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Oklahoma schools are bringing in teachers from Mexico to fill classrooms as the state struggles with teacher shortage (wtfdetective.blog)

submitted 1 year ago by MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 109 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So let me get this straight, the MAGA fucks went around and forced teachers to either comply with not teaching "woke" or get fired... So the teachers quit or got fired. Then ICE was tasked with removing brown people. But NOW they are trucking brown people in to replace teachers?

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[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That's part of it but they've been having teacher shortages for a long time, mostly due to the fact they pay teachers almost nothing. Why would a teacher work for $30k in Pryor, OK when they could make twice that in Texas? Oklahoma is a shitty state in general so there's nothing to make up for the fact that the pay is so low.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I went to a protest at the Oklahoma Capitol over teacher pay. In 1988.

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago*

But NOW they are trucking brown people in to replace teachers?

And they'll have to pay a $100k H1B fee for each of them, only to watch them get kidnapped by ICE and deported to Ghana or who knows where.

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[+] alexc@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 43 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Nobody that makes food that good can be awful. Man I love Mexican food.

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[+] alexc@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] miked@piefed.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I found this to be true in almost anyplace I have traveled. Try to learn a few common words and be polite. If the locals know English they will switch to that because it makes things faster.

The only exception I can think of is Puerto Rico outside of the tourist zones. They acted like jaded New Yorkers when I couldn't speak fluent Spanish.

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[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Half of them probably were jaded (ex-)New Yorkers

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[–] miked@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago

I met a few ex-NYers that lived/worked in PR. A couple of them were very jaded.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Were I forced to only eat one style of cuisine for the rest of my life, Mexican it is.

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

I'd eat American so I can die faster and end it all.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 12 points 1 year ago

And smart and educated

We hire most of our top engineers from Mexico these days. Comparable to Indian talent, but in the Americas timezones and way way harder working than the overpriced talent in the USA

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 year ago

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Bringing Mexicans to a red state?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

This just in, those teachers have been abducted, kept in sweltering cages for three weeks and then sent to Uganda.

More teachers from Mexico are being requested.

[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Or you know, maybe pay our teachers at least a living wage if not a competitive one....

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The teachers arrive on H-1B visas and are provided with housing to ease their transition.

lol, not for long. Oklahoma ready to pay 100k each to apply for that visa?

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[–] Mocheeze@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago*

That order went into effect like 20 hours ago. So they gotta bribe Trump if they want to avoid that fee so it can fall under the discretionary enforcement clause.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

lol

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[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

How long before ICE attacks?

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

And ice is carrying them out for indoctrination of Americans.