As students return to classrooms this fall, at least one state is turning to an unusual solution to keep schools running. In Oklahoma, where a severe teacher shortage has made it difficult to fully staff classrooms, educators from Mexico are being brought in to help meet the demand. These teachers, coming from regions like Puebla, Mexico, are joining Santa Fe…
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
I went to a protest at the Oklahoma Capitol over teacher pay. In 1988.
For more context, I work in Washington state and make 108k. I’m not near the top of the pay scale.