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I decided to look into the matter. Here's what I found: Last school year, DISD hired 107 foreign educators, and 84, or 79 percent, were still around through the end of November. An even further look back shows that of 310 foreign educators hired from 2004-2007, just 37 were no longer with DISD at the end of last year. Any thoughts on those numbers? To see where DISD got its foreign teachers from last school year, click here.
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I received a call last week from someone who was adamant that educators being brought to this country by DISD are spending just a few weeks in the district before moving on with their new visas. |
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Comments
Posted by Mark @ 4:29 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2008
With this issue resolved, we can move on to the issue of how DISD spells Chile.
Posted by Kent Fischer @ 4:34 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2008
You mean they weren't recruited from the waitstaff at the Chili's To Go in Euless?
I'd also like to know when Puerto Rico became a country.
Posted by Marie @ 5:59 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2008
I just wish they could find ones with accents that aren't so thick...so I could actually understand them.
How do district employees that can spell Hinojosa misspell Chile??? The latter seems much easier.
Posted by Danny @ 7:18 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2008
Did anybody else notice that 6 foreign teachers came from the country of "Chili"
I hope this administrator doesnt teach ord oversee geography class.hxk5
Posted by Steve @ 7:57 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2008
I always admire people that have an accent; that reminds me they speak one more foreign language than I do.
Also, where is Columbia? Is it maybe Colombia?
Posted by Rick @ 8:00 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2008
Okay, Puerto Rico is a US territory, but that would mean that grouping didn't need visas, right?
The number of hires that moved on isn't that high. I wonder whether they moved on or moved home.
Posted by Marie @ 10:39 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2008
Steve-I don't mind accents as long as they aren't trying to teach our future how to speak English...when no one can understand THEM. These are the teachers that are supposed to teach the students part of the time in Spanish and part of the time in English.
Posted by Bob @ 8:55 AM Tue, Feb 12, 2008
There are qualified, certified bilingual teachers in the area, but DISD won't hire them because they are the "wrong" ethnic background.
Posted by Mary @ 12:16 PM Tue, Feb 12, 2008
Puerto Rico had an autonomous government very briefly in the 1880s, but then, the United States invaded the island and has been calling the shots there ever since.
And no, people from Puerto Rico don't need visas because since 1917, they have been granted U.S. citizenship. Of course, with that has come the privilege of being used as testing grounds for U.S. Navy weapons (Vieques). Since they don't actually have representatives in Congress, they don’t have much choice.