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Evelyn Espina has never been to Baldwin County, or to the United States, for that matter." e7 x$ S: E* w9 J
7 W$ o. [1 I% h/ X" X hBut this summer, Espina will be one of 16 teachers leaving her home and family in the Philippines to teach in the Baldwin County Public Schools.8 W8 u3 O" V Q, ^, X1 g
- F% A9 }' u w: W5 `Though other school systems have talked about doing so, Baldwin County is the first public school system in Alabama to send recruiters halfway around the world and hire teachers from a foreign country, officials said.
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9 q- ]4 _4 E$ O# T; F2 Q+ Q5 ?3 b( IHiring the Filipinos is a way to be "proactive" rather than "reactive," they said. Bringing in teachers from a foreign country is a short-term fix to a long-term problem. |
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发表于 2007-7-17 14:05:12