbage, fewer parents will be willing to pay to send their kids to their school.

Maybe the teachers just might make a difference that the technology can't.

[princesasabia]

The nursing profession has a number of Filipinos. Im tired of companies giving our jobs to foreigners.

[bluebelt1234]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Our foreign teachers are paid at scale for degree, many have MD certification and are filling slots in Math and Science where there are few US candidates.

There is a growing number of unemployed American math and science teachers. A friend of mine was a math teacher and she is currently unemployed. She is now taking classes to switch careers. Science teaching jobs are getting harder to come by for many American teachers. Here in IN I know several unemployed science teachers. Schools are just importing teachers because they do not want to give tenure or pay their teachers a decent wage.