A recession bound USA offers probably more opportunities for enrichment than our small country the Philippines. Sad but there are tens of thousands of teachers from the Philippines without work. I remember a conversation I had with the Filipino Couple we had met on the hotel in Thailand a couple of years back. They had two house helps who graduated as Education Majors , or even the feature in a GMA documentary of a Domestic Helper working in Hong Kong who also graduated with a degree in education, or I could go on and on. The problem is not how many teachers our country has but that the best are leaving to educate the young ones of another country. A country that could at least pay them a higher percentage of what they really are worth. That’s modernday international trade for you. Welcome to the Philippines the No Exporter of Human Resources.<\/p>\n
Filipino teachers continue to fly to US for higher pay
\nBy Cynthia Balana
\nPhilippine Daily Inquirer
\nFirst Posted 17:51:00 08\/28\/2008
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\nMANILA, Philippines\u2014More and more competent Filipino teachers are flocking to the United States where they are paid more, according to the Philippine Embassy in Washington.
\nThe embassy, in a statement, said that only last week, 93 Filipino teachers arrived in the US and were welcomed by Philippine Ambassador to Washington Willy Gaa.
\nThe new arrivals attended orientation seminars organized by the embassy where they were also given \u201cpractical advice\u201d to ease their transition into a new teaching environment.
\nThe 93 teachers will be teaching special education classes, focusing on Mathematics, Science and English subjects in public schools in Prince George\u2019s County in Maryland.
\nGaa said the new recruits followed a group of 115 teachers who were also welcomed by the embassy last July.
\nThe first batch of Filipino teachers moved to Maryland in 2005. As of the fall of 2006, 400 Filipino teachers were already in Baltimore City alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recession bound USA offers probably more opportunities for enrichment than our small country the Philippines. Sad but there are tens of thousands of teachers from the Philippines without work. I remember a conversation I had with the Filipino Couple we had met on the hotel in Thailand a couple of years back. They had … <\/p>\n