Re: Getting Math specialized in NV

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Kinda weird, I just had an interview last week and was called by a
vice principal and he wanted me now...said he had 3 openings for a
high school math teacher now.

Was he not telling the truth? I was unable to take it because I am
under contract in my home state, but will be looking to come out
there next school year.

Later,

On 1/17/12, Let me guess u think there is a "shortage of math
teachers"s wrote:
> What, did you hear there was a shortage of math teachers in Clark
> County lol?
>
> No, that is the LIE they tell to make the fertile soil that
> allows them to hire scab teachers and create a cheap and
> compliant labor pool. Baltimore City and Prince George County
> and many other dysfunctional large urban school districts do the
> same thing.
>
> Read this article about CCSD and that should give you an idea
> what is going on. If you want to work for CCSD, I suggest you go
> become a Filipino citizen first--that's your best chance to get
> hired there.
>
> http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Oct-14-Fri-
> 2005/opinion/3812688.html
>
> "EDITORIAL: Foreign teachers struggling?
>
> Hiring of 'facilitators' highlights hypocrisy
>
> This summer, the Clark County School District filled 69 of its
> hundreds of teaching vacancies with foreign instructors.
> Administrators said an extreme shortage of qualified applicants
> intensified their annual hiring crisis and prompted them to
> recruit abroad.
>
> These same administrators rejected applications from hundreds of
> local residents, among them educated professionals and
> scientists, retired military officers and former teachers with
> excellent subject knowledge and leadership skills. These Clark
> County taxpayers, committed to their communities and eager to
> help the fast- growing district in its time of need, were told
> they simply didn't have the necessary experience and training to
> lead a classroom. They were told they would need to enroll at a
> local education college if they expected to be successful
> teachers.
>
> The foreign teachers were more qualified, concerned parents were
> assured, and would do a better job.
>
> Not even two months into the new school year, it's apparent that
> these foreign teachers were not at all prepared for their new
> assignments. The school district is advertising internally for
> two "facilitators" to help the foreign teachers -- 49 Filipinos,
> 14 Spaniards and six Canadians -- develop instructional
> strategies and classroom management techniques.
>
> "Any facilitator position is for the purpose of providing
> support, training and resources to the teachers of the
> district," said Karyn Wright, the school district's director of
> teacher development. In other words, to teach them how to do
> their jobs.
>
> The district employs five facilitators to help teachers new to
> Clark County. Because the nation's fifth-largest public school
> system hires about 2,000 teachers every year, one facilitator is
> available for every 400 or so new teachers.
>
> But these 69 foreign teachers need two facilitators all to
> themselves. The district wants applicants for these new
> positions to have at least five years of experience, so the
> salaries and benefits paid to them will cost at least $100,000
> per year.
>
> Clark County taxpayers should be furious. The education
> establishment will defend the bureaucratic barriers that keep
> qualified, motivated American citizens out of the teaching
> profession, yet will spend six figures to keep underprepared
> foreigners at the helm of our children's classrooms? Meanwhile,
> hundreds of local residents who were denied full-time teaching
> positions are working as long-term substitute teachers -- for
> significantly less pay, no stability and no benefits.
>
> If the school district is willing to hire facilitators to tutor
> these foreigners on the basics of teaching, wouldn't it have
> been easier and cheaper to put qualified local citizens in
these
> jobs and provide them with the same special assistance -- if it
> was needed at all?
>
> The Clark County School District's experiment with foreign
> teachers is a practical and public relations failure that should
> not be repeated. Residents must implore their School Board
> trustees, state lawmakers and representatives on the State Board
> of Education to slash the red tape responsible for the valley's
> teacher "shortage." The education of area children depends on
> it."
>

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